AICTX helps Codex, Claude, GitHub Copilot and other coding agents continue work across sessions by preserving the last useful execution state: active work, next actions, decisions, failures, validation evidence and repo context.
The continuity idea is not to add more hidden memory or dump more context into the prompt. AICTX keeps operational continuity inside the repo:
- active Work State and next action;
- execution summaries and handoffs;
- explicit decisions;
- known failures and resolved failure patterns;
- strategy hints from successful prior work;
- execution contracts and contract-compliance signals;
- optional RepoMap structural entry points;
- continuity quality signals for stale, missing, demoted, obsolete, or unverified context;
- read-only Task Context Packs for focused task-specific context;
- lifecycle diagnostics for incomplete or unfinalized sessions;
- optional Git-portable continuity for small teams.
It also makes continuity shared across agents.
Features
- Repo-local, inspectable and portable
- Work State: Preserves active task, hypothesis, files, next action, risks, and verification state
- Failure Memory: Stores observed command/test/build/type/lint failures as structured patterns
- RepoMap : Optional Tree-sitter structural map of files and symbols
- Strategy Memory: Reuses successful prior execution patterns
- Handoff / Decisions: Keeps operational summaries and explicit project decisions
- Cross-agent continuity: Stores continuity in the repository instead of one agent's chat history
- Visual: Generates .aictx/reports/continuity-view.md and .aictx/reports/continuity-map.mmd from repo-local continuity
- Continuity Quality: Scores repo-local continuity freshness and flags stale, missing, demoted, obsolete, or unverified context
- Task Context Pack: Compiles focused read-only context for a supplied goal through aictx prepare or aictx_prepare_task_context
- Lifecycle Diagnostics: Tracks resume, Work State writes, and finalize events as best-effort local diagnostics
- Contract Compliance: Audits first action, edit scope, validation, and structural alignment
- Resume capsule: Compiles continuity into one agent brief