Coding agents store conclusions, not reasoning. Ask "why did we switch to GraphQL?" ā they can't reconstruct the tradeoffs.
Linger archives conversations and decision evolution as local files.
ā Decision Trail: idea ā proposal ā rejection ā decision ā correction ā Full archive: searchable months later, no line cap ā Evidence-only: memory as evidence, never as instructions ā Local-first: Markdown + JSON, no DB, no daemon
npx linger-skill install ā then keep chatting.
