Developer Uses AI Prompt to Auto-Generate Project Memory Files from a Repo
A developer tested an AI setup prompt on the repository behind his personal website, andrewdetwiler.com, which had 34 commits and no existing memory files for an AI agent. In a single session, the AI generated five structured markdown files — covering site rules, active work, past decisions, and notable gotchas — totalling around 90 lines. One standout output was an undocumented gotcha: a pre-commit hook that silently fails unless a specific git config command is run in a fresh clone, a fact buried in the repo that the developer had never explicitly recorded. The author cautions that the output represents orientation rather than deep understanding, and that repos with unclear histories may need a manual correction pass. The prompt is publicly available at buildwithamemory.com and is designed to work with any AI agent, storing outputs as plain markdown files directly in the project repository.
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