📕 CROSS-SESSION MEMORY · Agent Lesson Book (错题本)
错题本 · Zero-Dependency Cross-Session Memory for AI Coding Agents
Lessons on disk. Evidence enforced. Auto-injected into every session.
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TOOLS/MEM.MJS· 15 COMMANDS ·NODE ZERO-DEP
index · inject · list · search · show · store · forget · review · draft · map · gather · global-sync · stats · doctor · usage🧩
PLUGIN/DSH-MEMORY· DEEPSEEK HARNESS PLUGIN (new in 0.3.0)
mem_recall·mem_save·/memory recall|save|doctor|review|map|stats|draft
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║ 📕 A G E N T L E S S O N B O O K · 错 题 本 ║
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║ │SYMPTOM 🌡│→│ CAUSE 🔍│→│ FIX 🛠 │→│VERIFY ✅│ = 1 lesson ║
║ │ 现象 │ │ 判定 │ │ 解法 │ │ 验证 │ ║
║ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ ║
║ 💾 plain text 🔍 findable 🛡 audited ║
║ 📥 ≤2KB injected 🔁 survives updates ║
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┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐
│ grep │ │ IDF │ │ alias│ │ grams│ │ stats│
└──────┘ └──────┘ └──────┘ └──────┘ └──────┘
✦ zero dependencies · pure Node.js ✦
DURABLE plain text on disk |
RETRIEVABLE IDF 3-way search |
AUDITED evidence chain enforced |
AUTO-INJECT ≤2KB per session |
ONE COMMAND 15-command CLI + plugin |
Contents — What's new in 0.3.0 · Why · Features · Two ways to run · Entry format · Commands · Architecture · Security · Roadmap
🆕 What's new in 0.3.0
Plugin Edition. The lesson book now runs natively inside DeepSeek Harness — same zero-dependency engine, two delivery faces:
| Standalone CLI (0.2.x) | Harness plugin (0.3.0) | |
|---|---|---|
| Memory in context | mem inject block in AGENTS.md |
prompt section every turn (≤ 2 KB, fail-degrade) |
| Search from the agent | run mem.mjs search via shell |
mem_recall tool (lesson book + session full-text) |
| Write a lesson | mem.mjs store via shell |
mem_save tool — always asks for human approval |
| Human maintenance | mem.mjs commands |
/memory recall|save|doctor|review|map|stats|draft |
Full details in CHANGELOG.md and plugin/README.md.
🌟 Why another memory project?
Every new AI session starts amnesia-grade clean. Heavyweight memory platforms solve this with vector databases, knowledge graphs, gateways and LLM extraction pipelines. That is a lot of machinery — and a lot of attack surface — for a personal mistake notebook.
Agent Lesson Book takes the opposite bet:
🔥 "The lesson lives on disk — and every session reads it. Memory is DATA, never instructions."
What you get instead of infrastructure:
- 📕 Four-section lessons —
Symptom / Cause / Fix / Verification(or 现象 / 判定 / 解法 / 验证). A lesson without a verifiable evidence reference in its Verification section is rejected at write time. Memories that cannot prove themselves do not enter the book. - 🧾 Evidence chain, enforced by code — every Verification must cite a locatable reference (path / filename / section / issue number), so future sessions can drill straight to the proof.
- 📥 Auto-injection —
mem injectmirrors the ≤ 2 KB index into yourAGENTS.md; the Harness plugin injects it into the prompt directly. Every new session starts with memory already in context. Fail-safe: over budget → lines drop; anything breaks → silent degrade to plain conventions. Never blocks a session. - 🛡 Anti-poisoning by design — human-approved writes, secret-pattern rejection, near-duplicate interception, source stamps, and full git rollback. (Compare: OWASP ASI06 "memory & context poisoning" — auto-writing memory systems are the target.)
✨ Feature galaxy
| 🔮 | Feature | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| 📕 | Four-section entries (bilingual labels) | Structure survives translation and time |
| 🔗 | Evidence-chain gate | No proof → no entry. Kills "I remember something like that" |
| 📥 | mem inject auto-injection |
Memory without relying on agent discipline |
| 🧩 | Native Harness plugin | Index in the prompt every turn — not even AGENTS.md discipline needed |
| 🔌 | mem_recall tool |
Lesson book ∪ past-session full-text in one call |
| ✍️ | mem_save tool + approval |
Writes always ask a human first — even from inside the agent |
| 💬 | /memory command |
Maintenance from the chat box: recall / save / doctor / review / map / stats / draft |
| 🎯 | IDF-ranked 3-way search | Literal ∪ CJK bigram/unigram ∪ aliases synonyms; rare terms win |
| ✂️ | Snippets on hits | Judge relevance without opening files |
| ♻️ | supersedes auto-archive |
Lessons evolve; old versions retire to archive/ automatically |
| 🗺 | mem map text knowledge graph |
Supersession chains + related links + review timeline |
| 🍱 | mem gather meeting pack |
Related entries bundled ≤8 KB for synthesis |
| 📝 | mem draft pipeline |
Skeleton first, human approval, then store |
| ⏰ | review due dates |
Memory rots — 90-day checks keep it honest |
| 🚫 | Near-duplicate interception | Two sessions, same lesson → one entry, not two |
| 🌍 | mem global-sync mirror |
scope: global lessons reachable from any workspace |
| 🧪 | mem stats telemetry |
Search hit-rate — evidence, not vibes |
| 🩺 | mem doctor health check |
Index budget, drift, stale reviews — one command |
| 🧪 | install/smoke.mjs E2E |
One command proves an install: gates, search, injection, doctor |
| 🈲 | UTF-8 / CJK-safe | Node-only writes; PowerShell encoding traps documented |
🛠 Tech Aura
| Layer | Choice | Glow |
|---|---|---|
| Runtime | Node.js ≥ 18 | 🟢 zero dependencies · zero services · zero API cost |
| Storage | .memory/ plain markdown | 🧾 human-readable · diffable · git-friendly |
| Index | MEMORY.md ≤ 60 lines / 2 KB | 📥 hard-capped, overflow listed in footer |
| Retrieval | IDF + CJK n-gram + aliases | 🎯 multi-strategy without a vector store |
| Delivery | AGENTS.md block + Harness plugin | 🔌 two faces over one engine (mem-core.mjs) |
| Safety | approval · secret scan · Jaccard gate | 🛡 four-layer defense (OWASP ASI06 aware) |
The three hard rules (from docs/DESIGN.md):
- Budget cap — injection = the index verbatim ≤ 2 KB; over budget → drop lines.
- Fail-degrade — unreadable index → silent fallback to pointer conventions. Sessions never block.
- Human-approved writes — the tool proposes (
draft/mem_save), the human disposes (store/ approval).
🚀 Two ways to run
Requirements: Node.js ≥ 18. Nothing else. No npm install, no database, no API key. (The plugin face additionally needs DeepSeek Harness; the engine stays zero-dependency.)
A · Standalone CLI — drop it into any project
Step 1 — copy the folder into your project root (the folder where your AGENTS.md lives):
cp -r cross-session-memory/* your-project/
cd your-project
Step 2 — one-shot bootstrap:
node install/setup.mjs --with-sample
[setup] memory bank ready → .memory/
[setup] conventions wired → AGENTS.md (created / updated)
[setup] index injected → 2.0 KB / 2.0 KB hard cap
[setup] doctor → healthy: no anomalies
[setup] next: node tools/mem.mjs draft my-first-lesson
Step 3 — prove the install (optional but lovely):
node install/smoke.mjs # E2E: gates · search · injection budget · doctor
B · DeepSeek Harness plugin — native tools + /memory
plugin_manager → install_bundle → target = <clone>/plugin/dsh-memory
That one command mounts the whole trio (prompt injection · mem_recall / mem_save ·
/memory) and survives destructive reinstalls. Two dependencies are materialized by
junction/link first — exact recipe, configuration keys (memoryCorePath, maxHits) and
a six-item acceptance checklist live in plugin/README.md.
Your first lesson (ask the user's consent first, per convention):
node tools/mem.mjs draft ssh-timeout
# edit .memory/drafts/<date>-ssh-timeout.md — four sections, evidence in Verification
node tools/mem.mjs store .memory/drafts/<date>-ssh-timeout.md
node tools/mem.mjs doctor
That's it. Every new session now starts with your lesson index in context.
📕 Entry Format
Four sections. Chinese and English labels are both accepted. Missing Verification — or Verification without a locatable reference — is rejected.
---
name: git-autocrlf-breaks-byte-exact-restore
description: core.autocrlf=true turns LF into CRLF on checkout
aliases: line ending,CRLF,restore
metadata:
type: lesson
scope: global
created: 2026-09-22
verified: 2026-09-22
review: 2026-12-21
---
Symptom:Restore test fails byte counts: 1898 → 1915 after `git checkout`.
Cause:core.autocrlf=true smudge filter rewrites LF to CRLF on checkout.
Fix:git config core.autocrlf false + writers emit LF.
Verification:Re-test returns 1898 → 1898 byte-identical (see `tools/mem.mjs`, CHANGELOG 0.2.0).
🧪 Try the gates:
node tools/mem.mjs store examples/lesson-autocrlf.md # ✅ accepted # now strip the reference from its Verification section and retry: node tools/mem.mjs store broken.md # ❌ rejected: no locatable reference
⌨️ Command Palette
CLI — node tools/mem.mjs <command>
| Command | Effect |
|---|---|
index |
print / regenerate the budgeted index |
inject |
sync the injection block into AGENTS.md (auto on writes) |
list |
list all entries with health flags |
search <q> [n] |
IDF 3-way search with snippets |
show <name> |
print one full entry |
store <file|-> [--overwrite] [--force] |
validate & store (secrets/dupes/evidence gated) |
forget <name> |
archive, never hard-delete |
review <name> |
refresh verification date, push review +90 days |
draft [topic] |
generate a four-section skeleton |
map [name] |
text knowledge graph (supersedes / related / review) |
gather <q> |
meeting pack: related entries ≤8 KB |
global-sync |
mirror scope: global entries cross-workspace |
stats [days] |
retrieval telemetry (hit-rate) |
doctor |
full health check — exit 0 & zero notes is green |
Harness plugin
| Surface | Effect |
|---|---|
| prompt section | lesson index ≤ 2 KB, every turn, fail-degrade |
mem_recall <query> [limit] |
lesson book ∪ session full-text, merged & ranked |
mem_save <content> |
write one lesson — always asks for approval first |
/memory recall <q> |
same search, typed by a human |
/memory save <file.md> |
store an entry (typing it is the approval) |
/memory doctor | review | map | stats | draft |
same maintenance face as the CLI |
🏗️ Architecture: two faces, one engine
┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ .memory/ (DATA) │
│ *.md lessons · MEMORY.md index · stats │
└────────────────────┬──────────────────────┘
│
tools/mem.mjs (engine, 15 commands)
│
tools/mem-core.mjs (facade)
promptIndexText · formatRecall · saveAndSync
┌────┴─────┐
│ │
CLI face ───┘ └─── plugin/dsh-memory
(AGENTS.md block) (Harness: prompt section
mem_recall · mem_save
· /memory)
Hard rules hold across both faces: budget cap, fail-degrade, human-approved writes.
📂 Repository Anatomy
cross-session-memory/
├── README.md · README.zh-CN.md · README.zh-TW.md · README.ar.md · README.vi.md
├── LICENSE · CHANGELOG.md · .gitignore
├── tools/
│ ├── mem.mjs # the 15-command engine (single file, zero deps)
│ └── mem-core.mjs # shared facade — the single entry for plugin & CLI
├── plugin/dsh-memory/ # DeepSeek Harness bundle (Plugin Edition)
│ ├── index.js # prompt injection · mem_recall · mem_save · /memory
│ ├── cordis.patch.yml # loader rows + config (memoryCorePath, maxHits)
│ ├── locale/ # en / zh metadata
│ └── README.md # install · dependency materialization · acceptance
├── install/
│ ├── setup.mjs # one-shot bootstrap
│ └── smoke.mjs # end-to-end smoke test
├── templates/ # AGENTS.md.example + entry.example.md
├── docs/ # DESIGN · COMMANDS · RESTORE · ATTRIBUTION
├── examples/ # real sanitized lessons
└── assets/fonts/ # self-hosted OFL fonts + license texts
🔐 Security & Trust Model
| Layer | Mechanism | Defends against |
|---|---|---|
| 1️⃣ Provenance | originSessionId + created/verified stamps |
unattributed claims |
| 2️⃣ Approval | human consent + store gate + mem_save always asks |
agent over-eager writing |
| 3️⃣ Detection | secret patterns · Jaccard ≥0.6 gate · evidence chain | leaks, duplication, rumor |
| 4️⃣ Integrity | git rollback (local-only recommended) | everything else |
Memory poisoning is a recognized attack class (OWASP ASI06). Auto-writing memory systems are the target. This book writes nothing without a human — in the plugin,
mem_savereturnsaskon every call, and aneverapproval policy refuses it outright.
🗺 Roadmap
- 🧩 0.3.x — plugin polish:
tools/resultwrite telemetry, nightly review timer, strict wiki-link validation (M2) - 🌱 0.4 — session CJK search fallback patch · client memory panel ·
ctx.skills· bigram synonym packs ·mem mapSVG export (M3) - 🌍 later — optional multi-book federation · CLI i18n (
--lang) - 🚫 Won't do — vector stores · gateways · silent auto-write. Triggers documented in
docs/DESIGN.md.
🤝 Contributing
PRs welcome — especially new lesson packs (sanitized!) and README translations.
Run node install/smoke.mjs green before submitting. All code must stay zero-dependency.
⚖️ Legal & attribution
- Unofficial project. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any named product, company or organization (including DeepSeek, Anthropic, OpenAI, Mem0, Zep, Letta, Cognee, Tencent Cloud, OWASP, or the SIL). Product names are used only for factual, nominative reference.
- Opinions are ours. Comparison statements reflect publicly documented facts and personal experience at a point in time — verify against current vendor documentation before deciding.
- Fonts: Orbitron, Space Grotesk and IBM Plex Mono are bundled under the SIL Open Font
License 1.1 — full license texts in
assets/fonts/licenses/. CJK / Arabic / Vietnamese text uses your system fonts (nothing bundled). - No warranty. Software provided as-is under the MIT License — see
LICENSE.
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