AI Project Memory OS
Stop losing context between AI sessions. A free, provider-independent Markdown + Git starter system for persistent project context and session recovery.
You are building something with an AI assistant. The chat hits its token limit, crashes, or you switch from one provider to another. The next session opens with "who are you? what's this project?" — and you paste the same context again, slightly differently, for the tenth time.
The fix is not a bigger context window. It is keeping the project's memory in the repository instead of in the chat, in plain Markdown any model can read.
- A lightweight, manual, open-source starter template — Markdown files, a documented read-order, and role playbooks you copy into your own repo
- Provider-independent — plain Markdown, no SDK, no API calls, no lock-in
- Free and MIT licensed, fully usable on its own with no paid product attached
- A hosted service, an app, or anything that runs
- An agent framework, orchestrator, or autonomous multi-agent system
- The internal development system we run today — that is separate and private
- Automatic. You keep the files current; nothing writes them for you
Clone the repo, copy the project_memory/ folder into your own project, and fill in two files describing how you work and what you have decided. Then start any new AI session by pointing it at the bootstrap file.
00_BOOTSTRAP.md — mission, rules, where things liveFOUNDER_OS.md — how you work and decideWorks with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any assistant that can read the files you paste or open — the method is plain Markdown, so nothing is provider-specific.
We would rather you know the trade-offs before you adopt it:
- It is manual. You update the files. Staleness is the main failure mode — a memory system nobody updates is worse than none.
- No enforcement. Nothing validates that an AI actually followed the read-order.
- Not multi-user. Concurrent edits are resolved by Git, not by the system.
- Best for solo builders and small teams keeping one project coherent over months.
Free, forever, no email required.
The whole system is a public MIT-licensed repository. Clone it, fork it, strip out what you do not need. There is no checkout, no upsell, and no paid tier of this resource.