Building a permanent memory folder for AI with Codex and Astra
The author gave GPT-6 Astra a memory folder and an AGENTS.md rule; after 19 days it held 165,000 records and cut a task from an hour to 6 minutes, with a six-line config to copy.
i honestly don't get why people still let their AI forget them the week GPT-6 Astra came out i gave it a folder and one rule: "write down everything you learn. reread it before every job" the glass ball is that folder 19 days later. 165,000 leaves: 41,000 files, 118,000 calls, 6,000 notes to itself. one root, my first sentence the idea is simple: you stop explaining yourself. it starts every job already knowing your lease, your bank and your printer, and gets faster every time what Astra does with that folder: → reads it before it types a word. sorting my receipts: first time an hour, fourth time 6 minutes → asks a question and keeps working while it waits. ignore it, my mac beeps → runs a 2am routine on every note marked "later". a monitor port dead for a year got fixed on a saturday night, 4-minute flash → writes itself rules. after a subscription charged me twice: "check the bank export before anything renews". 14 mornings in a row since → hands boring reading to cheaper helpers, keeps the thinking. a full evening costs about 10% of my weekly limit at first i thought the picture was a glitch. it's just 19 days of not forgetting copy this today: > open codex, pick GPT-6 Astra, effort on high. the $20 plan is enough > make a folder called memory with a file called AGENTS.md. codex reads that file first, every time > paste one line: "before every task read this folder. after every task write what you learned and what broke" > drop in anything about your life: the lease, a bank export, the manual for the thing that never worked > give it one job tonight and end with: "remember" > tomorrow, ask it something you only ever said once one folder and six lines. after that you never explain yourself twice the catch: the folder gets fat and eats the weekly limit. every sunday it prunes dead branches, 20 minutes the people doing this don't post about it. their Astra already knows their landlord and their bank. yours meets you as a stranger every morning every chat you close tonight is a branch you'll never get back my rules file, link below bookmark this before you close another chat
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