| Frequency | Placement | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Every task | Auto-loaded (L1) | Core principles, project identity |
| Every session | Session init | Current state, active plan |
| Per domain | Agent/skill prompt | Domain patterns, standards |
| Per decision | On-demand | Decision logs, lessons learned |
| Rarely | External | Vendor docs, API references |
| Layer | Bad (pointer only) | Good (motivating) |
|---|---|---|
| Metadata | "Handles PDF files" | "Extracts text, fills forms, merges documents -- 12 validated patterns for common failures" |
| SKILL.md | "See FORMS.md for details" | "Form filling has 3 failure modes that require specific handling. See FORMS.md" |
| Reference | (terminal) | (terminal) |
| Level | Speed | Size | Agent Analog |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1 Cache | Fastest | Smallest | Auto-loaded principles (CLAUDE.md) |
| L2 Cache | Fast | Medium | Session context (quickstart.md, active plan) |
| L3 Cache | Moderate | Larger | Domain knowledge (agent prompts, standards) |
| Main Memory | Slower | Large | Reference files (decisions, lessons, docs) |
| Disk | Slowest | Largest | External resources (MCP tools, web) |
| Approach | Framing | Reliability |
|---|---|---|
| Rule-based | "Read infrastructure-patterns.md before writing Terraform" | Agent may skip if confident, may not notice the instruction |
| Goal-aligned | "15 validated patterns exist that prevent failures you'd otherwise encounter" | Creates awareness of a gap, which drives retrieval |
| Factor | Human Analog | Agent Manifestation |
|---|---|---|
| Limited working memory | ~7 chunks (Miller, 1956) | Context window capacity |
| Session boundaries | Sleep resets executive state | Each session starts with no episodic memory |
| No introspection | Unconscious incompetence | Cannot "know what it doesn't know" |
| Decision fatigue | Ego depletion (Baumeister) | Every retrieval decision is a decision that might be skipped |
| Recency bias | Availability heuristic (Tversky & Kahneman) | Recently loaded context dominates |
todd-dsm
/ kernel-panic.c
Created
November 13, 2025 04:35
macbook flashed a fuchsia screen and rebooted - twice
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| ``` | |
| panic(cpu 0 caller 0xfffffe0024b36cf0): busy timeout[1], (60s): 'AppleAPFSMedia' (a,4020001) @IOService.cpp:5829 | |
| Debugger message: panic | |
| Memory ID: 0x6 | |
| OS release type: User | |
| OS version: 24G90 | |
| Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Mon Jul 14 11:30:29 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.140.69~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 | |
| Fileset Kernelcache UUID: 0843B4A77BE94220E9BFBC6024B71273 | |
| Kernel UUID: D013020A-F19B-3730-8283-F7E47107D27A | |
| Boot session UUID: 8B5D8AA0-0E37-4BF4-A2CA-0F2AFDBBAB59 |
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| ~/.config/rsync/backups 2>&1 | tee /tmp/backups.log | |
| Running LIVE backup | |
| Backing up special files: | |
| + IFS=, | |
| + read -r program source_path | |
| + [[ -z # backup random files and follow the format; $HOME is assumed ]] | |
| + [[ # backup random files and follow the format; $HOME is assumed = \#* ]] | |
| + continue |
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| .android* | |
| .appgatesdp* | |
| .atom/ | |
| # Include only .aws/{config,credentials}, exclude all else | |
| + /.aws/ | |
| - /.aws/cli | |
| - /.aws/sso | |
| .aws/sso/cache/ | |
| .bash_sessions/ | |
| .bun* |
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| # print.func example output | |
| # REF: https://gist.github.com/todd-dsm/17560775b7e5e4d22339885eeb276784 | |
| % ./template.sh | |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| Lets do some STUFF! | |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| Do thing... |
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