memory/general/

Long-term, topical knowledge about Justin's systems that needs to live alongside the codebase. Not a log. Not a journal. Not append-only.

What goes here

Stable, factual notes that an agent or script needs to know about the live setup and that aren't better expressed as code:

• Integration configurations (e.g., home-assistant.md)
• System contracts that aren't captured in the code itself
• Topic-per-file, edited freely as reality changes

What does NOT go here

• Logs / append-only streams → data/ (e.g. data/inbox-notes.md)
• Vision / narrative / personal thinking → Notion (LifeOS). Use /save-to-drive as interim if needed. See Forge vs Notion routing rule in MEMORY.md.
• Research dumps / one-time references → docs/research/
• Daily observations → memory/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md first; graduate here only when stable
• Tool registrations → ~/.claude/projects/-home-justinwieb-forge/memory/reference_*.md + MEMORY.md index entry

Rules

• No timestamps. No dated entries. No append-only patterns.
• Edit freely. If something changes, update the file, don't append a correction.
• One topic per file. Filename should match the topic (e.g. home-assistant.md).
• Only put things here once they are definitively known and decided.

Current files

File	Purpose
home-assistant.md	HA integration paths: REST API + Context API HA poller.