Book and essays
The book gives the architecture and the decisions behind it. The papers below explain the memory method. Breadcrumbs supplies the practical files you can copy and adapt.
The book
A Practitioner's Field Guide to Building Better Information Systems, by Mr. Jovan Smith. A field guide for coordinators, advisors, analysts and program leaders who want to turn the spreadsheet everyone depends on into a system someone else can trust, run and improve.
Breadcrumbs is its free companion: checklists, templates and skills. You can use them without buying the book.
Papers and essays
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The full argument for token-efficient session continuity: short notes that point to decisions, sources and next steps. Includes five mechanisms, a case study, and the continuity protocol. The method needs a tool that reads the notes, so it does not create automatic memory.
Read the working paperPattern essay and research agenda
The broader frame for how people, AI systems and shared records can cooperate over time without losing custody or evidence. It is an agenda, not validated research.
Read the research agendaOperational essay
The applied half: what to log, what an agent may never decide alone, and how to prove afterward that a correction landed. It is one essay in the companion, not the whole companion.
Read the operational essayResearch connection
StaleToast is a separate research and repository library. Its Evidence Synthesis shows what the screened research collectively supports, contests and leaves unresolved, with every conclusion linked to its sources.