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SmarterContext

Issue #002 · Sat, Jun 27, 2026
Your AI keeps forgetting what you told it. Learn to fix that.
Project context vs personal context — keep them separate
Your coding style and your company's rules are two different files. Mixing them is why the AI contradicts itself.
There are two layers of context and people jam them into one. Personal context is you — your voice, how terse you like answers, your preferred languages — and it follows you everywhere. Project context is this codebase / this client / this campaign and it changes per project. Keep them in separate files and compose them at session start. When something feels universal to you, it goes in personal; when it's true only here, it goes in project. This stops the AI from applying a client's banned-words list to your personal blog.
▸ The template
# ~/personal.md  (you, everywhere)
Voice: direct, dry, no hype.
Defaults: Python > everything, tabs over spaces.
Always: explain tradeoffs before recommending.

# ./project.md  (THIS repo only)
Client: Acme Health — HIPAA, no PII in logs ever.
Voice override: formal, third-person, cite sources.
Banned words: "revolutionary", "seamless".

# Session start, paste in order:
#   personal.md  THEN  project.md
# (project overrides personal on conflict)
▸ Level it up
New to this: Split your one big context into two: a 'me' file and a 'this project' file. Paste both, me first.
Vibe coder: Establish a rule: project context overrides personal context on any conflict, and write that rule at the top of the project file.
Advanced: Store personal context in a synced dotfile and pull project context from the repo itself; a wrapper script concatenates them in precedence order before every agent run.
Takeaway: Two layers, two files: personal follows you, project overrides it locally.
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