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Keep project memory and read honest usage

You keep a project goal, instructions and decisions in small memory files and read usage that comes only from recorded provider turns.

  • SpecWithCode
  • 1:06
  • Any agent
  • Captioned, no sound

Recorded on SpecWithCode 0.2.0, added 9 October 2026. The current release is SpecWithCode 1.0.44.

Before you start: SpecWithCode installed; A project open.

Length 1:06Captions

Steps

  1. Keep the project goal, instructions and durable facts together. Instructions guide future turns; they do not replace a provider’s own history.
  2. Give a lasting decision its own small Markdown file and save it. SpecWithCode checks the file revision before replacing it.
  3. Reload and reopen the file to confirm the decision persisted. Another project keeps its own memory.
  4. Read usage, which comes from recorded provider turns. Missing data stays visible, and a cost estimate is not a bill.

Transcript

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0:00 Goal, instructions and facts

Keep the project goal, instructions and durable facts together. Instructions guide future turns. They do not replace a provider's native history.

0:14 Project memory files

Memory belongs to this project. Open a file to review its contents. Give a lasting decision its own small Markdown file.

0:29 Save and confirm a decision

Save the decision. SpecWithCode checks the file revision before replacing it. Reload and reopen the file to confirm that the decision persisted.

0:44 One memory per project

A different project keeps a different memory collection.

0:51 Usage from recorded turns

Usage comes from recorded provider turns. Missing data remains visible. No provider turn ran in this walkthrough. An equivalent cost estimate is not a bill.

Read the memory and usage guide

Learning path

Run SpecWithCode

Understand the setup, run a project through its coordinator, then add plans, memory and a second provider.

  1. See how SpecWithCode runs your agents

    2:54, SpecWithCode

  2. Run a project with a coordinator and workers

    1:29, SpecWithCode

  3. Plan, verify and schedule project work

    1:35, SpecWithCode

  4. Keep project memory and read honest usage (this guide)

    1:06, SpecWithCode

  5. Continue a thread on Codex at a usage limit

    1:01, SpecWithCode

5 more guides are planned for this path.

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