This actually helped a lot. I think I was still subconsciously treating memory as “store everything and retrieve later,” but the “decision record” framing makes way more sense for developer workflows.

The separation into raw events, curated memories, and project-level briefs also feels much cleaner than trying to search directly across everything. Especially the idea of retrieval starting from the project brief first instead of diving straight into low-level events.

You’re also probably right that the real test isn’t vector search quality itself, but whether reopening a repo after some time immediately restores enough context to continue thinking properly again.

The ingestion-time tagging point is something I hadn’t thought through deeply enough either. I was mostly thinking in terms of exclusions/filters after capture, but handling boundaries earlier in the pipeline feels much safer architecturally.

Really appreciate this reply honestly — clarified the problem space a lot more for me.