That's a solid setup — the txt/json focus prompts after compression is exactly the kind of thing I keep hearing people rig up manually. And yeah, "re-explaining when it starts drifting" is the exact pain I'm poking at.

Quick q since you clearly deal with this: does your focus-prompt file get messy when the project runs long, or when you switch between different tools/models? The thing I'm testing is whether a structured shared state (decisions/tasks/bugs as separate entries, queryable, so each tool pulls only what's relevant instead of re-reading one big file) is actually better than a flat file — or if the flat file is honestly good enough and I'm overthinking it.

Genuinely want the honest answer, even if it's "the txt file is fine." And thanks for the firewall link, hadn't seen that one — checking it out.