`.mental/` — Project Continuity

Leading words: derive, do not maintain; task boundary; exact handoff; decisions explain git; policy-aware privacy; optional, never required.

.mental/ exists to make a later human or agent session continue without reconstructing intent from chat history. Git records what changed. .mental/ records the small amount git cannot explain: current focus, consequential decisions and their rationale, durable repository-specific knowledge, and the next exact action.

Write for the user returning in two weeks. Be concise, factual, and explicit about observed versus inferred information.