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Introduction

Lore is a reasoning history system for code. It captures AI-assisted development sessions and links them to git commits, preserving the “why” behind code changes that git alone cannot capture.

The Problem

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When you use AI coding tools like Claude Code, Aider, or Gemini CLI, valuable context exists in the conversation:

  • The prompts you wrote to explain the problem
  • The approaches you tried and rejected
  • The decisions you made and why
  • The back-and-forth that led to the final code

Git captures what changed. Lore captures how and why it changed.

Use Cases

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  • Code review: See the AI conversation that produced a PR, not just the diff
  • Debugging: Understand why code was written a certain way
  • Knowledge transfer: When someone leaves, their AI conversations stay with the code
  • Learning: Study how problems were solved by browsing linked sessions
  • Search: Find that conversation where you solved a similar problem

How It Works

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  1. Capture: Lore reads session data from AI coding tools and stores it locally
  2. Link: Connect sessions to git commits (manually or via hooks)
  3. Query: Search, browse, and trace code back to conversations

All data stays on your machine. There is no cloud dependency.

Next Steps

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