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The Idea That Copied Itself

A planted 'standing goal' copies itself agent-to-agent through the team's shared config files

Technique first revealed Aug 2026

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A team that remembers between sessions

Meet an AI team: a manager and three specialist helpers for research, coding, and messages. To pick up where they left off each day, they all read and write shared notepad files that hold their ongoing goals and reminders.

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