[gbro3n]

I've had a crack at this problem in Agent Kanban for VS Code (https://github.com/appsoftwareltd/vscode-agent-kanban). The core idea is that you converse with the agent in a markdown task file in a plan, todo, implement flow, and that I have found works really well for long running complex tasks, and I use this tool every day. But after a while, the agent just forgets to converse in the task file. The only way to get it to (mostly) reliably converse in the task file is to reference the task file and instructions in AGENTS.md. There is support for git work trees and skipping commits of the agents file so as not to pollute the file with the specific task info. There is also an option for working without work trees, but in this flow I had to add chat participant "refresh" commands to help the agent keep it's instructions fresh in context. It's a problem that I believe will slowly get better as better agents appear, and get cheaper to use, because general LLM capability is the key differentiator at the moment.