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# Restoring engineering context across coding sessions

Index engineering decisions and retrieve past session history when starting new programming tasks

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askDeveloper starts session
- ThenQuery session history database
- ResultSurface active context and decisions

When tackling complex software tasks across multiple work sessions, engineers frequently lose decision history and environment context. This workflow queries a database of past development notes and transcripts at the start of a session, restoring context on architectural choices, ongoing experiments, and active bugs.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

```
Query the session database whenever a new programming prompt is received. Search for relevant past notes, architectural decisions, and setup preferences tied to the current project directory. Present a concise recap of prior conclusions before modifying code or executing commands. Always ask for explicit user approval before deleting, archiving, or overwriting existing history logs.
```

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## Tools it uses

TerminalDatabaseNotes

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- developer-tools
- context
- terminal
- memory
- debugging

## Source

[Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426624)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-15

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-15 · Updated 2026-10-15 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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