Memory Corals

Any folder can be rendered as a coral. A memory coral is a folder that has also been given the rules for growing like one — so that an agent working in it leaves memory behind in a shape you can read.

Right-click a folder and choose Seed as coral. Liefwork writes a Growth Charter.md into it — the coral's growth rules — plus pointer files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md) that redirect each agent's own auto-load to the Charter. That Charter, together with your own opening prompt, tells any agent working in that tree how to record what it does — each exchange as liefs, each thread as a branch, each branch rolled up into its meristem.

The dialog discloses everything it is about to write before it writes it, and offers an optional logging hook if you want turns recorded automatically. Nothing is hidden and nothing is compulsory.

Undo seeding reverses it exactly — the scaffold is archived, and anything that grew in the meantime stays where it is. Seeding is a decision you can take back.

What you get for it: memory that lives in your own files, in your own vault, in a structure you can navigate without an agent's help. Not a database, not embeddings, not a service. Folders and notes, arranged so that the summary is always above the detail.

The full picture of why this shape works is on The Liefwork AI Memory System, and How It Compares to other Memory Systems sets it against the alternatives.

Next: Agent Terminals.