context engineering docs for agentic engineering - plans, research, etc SHOULD NOT be stored in version control: A good docs management syst…

context engineering docs for agentic engineering - plans, research, etc SHOULD NOT be stored in version control: A good docs management system keeps them: > outside your repo > accesible to agent via FS tools > discoverable by agent (even just maybe via sysprompt append) > persisted / recoverable / archivable > collaborative (shareable, commentable) why keep them outside the core VCS repo? 1) they don't need merge semantics, just linear history is plenty in 99.9% of cases 2) if they are committed that means they can live on branches, get lost when you change branches, you have to remember where they were, etc etc wdyt?

Source: Harrison Chase (X) | 2026-06-22