Vorburger.ch AI Git Memory aifiles

Like everyone else, I am increasingly using AI tools.

Today I finally got around to start setting up what will be the (public) “memory” of my personal future AI agents that will work for me.

Being a developer, I don’t want this to be hidden away in some proprietary black box, but instead want to be able to inspect, edit, and version control it.

I also don’t want it be specific to any one AI tool or provider, but instead be portable and reusable across all of them; whether that’s the (awesome!) Gemini CLI, Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI’s, or my very own Enola.dev.

While project specific instructions belong into AGENTS.md files of the respective projects, such as e.g. my 🐝 Bee project’s AI Agents configuration, I want certain other AI memory that is specific to myself to be shared across all my projects.

As but one small example, when I talk to my AI about “MariaDB4j” it must know that this is my own open source project, who’s canonical GitHub repo is at https://github.com/MariaDB4j/MariaDB4j (and not https://github.com/vorburger/MariaDB4j, which is just my own fork).

So I created https://github.com/enola-dev/vorburger-ai-assistant for this purpose; and it’s git-repos.md to capture the information of the example above.

And with this change, my Gemini CLI installation now automatically pulls this information into my AI agents’ memory. (I’ll later do something similar for other AI tools I use, too.)

This new repo is basically the AI memory equivalent of my Linux dotfiles!

What shall we call such Git repos? How about everyone’s aifiles? 😃