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slug: repository-first-thinking
title: "Repository First Thinking"
summary: "Knowledge compounds only when it's preserved."
order: 6
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Knowledge compounds only when it's preserved.

Important ideas should graduate from conversations into durable artifacts that can be discovered, reused, and improved over time. A repository should become the canonical source of principles, skills, workflows, patterns, and decisions rather than allowing knowledge to disappear into chat history or individual memory.