AI RESEARCH
Lore: Repurposing Git Commit Messages as a Structured Knowledge Protocol for AI Coding Agents
arXiv CS.AI
•
ArXi:2603.15566v1 Announce Type: cross As AI coding agents become both primary producers and consumers of source code, the software industry faces an accelerating loss of institutional knowledge. Each commit captures a code diff but discards the reasoning behind it - the constraints, rejected alternatives, and forward-looking context that shaped the decision. I term this discarded reasoning the Decision Shadow.