Lore: Repurposing Git Commit Messages as Structured Knowledge Protocol for AI Coding Agents
arXiv 2603.15566·high signal
Proposes treating git commit history as a first-class machine-readable knowledge substrate for AI coding agents, formalizing commit messages as context anchors that preserve institutional knowledge as AI increasingly both produces and consumes code. As AI-written commits lack semantic trails, the knowledge loss compounds run-over-run. Directly actionable for teams using Claude Code — structured commits become persistent agent memory across sessions.