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Living Architecture Docs as RAG-Like Context for AI Coding Agents

Two markdown files, updated in the same commit as the code, turn an AI coding agent from guessing at your codebase's intent into actually knowing it -- no vector database required. Here's the pattern, working, on this project.

Sep 21, 2026 By Vishnu Balachandran AI EngineeringDocumentationSystem DesignDeveloper Tools
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