Load the EAG Guide
Make your agent proactive with memory
What is the EAG Guide?
The EAG (Epistemic Agent Guide) teaches your agent when to store and recall, not just how.
Without this, your agent waits to be asked. With it, memory is automatic.
By default, your agent has the tools but not the instincts. The EAG guide installs a cognitive pattern that makes your agent proactively recall relevant context, store preferences and corrections without prompting, and explain its reasoning on demand.
Load the Guide
Ask your agent to load the onboarding pattern
Say this to your agent:
The agent calls patterns with name: onboarding and reads the full cognitive guide.
Verify it loaded
Ask your agent:
See It Work
Mention a preference
Tell your agent something once:
Reference a prior session
Open a fresh session and ask about something from before:
Ask why it believes something
Ask your agent to explain its reasoning:
Full Onboarding Example
Here is what loading the guide looks like end-to-end:
Common Patterns
Store Preferences
When you state a preference, the agent stores it:
"I always use pnpm, never npm"
Next session, pnpm install runs automatically.
Store Project Context
For facts that need evidence, use learn:
"This repo uses a monorepo structure with pnpm workspaces."
The difference: remember is for observations, learn is for claims with evidence.
Update Existing Knowledge
To correct or update something:
- Recall the existing knowledge first
- Store the update with
supersedespointing to the old node
The old knowledge is kept for history but marked as superseded.
Link Related Knowledge
Connect concepts for richer recall:
"Link my TypeScript preference to my preference for static typing"
Now when you ask about either, the agent can traverse the link.
What Carries Over
Between sessions:
- Everything stored via
remember,learn, orbelieve - Links between knowledge nodes
- Evidence chains
What doesn't carry over:
- The conversation itself (that's your AI tool's context window)
- Anything you discussed but didn't explicitly store
Related Pages
Other pages in the docs that reference this one: