AI coding agents start every session with no memory of your system. In a multi-repo codebase, they can't trace flows across services.

Teams are building "meta-repos" — repos with no app code, just docs and tooling to orient agents across the whole system.

AI didn't invent the need for good docs. It made the penalty for missing them immediate.

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