Anti-patterns

Anti-pattern	Why it hurts	Do this instead
One giant STATE.md forever	Untrusted sludge; silent truncation	Split work state vs memory tiers
Auto-promote everything to durable	Fact poison	Verifier + human gate
Vector DB as day-one default	Ops weight before policy	Markdown + git first
No confidence tags	Hypotheses become law	observed / decided / hypothesis
Unlimited recall	Context death	Retrieval budget
Store secrets in memory files	Breach via repo	constraints deny-list + audit penalty
Memory without hygiene	Rot	Weekly hygiene loop
Silent truncation	Agent thinks it saw everything	Report dropped_count
Merging fleet audit into memory score	Confuses layers	Separate scores, cross-link