Two Kinds of Memory

Description and use

Teams can quickly locate code and retrieve decision rationales using virage for semantic search and kms for curated decision storage.

Teams struggle to locate code and understand why it’s structured a certain way, leading to repeated searches and re‑decisions.

Teams can locate code in seconds and access documented rationale, reducing redundant searches and clarifying design intent.

1. Install virage and kms via npm or plugin marketplace.
2. Run virage init to create configuration.
3. Execute virage index to build a vector index of the repo.
4. Query code locations with virage query "how does authentication work?".
5. For explanations, run kms query "why is authentication split?" to retrieve captured decisions.
6. Review and update decisions in kms if missing or contradictory.

virage index finds all three in seconds — every file touching auth, ranked by relevance, whether or not "auth" shows up in a variable name.

kms query for "why" questions. They answer different questions, "where is this" and "why is it this way".