wtf is devtrail?

devtrail is a command line tool that keeps track of a project's decisions and status in a single file, so anyone using AI chat tools does not have to re-explain the whole background of a project every time they start a new conversation. The idea is to solve a common frustration: losing track of where a project stands, or repeatedly summarizing past decisions to an AI assistant because it has no memory between sessions. The author describes it as different from tools that simply dump all your code into a text file for an AI to read. Instead, devtrail is meant to be a decision memory, meaning it specifically remembers what was decided, why it was decided, what is currently broken, and where work was left off. This context can then be pasted directly into any AI chat session to bring it up to speed. The tool is installed through pip, Python's package installer. Once installed, a person types short log entries using a devtrail command, and the tool automatically files each entry under a category based on keywords in the text. For example, a line mentioning an error gets filed under open issues, a line mentioning that something is done gets filed under a finished section, and a line describing a decision gets filed under decisions. Entries with no recognized keyword go into a general current status section. Notably, this keyword matching works in both English and Arabic, recognizing equivalent words in each language for the same categories. A separate command prints out the full accumulated project state so it can be copied into an AI conversation. The project is released under the MIT license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects, as long as the original copyright notice is kept.