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Use Yanzi

For Execs

Problem: AI-assisted work loses state between sessions. Teams repeat context, miss decisions, and struggle to understand what changed.

Impact: Yanzi gives teams a local record of captures, checkpoints, and handoff notes so project state is easier to review and recover.

For Engineers

Install:

brew install chuxorg/yanzi/yanzi

Basic workflow:

yanzi init demo
yanzi capture --author "Ada" --prompt "What changed?" --response "Updated the API client."
yanzi checkpoint create --summary "API client update complete"
yanzi rehydrate --dry-run

For Builders

Example chat loop:

  1. Create or select a project.
  2. Capture the prompt and the AI response.
  3. Add shared documents with bootstrap from .yanzi/bootstrap.yaml.
  4. Use the message channel for handoff notes.

Example:

yanzi project create vibe-loop
yanzi project use vibe-loop
yanzi bootstrap
yanzi message send --to claude --from operator --channel handoff --content "Continue from the latest checkpoint."
yanzi message pull --to claude --channel handoff

That keeps the project context and handoff notes in one place while the code work continues outside Yanzi.

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