"I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgiving quality to the unsure." — Bette Davis
Context engineering for AI-assisted work. The foundation that makes everything else work.
This repo is the architecture documentation for Bette. For the installable plugin, go there.
/plugin marketplace add breethomas/bette
/plugin install bette@breethomas
Architecture docs explaining WHY Bette works the way it does:
- claude-md-architecture.md — Layered context: global → project → directory
- reference-file-design.md — One-line entries, deep context elsewhere
- memory-systems.md — What to persist, retrieval mechanics, compaction awareness, topic file patterns, the 200-line budget
- context-hygiene.md — Read for editing, delegate for reference, compaction mechanics, hard limits, strategic work profiles
- skill-architecture.md — Forked vs interactive, output routing
Plus annotated examples in examples/.
| Repo | Purpose |
|---|---|
| bette | The plugin. Install this. |
| bette-architect | How to architect — context engineering (you are here) |
| bette-think | How to think — PM frameworks |
| bette-work | How to work — quality gates and guardrails |
| bette-os | How to operate — daily PM workflows |
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The foundation. Everything else builds on this.