TENET — Documentation

Search your project’s accumulated knowledge. Finds decisions, patterns, discoveries, and past work across all sessions.

Usage

tenet ask "why is the timeout 30s?"
tenet ask "what auth strategy did we choose?"
tenet ask "when did we last change the deployment config?"

How It Works

Query goes through BM25 search across all indexed memories
Results ranked by relevance (term frequency, document frequency, recency)
Top results shown with source, date, and relevance score

What It Searches

Journal entries — decisions, features, fixes, discoveries from every session
Knowledge docs — files in knowledge/ directory
Code headers — @purpose tags from source files
Manual memories — notes added via tenet_memory_add

Options

Flag	Description
`--type <type>`	Filter by type: decision, feature, fix, discovery
`--since <date>`	Only search entries after this date
`--limit <n>`	Max results (default: 10)

Example Output

Found 3 relevant memories:

[decision] 2026-02-14
  Increased timeout from 5s to 30s after hub crashes under load.

[revert] 2026-01-28
  Tried 10s timeout — caused cascade failures in webhook processing.

[discovery] 2026-01-15
  P99 latency spikes to 22s during batch payroll runs.

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