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<h1 class="project__title">ClosedTab</h1> <p class="project__lede">A shared record for human and agent teams: what you asked for, what the agent did, and what it understood the instruction to be.</p> <p class="case__go"><code class="case__cmd">$ npm i -g closedtab</code><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/closedtab">npm</a><a href="https://github.com/quarterback/closedtab">GitHub</a><a href="https://blog.ronbronson.com/closedtab-a-npm-shared-memory-for-you-and-your-ai-agents">Write-up</a></p> <!-- At a glance (3 November 2026) --> <dl class="glance"><div><dt>Problem</dt><dd>When you build fast with agents, the reasoning behind each decision disappears. A week later you can’t say what you asked for or what the agent did.</dd></div><div><dt>System</dt><dd>An npm CLI, Agent Skill and MCP server that write and score a record of each piece of agent work.</dd></div><div><dt>Mechanics</dt><dd>Each record has six parts: Intent, Action, Judgment, Deviation, Consequence and Change. <code>reconcile</code> checks a record against a machine trace and reports where they disagree.</dd></div><div><dt>Stack</dt><dd>Node.js on npm (0.5.0); <code>closedtab-mcp</code>; Agent Skill.</dd></div><div><dt>Result</dt><dd>Published on npm and required as the handoff record at Vloora.</dd></div></dl>
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