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Use external systems to capture cognitive snapshots…
Use external systems to capture cognitive snapshots of interrupted tasks—the reasoning chain, held hypotheses, and working memory state—rather than just task content, to enable full context restoration.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Extended Cognition Thesis (distributed cognition), Generative Externalization (externalization is generative), and Working Memory Capacity Limit (working memory limits). This extends cognitive offloading from capturing 'what' (task lists) to capturing 'state' (mental context). AI enables this at a new level. Prescriptive and actionable.