Sep 2026· Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Abstract
Copilot CLI Local Memory v1.1.2 — Citation and provenance This release makes the project's authorship, design history, and public release chronology explicit and machine-readable. It does not change the plugin's runtime behaviour. What changed Added CITATION.cff so GitHub, Zenodo, reference managers, and researchers can identify and cite the software consistently. Added DESIGN-AND-PROVENANCE.md to record the implemented design, public release chronology, and relationship to earlier Copilot memory proposals. Added Shankar Balakrishna to the MIT copyright notice. Linked the citation and provenance records from the README. Prepared the release for independent preservation through Zenodo and Software Heritage. The provenance document deliberately acknowledges earlier public proposals for persistent and local Copilot memory. The contribution recorded here is this project's concrete implementation: explicit save, search, and delete commands over plain local modular-instruction files, with deterministic search, optional file scopes, duplicate and common-secret detection, and no database or server. Verification All 11 automated tests pass. The Agent Plugins v1.0.0 manifest checks pass. CITATION.cff validates against the Citation File Format 1.2.0 schema. Runtime behaviour is unchanged from v1.1.1. Install or update copilot plugin install shankarnarayanb/copilot-cli-local-memory copilot --experimental Verify the plugin with /plugin list and /extensions manage. Full Changelog: https://github.com/shankarnarayanb/copilot-cli-local-memory/compare/v1.1.1...v1.1.2
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