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A scratchpad that survives the session. Two in-process tools that write and read .rovecode/notes.md in the workspace.

What it does

notes_add {text, tag?} appends one dated line:

- 2026-09-05 [decision] the accent went two-tone because the single tone failed AA at normal size

• text is required, one sentence, at most 500 characters. Whitespace is collapsed.
• tag is optional, matches [a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,23}, and is lowercased. It exists so notes_list can filter — decision, gotcha, todo are the ones that get used.
• The file is created with a # notes heading on first write.

notes_list {tag?, last?} reads them back, newest last. last defaults to 50 and is clamped to 500. With no notes it says so rather than returning an empty block.

Where the file lives, and why there

/.rovecode/notes.md — with the repository, not with the plugin. The tools export is a factory that receives the plugin context and closes over cwd, so two projects keep two separate notebooks and neither follows you home. It is a plain markdown file: read it, edit it, commit it, or delete it.

Permissions

The two tools declare different kinds, and that is the whole permission story:

• notes_add is memory — the same class as the built-in todo_write, allowed by default.
• notes_list is read.

So a policy that already says something about memory or reads covers this plugin too, without a special case. Nothing here shells out or reaches the network.

Install

rovecode market install plugin:notes

Or from a checkout of this repository:

rovecode plugin add ./plugins/notes

It ships an entry module, so rovecode imports it in-process — the approval preview says so before anything is installed.