A month ago we added a card_token column to the users table so a background job could retry failed Pro charges. It lasted about two days. Storing card data in your own database drops you into PCI-DSS (the compliance standard that kicks in the moment card data touches your systems), so we pulled it and moved to Stripe-managed payment methods.
Last week the charges started failing again. New Claude Code session, no memory of any of that. Its plan? Add a card_token column to users and retry.
I don't really blame the agent. It had the context the first time and it was right. The problem is that context died when the session closed. That's the part I never see mentioned about building with agents: the code sticks around, the reasoning doesn't. People leave a trail without trying. A commit message, a PR comment, the Slack thread before it. Agents don't, and the prompt that explained everything is gone by morning.
So I built Selvedge to hold onto the reasoning.
What happened the second time
