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# Record a failed approach First, in the same shell command as anything below, locate the script: ```bash ATTIC_JS=$(ls -d "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"/plugins/cache/attic/attic/*/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js "$HOME"/.agents/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js .agents/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1) ``` Argument: `$ARGUMENTS` (a title, or empty to use the last failed attempt). A failed approach is worth more than it looks. The next session will consider the same idea for the same reasons, and the record of why it did not work is what stops the second attempt from costing what the first one did. ## What to capture Four things, in this order. The third is the one that matters — an approach recorded without its reason just reads as defeatism and gets re-tried anyway. 1. **What was tried** — concretely enough to recognise the idea again. 2. **What happened** — the actual failure, error text copied verbatim. 3. **Why it failed** — the underlying reason, not the symptom. 4. **What to do instead**, if known. ## Recording it ```bash node "$ATTIC_JS" stash \ --slug <slug> --kind finding --type failed-approach \ --title "<what was tried>" \ --hook "<the approach, and the one-line reason it failed>" \ --files "<files that show why>" \ [--commands "<command that demonstrated the failure>"] \ [--confidence verified] \ --body-file <tmpfile> ``` `--type failed-approach` is what kee