Why /bootstrap should be the first Command in every Agent session

After a 2.5 hour session you accidentally close your coding agent terminal mid session. The output is there, the commits are there, but something important is gone. That synergy that you spent hours to build up. You reopen the console and hope you two can start over, but it feels like now you are strangers. The agent is now " Somebody that you used to know. " No, this is not an intro of a light love novel, it's the usual experience with coding agents. Coding agents are stateless by design so each and every new session is a new beginning. The resume illusion Some agents have --resume functionality. Claude Code has it. Codex has it. Gemini CLI has it. It's useful, but it has limitations. --resume only replays the conversation log. It doesn't restore the loaded and curated mental model - the understanding of your project's topology, constraints, and current state that the agent built up over those 2.5 hours. Resume gives you only the transcript. Not the understanding. Two primitives I alr