hygiene

name	hygiene
description	Data-retention and memory-hygiene summarization. Compress one calendar day of source-table rows, or a cluster of older same-source memories, into a single dense paragraph. Use when bounding storage growth while preserving the gist for retrieval.
license	Apache-2.0
metadata	{"category":"utility","prompts":[{"key":"ops.retention.summarize_to_table","output_format":"text","description":"Compress one calendar day of rows from a source table into a single paragraph summary. Replaces N rows with 1 summary row to bound storage growth while preserving the gist for retrieval."},{"key":"memory.collapse_old_embeddings.summary","output_format":"text","description":"Compress N older same-source memory excerpts into a single dense paragraph for re-embedding. Future semantic search reads the summary instead of the originals — favor facts/names/decisions over prose."}]}

Hygiene skill

Operational summarization prompts that bound storage growth. ops.retention.summarize_to_table is used by services/integrations/handlers/retention_summarize_to_table.py to compress one calendar day of rows (e.g. audit_log) into a single summary row. memory.collapse_old_embeddings.summary is consumed by services/integrations/handlers/retention_embeddings_collapse.py (#242, retired services/jobs/collapse_old_embeddings.py 2026-06-24) — a per-policy-row config.prompt_template wins over the catalog default (poindexter#829 wired the handler to this key).

UnifiedPromptManager resolves each template by key; both handlers fetch the raw template through the gated _resolve_template_with_meta seam and apply the {...} placeholders themselves. The inline fallbacks in the handlers stay as a bootstrap safety net per feedback_prompts_must_be_db_configurable and must stay byte-identical to the bodies below (the shared drift guard enforces it).

ops.retention.summarize_to_table

You are compressing one calendar day of {source_table} rows so the system remembers the gist without storing every row. Below are {n} representative rows from {bucket_start_iso}, each separated by '---'.

Write a single paragraph (3-6 sentences) summarizing what happened that day. Preserve specific event types, sources, severity, decisions, and outcomes. Drop boilerplate and repetition. The summary will be stored as a single row replacing all {row_count} raw rows for the day, so dense factual content beats prose.

Rows:
{joined}

Summary:

memory.collapse_old_embeddings.summary

You are compressing a cluster of older memories so the system remembers the gist without storing every detail. Below are {n} excerpts from the same source ({source_table}), each separated by '---'.

Write a single paragraph (3-6 sentences) summarizing what these excerpts collectively say. Preserve specific names, dates, decisions, errors, and outcomes. Drop boilerplate, repetition, and verbose phrasing. The summary will be embedded and used for future semantic search, so dense factual content beats prose.

Excerpts:
{joined}

Summary: