promote

name	promote
description	Extract key learnings from daily logs and promote them to identity/memory.md. Run automatically via launchd once per day, or manually after a productive day.

Daily log promotion — extract signal from raw conversation logs into long-term memory.

Hot/Cold Memory Architecture

• Hot: identity/memory.md — always in context, kept under 2500 tokens. Only the essentials.
• Cold: memory/*.md — topic files searched on-demand. Detailed context lives here.
  • memory/projects.md — project details, architecture, status
  • memory/preferences.md — recurring patterns, style choices
  • memory/decisions.md — key decisions with reasoning
  • memory/people.md — people context
  • memory/archive-YYYY-MM.md — older entries rotated out of hot memory

Steps

1. Read the last 3 days of daily-logs/ files
2. Read current identity/memory.md (hot) and relevant memory/*.md files (cold)
3. Extract and route:
   • Key decisions (with rationale) → identity/memory.md Current State + memory/decisions.md
   • Lessons learned → memory/decisions.md
   • New preferences → memory/preferences.md
   • Project context → memory/projects.md
   • People context → memory/people.md
   • Active work / open threads → identity/memory.md Active Work
4. For identity/memory.md (hot layer):
   • Only promote things needed in every conversation
   • Update ## Current State and ## Active Work
   • Add one-liner to ## Session Log
   • Keep under 2500 tokens — push detail to cold files
5. For memory/*.md (cold layer):
   • Add detailed entries with datestamps: <!-- promoted YYYY-MM-DD -->
   • Don't duplicate — consolidate with existing entries
   • Remove stale entries that are clearly no longer relevant
6. If identity/memory.md is over 2500 tokens, archive oldest entries to memory/archive-YYYY-MM.md
7. Report what was promoted, where it went, and what was skipped