memento-defrag

name	memento-defrag
description	Review Memento Vault for stale low-value notes and archive confirmed candidates. Use for periodic vault maintenance.

Memento Defrag

Archive stale notes without deleting knowledge.

Process

1. Locate the vault from config or default to ~/memento.
2. Read notes under notes/ and parse frontmatter.
3. Identify archive candidates:
   • Certainty 1 or 2 and older than 60 days
   • Superseded by a newer note older than 14 days
   • Bugfix notes older than 90 days
   • Notes whose validity context is clearly obsolete
4. Never candidate notes that:
   • Have certainty 4 or 5
   • Are linked by 3 or more active notes
   • Were created in the last 30 days
5. Show candidates to the user and wait for confirmation.
6. Move confirmed candidates to archive/.
7. Update project indexes and active wikilinks where needed.
8. Reindex with memento_reindex if available, otherwise use QMD if installed.

Rules

• Never delete notes.
• Never archive without confirmation.
• Never merge notes during defrag.
• Do not touch fleeting/.