| name | curator |
| description | Maintain the nmem knowledge base — a lint pass that hunts contradictions, duplicates, dead references, and expired entries, plus a synthesis pass that reports what changed and what is drifting. Use when the user says "lint my memory", "curate", "整理知识库", "nmem 维护", suspects memories have gone stale, or on a scheduled maintenance run.
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Curator
Harvest writes; curator keeps it trustworthy. An unmaintained knowledge base rots — contradictions accumulate, duplicates fragment retrieval, and references outlive the things they point to. Two passes, run together or alone.
Lint pass
Routine-tier work: mechanical checks, conservative fixes.
- Scope the window. Find the last curator-run memory (
nmem memories search "curator run"); lint what changed since. First run: sweep everything (nmem memories list, nmem stats).
- Duplicates — search topic clusters the window touched; near-identical entries merge into the strongest one (
update), losers get supersede links.
- Contradictions — where a newer memory disagrees with an older one, verify which is true now;
deprecate the loser with the reason recorded, never silently.
- Dead references — memories naming files, flags, skills, or commands: verify each still exists (check the repo or filesystem). Update what moved; deprecate what vanished.
- Expired — entries whose stated expiry has passed: re-verify or deprecate. Time-sensitive claims with no expiry get one added now.
- Harvest gaps — list the window's threads (
nmem threads list) and compare against memories added in the same span; a non-trivial session that saved nothing is a harvest miss. Read the thread, save what a future session would need, or confirm there was genuinely nothing to keep. Threads import is manual — a sparse window may mean unsynced, not idle; say so in the report instead of guessing.
Fix verbs, in order of preference: update (correct in place) → supersede (old links to replacement) → deprecate (obsolete, kept for audit) → delete (only for entries wrong from birth). History stays legible.
Synthesis pass
Premium-tier work: judgment across the whole window.
Read the window's memories plus the feed (nmem feed), then write a short report to the user: what entered, what themes are forming, what drifts from earlier decisions, what deserves attention next. This is the pass that surfaces cross-source connections no single entry shows.
Closing a run
End every run by saving one memory: curator run <date> — <n> linted, <fixes>, <one-line synthesis>. That entry is the next run's starting line.
Run manually until the output proves itself; then schedule it (weekly is the right default) via the runtime's scheduler.
