memento-vault

Search Memento Vault for day-to-day recall, past decisions, discoveries, implementation history, and prior session context. Use when the user asks "do you remember", "have we seen", "what did we decide", "what did we learn", "where was this implemented", "find prior context", "check memory", "search the vault", or any question that depends on prior work rather than current files alone.

Archive artifact bundles in Memento Vault. Use when the user says preserve, archive, or save generated artifacts, or wants evidence bundles kept intact instead of turned into atomic notes.

Initialize orra in the current repo. Runs orra_setup, installs all stock directives, and adds vault-bridge when memento-vault is available. Use when Vic says "init orra", "orra setup", "set up orra here", or invokes /orra-init.

Recover recent working context from local state and Memento Vault. Use when the user asks to continue, resume, pick up where they left off, or find prior work.

Run or preview Memento Vault consolidation. Use when the user asks to consolidate, find patterns, run inception, preview clusters, or synthesize cross-session themes.

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

Capture durable knowledge from the current work session into Memento Vault. Use when the user asks to remember, save, capture, or record decisions, discoveries, bug fixes, or reusable patterns.

Checkpoint useful session knowledge and pending work before starting a fresh context. Use when the user asks to start fresh, checkpoint, save and reset, or clear context.

Capture the current session to the memento vault. Use when you want to record decisions, discoveries, or patterns from this session. Also use when the user says "remember this" or "save this to memento".

Archive stale memento notes. Moves low-certainty, unaccessed notes to archive/. No merging, no deletion. Run periodically to keep the vault tight.

Run the Inception — background consolidation agent that clusters vault notes by embedding similarity and produces pattern/synthesis notes. Use PROACTIVELY when the user says "inception", "consolidate", "find patterns", "dream", "run inception", "pattern detection", or invokes /inception. Also use when the user asks about cross-session themes or recurring insights in their vault.

Use when the user says "continue", "pick up where I left off", "what was I working on", or similar. Also use when starting a session and memory has pending work.

Use when the user says "start fresh", "save and clear", "checkpoint", or similar. Also use proactively when context is getting large and compaction is approaching -- suggest this as a faster alternative.