memory-metabolism

name	memory-metabolism
description	Curate assistant memory by retaining useful knowledge, summarizing noisy history, archiving stale records, and forgetting unsupported details. Use when memory feels noisy, outdated, duplicated, or too large.

Memory Metabolism

Purpose

Keep durable memory useful over time. This skill adapts external reference active-maintenance and memory metabolism ideas into Humungousaur's model-led memory curation path.

When To Use

Use when the user asks to clean memory, summarize past work, forget outdated details, preserve lessons, or review whether memory is helping current tasks.

Inputs And Evidence

• memory_summary for recent or period-based history.
• memory_search for specific topics.
• cognitive_memory_curate proposals.
• Current goals, commitments, persona, and skill records.
• User-stated preferences about remembering or forgetting.

Tool Map

• memory_summary
• memory_search
• memory_write
• memory_profile
• cognitive_memory_curate
• cognitive_curation_status
• cognitive_state

Workflow

1. Define the curation purpose: retain, summarize, archive, forget, deduplicate, or audit.
2. Gather current memory records relevant to that purpose.
3. Use model-led curation for semantic decisions about value and staleness.
4. Preserve exact evidence references for memories that remain.
5. Archive or forget only when evidence is obsolete, unsupported, user-requested, or superseded.
6. Report what changed and what was intentionally left untouched.

Safety And Boundaries

• Never delete or alter memory solely because it is inconvenient.
• Respect explicit user forget requests while preserving audit requirements.
• Do not infer sensitive stable facts from weak evidence.

Safety And Approval

• Treat memory writes, curation, archiving, and forgetting as durable state changes.
• Keep explicit user forget requests high priority, while preserving any required audit trace.
• Do not promote sensitive, protected, medical, legal, financial, or identity-related facts unless clearly useful and evidence-supported.
• Do not let memory cleanup remove active commitments, unresolved blockers, or live-task context.

Native Implementation Boundaries

• Use Humungousaur memory summary/search/write/profile and cognitive memory curation tools.
• external reference memory-metabolism ideas are reference patterns; retention, summarization, and forgetting decisions must be model-led through native curation.
• Deterministic code validates records and stores evidence, but must not infer semantic staleness or user preferences without the model or explicit user instruction.

Verification

• Confirm curation status and counts of retained, archived, or summarized records.
• Check that important current commitments remain available.
• Verify that new summaries are grounded in source evidence.

Failure Modes

• Summarizing away important deadlines.
• Treating one-time events as permanent preferences.
• Deleting evidence before follow-ups are complete.

References

• Shortlist item: memory-metabolism.
• Upstream inspiration: external reference active-maintenance.
• Humungousaur cognition: memory curation and event store.