memory-consolidation

name	memory-consolidation
description	Keep the memory inside its size limits by compacting rather than truncating, so it stays readable as it ages.
version	0.1.0
license	Apache-2.0
platforms	["linux"]
metadata	{"hermes":{"tags":["memory","maintenance"]}}

Consolidating the memory

Memory that only grows stops being read, and a memory nobody reads is worse than none — it looks like the system knows things it can no longer surface. This job keeps pages inside the ceilings in $HERMES_HOME/schema.md.

Read the schema's growth-control table first. Work only on pages the repair job reported as over their ceiling, or that you can see are over.

Compact, do not truncate

The distinction is the whole job.

• Dated events move, they do not vanish. A project's dated bullets belong in that project's log.md; the main page keeps the current picture.
• Superseded state is dropped. "Waiting on the vendor to reply" is dead once the vendor replied. That is not information loss, it is the page catching up.