Memory & knowledge

Memory compounding

Move memory out of the chat and into files a later session can actually read.

Inside this skill

1. 0. First solve "how will it ever be triggered" (otherwise everything below is void)
2. 1. Where memory lives: `$CODEX_HOME/memory/`
3. 2. The three-step loop (this is all of it)
4. 3. Four anti-rot rules (each one checkable)
5. 4. Fix gate (**mandatory before acting**)
6. 5. Distinguishability of criteria ("looks like" is not a criterion)
7. 6. The health check must cover "the input", not only "your own processing"
8. 7. Self-imposed constraints must be audited first
9. 8. Three questions when tidying
10. 9. Relationship to existing mechanisms (do not mix them up)
11. 10. Self-check

This page is generated from the skill document itself. The outline below is that document's own structure, translated headings included.

How to use it

1. Download the file below — it is a single SKILL.md.
2. Put it in the skills folder your agent reads, in a directory named memory-compounding.
3. Start a message with the trigger from the description, or name the skill directly.