swarm-zap/memory/2026-03-11.md

2026-03-11

Memory maintenance

• Reviewed recent memory habits and did a cleanup pass.
• Assessment:
  • capture frequency: good
  • long-term curation: decent but lagging behind capture
  • organization: getting messy due to a mix of daily logs, one-off topical notes, references, plans, logs, and machine-readable state in memory/
• Cleaned up MEMORY.md so it stores durable facts/lessons instead of mixed-in runtime/instruction text.
• Added a clearer rule to AGENTS.md: use named memory files only for long-lived plans/references/investigations; otherwise prefer the daily note.

Durable lessons promoted to MEMORY.md

• Check current state before suggesting setup/re-setup.
• Treat Telegram DM and TUI/webchat as separate main-session contexts when session.dmScope = "per-channel-peer" is active.
• Prefer local-first search routing and remember Brave free-plan rate limits.
• Keep backup/transcription infrastructure notes in long-term memory when they affect future operations.

Consolidation pass

• Archived obvious low-value auto-generated session-summary files out of top-level memory/ into memory/archive/session-summaries/ instead of deleting them.
• Archived files:
  • 2026-03-02-2127.md
  • 2026-03-03-2223.md
  • 2026-03-03-session-greeting.md
  • 2026-03-04-0825.md
  • 2026-03-04-greeting.md
  • 2026-03-04-test-confirmation.md
  • 2026-03-05-heartbeat-ok.md
  • 2026-03-05-codex-error-type-error-error-t.md
• Rationale: these were mostly reset/greeting/test/heartbeat artifacts with little long-term value, but still worth retaining in case old session evidence is needed later.

Reclassification pass

• Moved substantive non-daily topical notes out of top-level memory/ into clearer buckets:
  • memory/ops/ for workflow/setup/operational notes
  • memory/incidents/ for debugging, outages, and issue investigation notes
• Result: top-level memory/ now contains mostly daily notes, which makes the default inbox much clearer.

Follow-up intent

• Be more disciplined about using the daily note as the default inbox and promoting only durable truths into MEMORY.md.
• Avoid adding new one-off memory files unless the topic is truly long-lived.
• Keep top-level memory/ mostly reserved for daily notes; use subfolders for topical material.