memory — Manual

What it does

Stores facts about the user that outlive the session: who they are, what they prefer, which hosts and tools they run, what they are working on. Anything true tomorrow but not worth rediscovering belongs here; anything true only for this turn belongs in scratchpad.

Facts are scoped to the user. A save is an upsert on (category, key) — writing the same key again overwrites it rather than adding a second fact, so correct a wrong fact by saving over it.

Parameters

Parameter	Used by	Description
`action`	required	`save` \	`search` \	`forget` \	`list`.
`query`	`search`	Keywords describing what to look for.
`category`	`save`, `forget`	`profile` \	`preferences` \	`technical` \	`projects` \	`other`.
`key`	`save`, `forget`	`snake_case` identifier, unique within the category.
`value`	`save`	The fact, one concise plain-text statement.
`source`	`save`	`conversation` (default) \	`tool_call` \	`auto_discovery` \	`user_explicit`.
`confidence`	`save`	0–100, default 70.
`expires_days`	`save`	Set only when the thing itself ends — a trial, a temporary host. Omit for everything else.
`source_context`	`save`	Provenance, e.g. `found via ip addr on localhost`.

Categories: profile = who they are, preferences = likes/dislikes, technical = OS/tools/servers, projects = ongoing work, other = everything else.

Actions

`save`

Requires category, key and value; omitting any of the three fails the call with a specific message. An invalid category is rejected; an invalid source is silently coerced to conversation, and confidence is clamped to 0–100.

{"action": "save", "category": "preferences", "key": "response_language",
 "value": "Prefers all answers in Russian", "source": "user_explicit",
 "confidence": 95, "source_context": "user asked directly in session"}

{"action": "save", "category": "technical", "key": "prod_server_ip",
 "value": "Production runs on 192.168.1.168 (branch master, docker postgres)",
 "source": "tool_call", "confidence": 95,
 "source_context": "found via ssh_exec hostname/ip addr"}

Calibrate the two numbers honestly — they are what makes a fact worth trusting later:

How you learned it	`source`	`confidence`
Ran a tool and read the output	`tool_call`	95
The user told you	`user_explicit`	80–95
Extracted from the conversation	`conversation`	70
Read it on the web	`auto_discovery`	50
Inferred / guessed	`conversation`	30

Expiry is for facts with a known end, not for facts you merely doubt. Set expires_days when the thing itself finishes — a trial that ends on a date, a host provisioned for a week. An address or a running service does not expire on a schedule: it is wrong the moment it changes, and only the tool that observes it can know that. A fact with no expiry is corrected by saving over it, which is what search-then-save is for.

`search`

Requires query. Returns up to 15 matching facts, each with its category, key, value and provenance (src, conf, ctx). This is the read path — search before saving, so you update an existing key instead of inventing a near-duplicate.

{"action": "search", "query": "server ip"}
{"action": "search", "query": "language preference"}

`forget`

Requires key; category optionally narrows it. Returns how many facts were deleted; deleting nothing is an error (not found), not a silent success.

{"action": "forget", "key": "prod_server_ip", "category": "technical"}

`list`

Returns the categories that hold facts, not the facts themselves:

{"action": "list"}

Use it to see the shape of what is stored; use search to read the content.

Rules

Do not store what the code or the session already says — no facts about the current conversation's files, and nothing recoverable from one tool call.
One fact per key. home_server_ip and prod_server_ip are different facts; server holding three sentences is one unusable blob.
value is a statement, not a field name: "Home server is 192.168.1.168", not "192.168.1.168".
Search before saving. The upsert only overwrites when the key matches exactly.
Never save secrets — passwords, tokens, keys. Record where they live, not what they are.