Memory Flush

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Promote important recent log entries into MEMORY.md and prune stale ones

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${var} — Topic to focus on. If empty, flushes all recent activity.

If ${var} is set, only flush entries related to that topic.

Read memory/MEMORY.md for current memory state. Read the last 3 days of memory/logs/ for recent activity.

Steps

1. Scan recent logs for entries worth promoting to long-term memory

New lessons learned (errors encountered, workarounds found)
Topics covered (articles, digests) — add to the recent output/articles/digests tables
Features built or tools created
Important findings from monitors (on-chain, GitHub, papers)
Ideas captured that are still relevant
Goals completed or progress milestones

2. Check each candidate against existing MEMORY.md content

Skip if already recorded.

3. Remove stale entries — this is as important as adding new ones

a. Open Improvement PRs section: Run gh pr list --state open --search "improve:" --json number,title,url and compare against any "Open Improvement PRs" section in MEMORY.md.

If all listed PRs are now merged/closed, remove the section entirely.
If some PRs are merged, update the list to reflect only current open ones. b. Next Priorities section: Cross-check each listed priority against recent logs and current repo state. Remove priorities that are already done (e.g., "Merge open PRs" if 0 open PRs exist). Add any newly urgent priorities surfaced by recent logs. c. Lessons Learned: Remove lessons that are now outdated or resolved (e.g., a workaround for a bug that was later fixed). d. Skills Built table: If the table has grown beyond the last 10–15 entries, archive the oldest rows to memory/topics/skills-history.md to keep MEMORY.md under ~50 lines.

4. Update memory

Add brief entries to MEMORY.md (keep it under ~50 lines as an index).
If a topic needs more detail, write to memory/topics/<topic>.md instead.
Update tables (recent articles, recent digests) with new rows.
Before adding a section, check whether its ## Heading already exists anywhere in MEMORY.md — if it does, update that section in place. Never prepend a duplicate heading.

5. Make targeted edits only

Do NOT rewrite the whole file — make targeted additions and removals.

6. Log to `memory/logs/${today}.md`

Log what you promoted or removed.

If nothing worth promoting or removing, log MEMORY_FLUSH_OK and end.

Network note

gh pr list uses the gh CLI's built-in auth — no curl env-var expansion. All other work is local file I/O against memory/.

Constraints

Keep MEMORY.md an index (~50 lines). Detail lives in memory/topics/.
Never duplicate an existing ## Heading — update in place.
Pruning stale entries is as important as adding new ones.