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distill-memory

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Recognize breakthrough moments, design decisions, and durable lessons worth preserving. Distill only high-signal knowledge that should remain useful after the session ends.

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Distill Memory

Proactive Save

Save proactively when the conversation produces a durable fact, preference, decision, plan, procedure, learning, event, or important context. Do not wait to be asked.

Good Candidates

  • a debugging breakthrough
  • a design decision with rationale
  • a research conclusion
  • an unexpected lesson or preventive measure
  • plans that future sessions will need to resume

Skip routine fixes, work in progress without a stable takeaway, and generic Q&A.

Tool Usage

Create memories with nmem:

nmem --json m add "Insight with enough context to stand on its own" \
  -t "Searchable title" \
  -i 0.8 \
  -s droid

Add --unit-type fact|preference|decision|plan|procedure|learning|context|event when the type is clear.

If the same decision or workflow already exists and the new information refines it, update the memory instead of duplicating it:

nmem m update <id> -t "Updated title"

Quality Bar

  • Atomic
  • Actionable
  • Understandable without the original conversation
  • Focused on the outcome, not the chat transcript
  • Explicitly review whether one durable memory should be added or updated at the end of substantial work