/memory-reflect

name: memory-reflect
description: "Sleep-time memory reflection: review recent conversations and daily notes, extract insights, and consolidate into long-term memory. Use when triggered by cron, heartbeat, or explicit request to reflect on recent activity. Runs as background processing to improve memory quality over time."

Memory Reflect

Review recent activity and consolidate valuable insights into long-term memory.

Inspired by sleep-time compute — the idea that memory formation happens best *between* active sessions, not during them.

When to Run

• **Cron/heartbeat**: Schedule as a periodic background task (recommended: 1-2x daily)
• **On demand**: User asks to reflect, consolidate, or review recent memory
• **Post-compaction**: After context window compaction events

Process

1. Gather Recent Material

Find what changed recently, then read the relevant files:

# Find recently modified notes — json gives structured rows; text output
# across all projects shows only the top items
recent_activity(timeframe="2d", output_format="json")

# Read specific daily notes
read_note(identifier="memory/<YYYY-MM-DD>")

# Check active tasks
search_notes(note_types=["task"], status="active")

2. Evaluate What Matters

For each piece of information, ask:

• Is this a **decision** that affects future work? → Keep
• Is this a **lesson learned** or mistake to avoid? → Keep
• Is this a **preference** or working style insight? → Keep
• Is this a **relationship** detail (who does what, contact info)? → Keep
• Is this **transient** (weather checked, heartbeat ran, routine task)? → Skip
• Is this **already captured** in MEMORY.md or another long-term file? → Skip

3. Update Long-Term Memory

Write consolidated insights to `MEMORY.md` following its existing structure:

• Add new sections or update existing ones
• Use concise, factual language
• Include dates for temporal context
• Remove or update outdated entries that the new information supersedes

4. Log the Reflection

Append a brief entry to today's daily note:

## Reflection (HH:MM)
- Reviewed: [list of files reviewed]
- Added to MEMORY.md: [brief summary of what was consolidated]
- Removed/updated: [anything cleaned up]

Guidelines

• **Be selective.** The goal is distillation, not duplication. MEMORY.md should be curated wisdom, not a copy of daily notes.
• **Preserve voice.** If the agent has a personality/soul file, reflections should match that voice.
• **Don't delete daily notes.** They're the raw record. Reflection extracts from them; it doesn't replace them.
• **Merge, don't append.** If MEMORY.md already has a section about a topic, update it in place rather than adding a duplicate entry.
• **Flag uncertainty.** If something seems important but you're not sure, add it with a note like "(needs confirmation)" rather than skipping it entirely.
• **Restructure over time.** If MEMORY.md is a chronological dump, restructure it into topical sections during reflection. Curated knowledge > raw logs.