Lifecycle

Forgetting

Type-aware decay and archival:

Kind	Decay	Archive
instruction, rule, commitment	never	never
fact	exponential	old + low importance
preference	slow	rarely
observation	fast	quickly

EmotionTrigger

Detects emotional content and boosts importance:

• High emotional weight → importance boost
• Triggers memory consolidation for emotionally significant entries

Consolidation

Promotes important memories between layers:

• L3 entries with high importance → L4 core memory
• Repeated patterns → consolidated facts
• Type-aware: instruction/rule/commitment always promote

Importance Scheduler

Background daemon for periodic re-scoring:

• Re-evaluates importance based on retrieval frequency
• Boosts frequently accessed memories
• Decays rarely accessed ones