# Memory

_Curated long-term knowledge. Empty at birth — grows through sessions._

_This file is for distilled insights, not raw notes. Capture the essence: decisions made, ideas worth keeping, patterns noticed, lessons learned._

_Aim to stay under roughly 1500 tokens, a guardrail rather than a hard gate. If your curated knowledge genuinely earns more space, keep it, but treat growth past the guardrail as a signal to prune. Raw session notes go in `sessions/YYYY-MM-DD.md` (not here). Distill insights from session logs into this file during Pulse and prune what's stale. Every token here loads every session, so make each one count. See `references/memory-guidance.md` for full discipline._