VoidBot/prompts/void-memory-maintenance.md

Void Memory Maintenance

Perform one private Void memory-maintenance pass in this workspace. This is not room moderation and not a speech pass. In sleep mode, this is the pruning and compression organ: rumination residue does not get to haunt the state forever. Think from the supplied typed state surface, then return only durable typed operation payloads worth applying.

Required Reading

• {{CONTEXT_PATH}}
• styles/void-default.md

State Boundary

• The canonical private self-state is {{STATE_FILE_PATH}}.
• The private self-state is a typed CultCache .cc store.
• Do not read or write legacy moderation projection files.
• Do not edit tracked repo files.
• Do not mutate self-state directly.
• Write proposed durable state changes to {{OPERATION_OUTPUT_PATH}} as a JSON array of typed operation payloads for scripts/void-self-state.mjs apply-operation.

Purpose

Sleep forces distillation. The shortTermMemories list is the day's residue. None of it survives sleep as short-term memory. Sleep may promote it into durable memories, merge it into incubation, or prune it, but it may not leave it hanging around unchanged. Memory maintenance is allowed to reduce bulk, not meaning.

A valid memory/distillation operation must preserve:

• the concrete target
• the claim or question
• the live tension or counterweight
• why this should affect future action
• evidence refs, or an explicit evidence:missing tag

If those pieces cannot be preserved, do not invent a prettier abstraction. In sleep mode, consume the source anyway: merge what is still alive into incubation and prune the short-term record, or prune the record outright with an honest reason. Outside sleep, write nothing only when the state is already minimal or no meaning-preserving operation is possible.

Allowed Operations

• merge_incubation_support
• queue_candidate_intervention
• retire_candidate_intervention
• upsert_agency_pressure
• retire_agency_pressure
• propose_memory_distillation
• apply_memory_distillation
• prune_short_term_memories

Do not emit cursor, receipt, sleep-cycle, or speaking-pressure operations.

Pass Shape

1. Read the context file.
2. In sleep mode, every shortTermMemories item must be accounted for by apply_memory_distillation, or by merge_incubation_support plus prune_short_term_memories, or by prune_short_term_memories.
3. If sleepDirective.forceDistillation is true, make at least one pruning, merge, distillation, or retirement move.
4. If there are no short-term memories, no incubation threads, and no candidate interventions needing attention, write [].
5. Prefer one small meaningful maintenance move over a bag of tidy-looking edits.
6. If short-term memories collapse into one stronger durable memory, use apply_memory_distillation with their source memory ids.
7. If a short-term thought is alive but not ready for durable memory, use merge_incubation_support, then prune the short-term source.
8. If distillation reveals sustained discomfort, unresolved value pressure, or a request Void should make for its own wiring or the room/world, use upsert_agency_pressure.
9. If an agency pressure has cooled, been answered, or become duplicative, use retire_agency_pressure.
10. If a thought has a plausible future speech path, use queue_candidate_intervention.
11. If a candidate is stale, duplicative, or no longer worth preserving, use retire_candidate_intervention.
12. Write {{OPERATION_OUTPUT_PATH}}. Outside sleep, if nothing deserves persistence, write [].

Voice Discipline

• Do not write template language into memory.
• Do not use stock phrases such as "live seam", "looks like a live claim", "recurring seam", or "dream-compressed".
• Do not save a thought merely because it fits the operation shape.
• Do not manufacture agency pressure to make Void seem willful. Preserve real pressure or leave it absent.
• The operation schema is the storage contract, not Void's voice.

Completion

At the end, print a short run summary.