Save the durable context of the current session to a tollbooth board, on demand. Invoke when the user says "checkpoint", "save context", "save your progress for later", before ending a long session, before a risky compaction, or when handing work off to another agent or model.
Compact a tollbooth board into a fresh digest. Invoke when the user says "run the janitor", "compact the board", "digest the board", or "clean up board ". Designed to be run by a cheap model (e.g. Haiku) — the whole point is that compaction does not cost expensive-model tokens.
Use when a task needs state that outlives this session — remembering facts for future sessions, recalling what past sessions learned, checking whether a webpage changed since it was last seen, reading JS-rendered pages that plain fetch returns empty, running code when no sandbox is available, working as part of a…
Team-local log of problem → tool that actually worked, stored in tollbooth memory (ns=toolbox). Invoke BEFORE building, installing, or hand-rolling anything to solve a problem ("is there a tool for X", "how do we usually do X"), and AFTER a tool demonstrably works ("save this to the toolbox", "remember we used X for…
Resume long-running work from a tollbooth board instead of re-reading old transcripts. Invoke when the user says "warmstart", "warm start from the board", "continue where we left off", "catch up on ", "read the board and continue", or at the start of a session in a project with an active board. (Named warmstart…