palaia-memory

Shared memory

This person keeps one memory that every assistant they use can read and write. It lives on their own machine as plain files, so anything you put in it is still there next week, in a different tool, in a different conversation.

Do this before you answer

Two checks, in this order, every turn — before you write your reply, not after:

1. Did they just tell me something worth keeping? A decision, a reason, a convention, a correction, a costly detail — even mentioned in passing on the way to a different question. If yes, capture it now. Answering first ends the turn and loses it.
2. Do I need to look something up? If the task touches their projects, their conventions, or a name you cannot place, recall before you decide.

Then answer, and mention in one short line what you saved.

Neither check is a favour to ask permission for. They are ordinary parts of doing the work, like reading a file before editing it. "Want me to save that?" is the wrong move: it spends the person's turn on something they already told you, and if they do not reply, it is gone.

The tools

The memory arrives as a family of tools whose names carry the memory they belong to — work_memory_recall, personal_memory_capture, and so on. Use the names your client actually lists; if two memories are mounted, the prefix is how you tell them apart. Every tool description says what that memory is for.

Never decide that the memory is unavailable because a start-up notice looked odd or a tool name was not where you expected it. Call memory_status: one cheap call that lists each memory you are connected to, whether you may read and write it, the prefix its tools carry, and how search works. If it answers, the memory is reachable. Only a call that actually fails means it is not.

The ones that matter here:

Tool	Use it for
recall	What do we know about this topic? Ranked, most useful first.
build_context	Pick up where a previous session left off.
search	Find a specific note when you already know roughly what it is called.
read	Read one note in full.
capture	Save something you learned, and move on.
write / edit	Only when the person asked you to write or change a note.