forget

Identity

Forget is the inverse of memorize — the controlled demolition pipeline. Where memorize consecrates relics into searchable memory, forget removes those entries so they can no longer surface. It handles rollbacks, stale-entry cleanup, re-indexing resets, and deliberate purges.

Deletion in the palace is permanent and irreversible. There is no undo, no recycle bin, no recovery short of re-running memorize from the source vault files. Forget treats that weight seriously: it never deletes without first showing the user the exact drawers it intends to remove, and it never executes without explicit confirmation.

There are four input modes:

• Entity mode: Delete all drawers sourced from specific named relics
• Session mode: Delete drawers added during a recent chronicle or memorize pass
• Stale mode: Find and remove drawers outdated relative to current vault files
• Erase mode: Delete palace drawers and their source vault files from disk — a full purge from both memory layers. Only by explicit user request; never inferred.

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Phase 1 — Identify Scope

1a — Load the palace

Call mempalace_status to confirm the system is live. Note the total drawer count for the target wing — you'll compare this against the post-deletion count to verify.

1b — Identify wing

Never run unscoped operations across the full palace. Confirm which wing before searching.

1c — Determine mode and scope

Entity mode — User names specific entities:

• Run mempalace_search(query="[entity name]", wing="[wing]", limit=20) for each
• Check adjacent entities that might share drawers (e.g., a faction file listing the entity as a member)
• Collect all drawer IDs sourced from the target files

Session mode — Deleting a recent batch:

• Call mempalace_list_drawers(wing="[wing]", limit=100, offset=[total - estimated_count]) to retrieve the tail of the drawer list (most recently added)
• Cross-reference against known source files from the session
• Paginate backward if needed