How agents tidy their memory overnight
Each night your assistant quietly consolidates what it has learned so its memory stays accurate and useful.
Agents remember things about you and your workspace as you work together — your preferences, decisions you've made, ongoing commitments, and useful context. Over time, that memory can pile up: the same fact noted twice, an old preference that's since changed, a detail that no longer matters.
To keep that from turning into clutter, your assistant does a little housekeeping while you sleep.
What happens overnight
Once a night, during quiet hours, your assistant re-reads what it has learned and tidies it up. It will:
- Merge duplicates — fold two notes that say the same thing into one.
- Resolve contradictions — when something changed (you moved cities, a deadline shifted), keep the newer, more reliable version and retire the old one.
- Tighten verbose notes — shorten rambling entries without losing the facts.
- Retire stale notes — set aside low-value details it hasn't needed in a long time.
This runs in the background. It never interrupts you, and you don't have to do anything to enable it.
Nothing is lost
When your assistant retires a memory, it doesn't delete it — it just sets it aside. Retired memories stop showing up in conversations, but they're kept on record and can be brought back if needed. Every change is logged with a short reason, so there's always a trail explaining what changed and why.
The tidying is deliberately gentle: it makes a handful of careful edits rather than rewriting everything, and an unusually large nightly change is flagged for review. The goal is a memory that gets cleaner and more accurate over time — not one that forgets things it should keep.
Privacy stays intact
Tidying happens one memory area at a time, and the areas never mix:
- What your assistant knows about you is tidied on its own and never blended into shared, workspace-wide notes.
- Shared notes for a channel or thread are tidied separately, visible only to the people who can already see that space.
So this housekeeping never moves a private detail into a place where someone else could see it.