memory-manager

Upgrade your agent's memory from basic notes to a 3-layer production system with nightly consolidation. Based on patterns from running 7 AI bots in production for 30+ days.

Overview

Every AI agent has the same problem: it wakes up fresh every session with no memory of what happened before. The naive fix is a single MEMORY.md file — but that doesn't scale. After a few weeks, it's either a wall of text the agent ignores, or so curated it's missing operational context.

This skill installs a 3-layer memory architecture that mirrors how humans actually store knowledge:

Layer	File	What goes here
1 — Long-term	`MEMORY.md`	Curated wisdom, architecture decisions, hard-won lessons
2 — Operational	`memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md`	What happened today, active project state, raw context
3 — Tacit	`USER.md`	How your human works, preferences, frustrations, patterns

Plus a nightly consolidation cron that reviews recent sessions and promotes important context up the layers automatically.