Memory consolidation
Memory consolidation is the process of deciding which recent episodic memories deserve to be promoted to long-term storage. Without consolidation, the agent's memory degrades to a recency window; with it, the long-term store accrues over time.
Why it matters
A live conversation generates many episodic notes. Most stop mattering within days. Some are extraordinarily important and should never be forgotten. Distinguishing the two is consolidation. Done well, the agent's long-term memory grows organized; done badly, the agent forgets important things and remembers trivial ones.
Consolidation has dials. Aggressive promotion makes the long-term store noisy. Conservative promotion makes the agent feel forgetful. The right calibration is what makes the agent feel learned-in over time.
How Ajeris handles this
Memory consolidation runs in the dreaming worker at 3am UTC fleet-wide. The worker walks each user's recent episodic notes and scores them on three signals: recurrence (mentioned more than once), specificity (named entities versus generic), and user-affirmation (explicitly told to remember). High-scoring notes are promoted to semantic memory; user-affirmed facts go to core memory. Low-scoring notes age out within 7 days.
