eugenezhangco-spec Compile — Synthesize Memory into Domain Summaries
Trigger
- "Catch me up on [topic]", "summarize what you know about my [career/health/etc]"
- "Compile memories", "update summaries"
- Auto-triggered during weekly review when 20+ new memories exist in any room
- Auto-triggered when user asks a broad question about a life domain
What This Does
Reads all MemPalace drawers in a specific room (or all rooms), synthesizes them into a clean, authoritative summary page, and saves it to personal/compiled/[domain].md. This is the Karpathy-inspired "compiled knowledge" upgrade — instead of searching hundreds of memory fragments every time, Athena reads one synthesized brief.
Procedure
Pick the domain. If the user specified one, use it. If auto-triggered, compile the room with the most new memories since the last compile.
Pull all drawers from MemPalace.
Use mempalace_search with the room name, pull up to 100 results. Also query the knowledge graph: mempalace_kg_query for all entities in this domain.Separate by source tag.
user_statementmemories are ground truth. Lead with these.system_inferencememories are supporting context. Include but flag confidence.
Synthesize into sections. Write a clean markdown summary with:
- Current state — what's true right now
- Key facts — undisputed, high-confidence information
- Recent changes — what changed in the last 30 days
- Open questions — things Athena isn't sure about
- People involved — relevant KG entities and relationships
- Timestamp at the top:
Last compiled: YYYY-MM-DD
Save to
personal/compiled/[domain].md. Overwrite the previous version entirely. The old version is in git history if needed.Tell the user in one sentence what was compiled and any gaps found.
Domain Map
| Room | Compiled File | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| career | career.md | Jobs, projects, professional milestones, skills, ambitions |
| health | health.md | Physical health, fitness, mental health, habits, conditions |
| relationships | relationships.md | Key people, dynamics, recent interactions |
| goals | goals.md | Active goals, progress, deadlines, abandoned goals |
| finances | finances.md | Income, expenses, investments, runway, financial goals |
| identity | identity.md | Values, beliefs, origin story, personality traits |
| coaching | coaching.md | Behavioral patterns, growth areas, accountability history |
Quality Rules
- Never invent information. Only compile what exists in MemPalace.
- Flag low-confidence inferences explicitly: "(inferred, not directly stated)"
- If two memories contradict, note the contradiction and timestamp both. Don't silently pick one.
- Keep it under 2000 words per domain. This is a brief, not an encyclopedia.
- Write in third person about the user: "[Name] works at..." not "You work at..."
Use the user's actual name from
personal/me.md. This keeps the compiled page readable as a reference document.