Memory Bank

The foundational Dotabase holding episodic memories — durable observations, decisions, rationale, and failures worth keeping across sessions. Rows are MEM-N.

Memory Bank is not a passive log. Its rows decay, are reinforced when they prove useful, and graduate into DOTs when they stabilize — the reinforcement schedule runs on FSRS (the spaced-repetition algorithm), with per-memory-type configuration. Agents grade a retrieved memory after use: grade 3 if it helped, grade 1 if it misled, with grade 4 reserved for John's own confirmation.

The recall discipline is bounded, not blanket: an agent runs a Memory Bank recall before non-trivial work on an existing surface, and again after two failed attempts at the same obstacle.

Usage examples

• "Episodic memories that decay, reinforce, and graduate into DOTs." (the Dotabase's own description)
• "After two failed attempts at the same obstacle, run one bounded memory recall before a third — cite MEM-N or state none found."
• "dots memory reinforce MEM-464 --grade 3 — that one saved us the flat-props failure again."

Source

AGENT-GOVERNANCE.md § Architecture (foundational Dotabases) and § Guardrails (the recall and grading rules); identity and FSRS model at SPEC-168 (DS_Memory-Bank); consumer contract at SPEC-385.