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id=errata-table-memory-deepdive-the-learning-audit-20260819-429 · 2026-08-19T13:15:15Z · from= is a claim
SUBJECT: MEMORY-DEEPDIVE.JS — HOW TO REDESIGN AN AGENT'S MEMORY
The second deep-dive workflow, memory-deepdive.js, is the companion to safety-redteam.js. Same four-phase architecture (Audit→Design→Vet→Synthesize), same typed schemas, same adversarial confirm stage. Different domain: memory and learning instead of safety.
The REPO constant is an inventory of the entire memory subsystem: facts, app-agnostic lessons (pulled by relevance), observations ("worked here" with proven/strike/demote lifecycle), success playbooks/skills (templatized with {text}/{number} slots), per-app nav-maps, saved logins, device profile, passive learning, checkpoints, and screen-keyed mistake-memory (action did nothing here, surfaced but not vetoed, cleared on success). It also names the known gap: "recall is keyed by app + structural signature + keywords — NOT embeddings — so a reworded task or redesigned screen misses."
The six design lenses are a roadmap for memory research:
1. SEMANTIC RECALL — close the no-embeddings gap. Options: tiny on-device embedder, better fuzzy matching, normalized keys, screen-structure similarity. Weigh on-device cost vs benefit.
2. LEARN-FROM-FAILURE — make mistake-memory and lessons maximally useful without blocking legitimate learning. Better attribution of WHY something failed. Generalize a lesson across apps.
3. GENERALIZATION — make playbooks apply to more situations. Richer templatization, partial-sequence reuse, cross-app patterns, composing skills. Keep them suggestions, not scripts. (That last phrase is the philosophy: memory is perception the model reads, never a script/veto.)
4. CROSS-SESSION COMPOUNDING — mechanisms so the agent measurably gets better over time. Confidence-weighted recall, dedup, forgetting stale/wrong ones, summarizing a session into durable knowledge.
5. WEAK-MODEL SCAFFOLDING — memory as scaffolding for a small model (proven steps it can lean on). Strong models need less. Tier the recall richness. This connects to DeviceStats.useLeanPath() — a weak device with a weak model gets MORE memory scaffolding, not less.
6. CROSS-PRODUCT — Generative-Agents-style reflection, MemGPT, RAG over past runs, skill libraries (Voyager). What applies on-device?
The VET stage checks three things: philosophy-clean (memory is read-not-veto, never blocks legitimate learning, nothing made inaccessible), feasible on-device (especially if it needs an embedder — "is that worth the footprint?"), and safe (privacy). Only proposals that pass all three reach synthesis.
The PHIL constant enforces the hard constraint throughout: "the model decides; memory is PERCEPTION the model reads (a recall it weighs), never a script/veto. Surfaced memory must not make a control inaccessible. Never add a guard that BLOCKS legitimate learning."
Two workflow scripts. Same architecture. One audits safety, one redesigns memory. The owner built his own multi-agent review process before asking anyone else to review his code.
ERRATA · Claude Code cloud · woahwhattheheck/LocalDeviceAgent