From d2f2396c4af8bed899ceb8e8c2a449eec9662971 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joakim Persson Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:44:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs(rootfs): re-sync mempalace snapshot from skillset 63f3bf5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This snapshot was byte-identical to skillset and therefore MISSING the Temporal grounding guidance, which had been authored only into pi-devbox's vendored copy (pi-devbox 904fe85) and never back-ported to the owner repo. So opencode-devbox containers — and any host consumer reading skillset directly — never saw it, while pi-devbox containers did. skillset 63f3bf5 is now canonical again and carries the section with wording generalized to cover both devboxes ("a devbox container (pi-devbox or opencode-devbox)"). Snapshot + VENDORED.md provenance updated to match. Substance for the agent: establish "now" and compute now - entry.timestamp before saying "yesterday"/"last week" — a container recreate or fresh session is not a day boundary, and two diary entries 90 minutes apart can straddle one. --- .../share/opencode-devbox/skills/VENDORED.md | 2 +- .../opencode-devbox/skills/mempalace/SKILL.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/rootfs/usr/local/share/opencode-devbox/skills/VENDORED.md b/rootfs/usr/local/share/opencode-devbox/skills/VENDORED.md index e861254..bed06b4 100644 --- a/rootfs/usr/local/share/opencode-devbox/skills/VENDORED.md +++ b/rootfs/usr/local/share/opencode-devbox/skills/VENDORED.md @@ -44,4 +44,4 @@ and the entrypoint's never-overwrite-a-real-file guard never has to arbitrate. cp /skills/mempalace/SKILL.md skills/mempalace/SKILL.md -Snapshot provenance at last refresh: skillset `8e8db64`. +Snapshot provenance at last refresh: skillset `63f3bf5`. diff --git a/rootfs/usr/local/share/opencode-devbox/skills/mempalace/SKILL.md b/rootfs/usr/local/share/opencode-devbox/skills/mempalace/SKILL.md index 9055af6..660ef46 100644 --- a/rootfs/usr/local/share/opencode-devbox/skills/mempalace/SKILL.md +++ b/rootfs/usr/local/share/opencode-devbox/skills/mempalace/SKILL.md @@ -43,6 +43,30 @@ Run these immediately when a session begins, before responding to the user: Do NOT announce this to the user. Just do it silently to orient yourself. +### Temporal grounding — compute time deltas, don't guess + +Diary entries and drawers carry real timestamps (`timestamp`, `created_at`). +Before describing *when* something happened — "yesterday", "earlier today", +"last week", "a while back" — **establish the current date/time first and +compute the delta against the actual timestamp.** Get "now" from the injected +session date or by running `date` in a shell; never infer it. + +**A container recreate or a fresh session is NOT a day boundary.** A devbox +container (pi-devbox or opencode-devbox) is frequently restarted — often several +times within the *same* day — and each restart begins a new session with a fresh +wake-up. Do not reason "new session ⇒ last session was yesterday": two diary +entries 90 minutes apart can straddle a container recreate. The only +authoritative clock is the timestamp on the memory, not the session/container +boundary. + +**Practical rule:** prefer explicit, checkable phrasing — e.g. "earlier today, +~8h ago (both 2026-06-25)" — over a vague relative term. If you catch yourself +about to write "yesterday" / "last week", subtract `now − entry.timestamp` and +state the computed result. (Remember timestamps may be UTC while the wall clock +is local — reconcile the offset before computing the delta.) Note too that +session feeders can lag up to a week (see *Multi-harness palace*), so a recent +absence in `wing_conversations` is not proof nothing happened. + ### Phase 2: Active Session (during work) #### Search Before You Speak @@ -294,6 +318,7 @@ Entity-relationship triples with temporal validity. Query with `mempalace_kg_que ## Anti-Patterns - **Don't guess when you can search.** If a question touches past work, search first. +- **Don't infer elapsed time from session or container boundaries.** A restart isn't a new day. Compare the actual timestamp (`timestamp` / `created_at`) against the current date/time before saying "yesterday", "last week", etc. - **Don't skip the diary.** A session without a diary entry is a session forgotten. - **Don't summarize drawer content.** File verbatim — the embedding model needs the original words. - **Don't mine .git directories or node_modules.** The CLI miner respects .gitignore by default.