{"version":"2.1.301","anchor":"memory-extraction-gets-a-chat-prose-gate-behind-a-config-obj","canonical_anchor":"memoryextraction-config-schema-gains-idle-flush-prose-gate","heading":"Memory extraction can now wait for enough of your own writing","tier":"internal","area":"Memory","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301\/e\/memory-extraction-gets-a-chat-prose-gate-behind-a-config-obj","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301","markdown":"### Memory extraction can now wait for enough of your own writing\n\nAutomatic memory saving gains a chat-prose gate, a review window, an idle-flush minimum and a first-look pre-screen, all set by its config\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear what supplies these options, so it is unknown whether the new check is active for anyone.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code can pull useful facts out of a conversation and save them as memory for later sessions. The pass that does this now takes an optional config with new settings that control when it runs:\n\n- `proseGate` (`prose_gate`): `legacy` or `chat`. With `chat`, the pass is skipped unless you have written enough of your own text, set by `minProseWords` (`min_prose_words`), over a `reviewWindow` (`review_window`, at least `every_n_turns` and at least 1). Word counting now handles Chinese, Japanese and Korean text.\n\n- `idleFlushMinTurns` (`idle_flush_min_turns`): a minimum number of turns before a save triggered by idle time.\n\n- `whenOverage` (`when_overage`): `run`, `first_look` or `skip`, defaulting to `run`.\n\n- `firstLook` (`first_look`): a pre-screen with a `mode` of `off`, `shadow` or `enforce`, an `instruction`, a `model` and `max_input_chars`.\n\n- The every-N-turns count still reads `tengu_bramble_lintel` and then defaults to 1.\n\nWhen the pass is skipped, its log now says \"not enough user prose\" instead of \"no user prose since last extraction\". Its usage reports now include the gate in use and a rough word count, and the report for each pass adds `fork_model`, `turns_since_last_pass`, `prose_gate`, `prose_words_bucket`, `user_turns`, `own_words_turns`, `own_words_chars`, `task_notification_turns`, `unstamped_turns` and `idle_flush_min_turns`.\n\n**Why**\n\nThese settings change when memories are saved and how often the extra work runs. The values come from configuration, not a simple on or off switch, so what you see depends on how it is set.\n\n- Flag `tengu_bramble_lintel`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.301; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: not a boolean we can read) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: Memory\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}