What
Improved guidance for managing the MEMORY.md file with recommendations for separate topic files.
Details
- New recommendation: "Create separate topic files (e.g.,
debugging.md,patterns.md) for detailed notes and link to them from MEMORY.md" - Warning when MEMORY.md is too long: "Move detailed content into separate topic files and keep MEMORY.md as a concise index"
- Documentation clarifies: "MEMORY.md is read from disk each turn and can be edited by the model"
Evidence
MEMORY.md guidance (search for "separate topic files")
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.