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Auto-Dream: Automatic Memory Consolidation [In Development]

Feature flag
tengu_onyx_plover Not enough to say

Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.

This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.78: no gate table built for this version

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What

A background process that automatically reviews recent session transcripts and consolidates insights into your memory files, similar to running a manual memory consolidation pass but triggered automatically.

Status

Feature-flagged via tengu_onyx_plover — disabled by default (enabled: !1).

Details
  • When enabled, triggers after a configurable minimum hours (default: 24h) and minimum sessions (default: 5) since last consolidation
  • Uses a .consolidate-lock file with PID-based locking to prevent concurrent consolidation
  • Runs as a forked background query with querySource: "auto_dream" that reads session transcripts and updates memory files
  • Includes throttling to prevent excessive scanning (minimum gap between scans)
  • The dream prompt instructs the model to orient by reading existing memories, gather signal from recent sessions, consolidate into topic files, and prune the index
  • Telemetry events: tengu_auto_dream_fired, tengu_auto_dream_completed, tengu_auto_dream_failed
Evidence

Dream infrastructure (search for "autoDream") — gated by tengu_onyx_plover flag (search for "tengu_onyx_plover")

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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