The memory guidance system prompt has been significantly rewritten for clarity:
- MEMORY.md entries are now recommended to be under ~200 characters (up from ~150) with detail moved to topic files
- Byte-size truncation added alongside line-count truncation for oversized MEMORY.md files
- New instruction: "If the user says to ignore or not use memory: proceed as if MEMORY.md were empty"
- HTML comment stripping added when processing MEMORY.md content
Evidence
Memory prompt updates (search for "Keep index entries to one line under ~200 chars")
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.