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girvotoday at 2:09 AM1 replyview on HN

Interesting. I’ve been playing with something similar, at the coding agent harness message sequence level (memory, I guess). I’m looking at human driven UX for compaction and resolving/pruning dead ends


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silentsvntoday at 11:11 AM

Human-driven compaction is interesting — you sidestep the "what's worth keeping" problem by putting a person in the loop. The tradeoff I've hit is that agents running autonomously need it to happen automatically or coherence degrades fast between sessions.

For pruning we landed on a last-touched timestamp + recall frequency counter per memory. Things not accessed in N sessions that were weakly formed to begin with get soft-deleted. Human review before hard delete is probably better UX if your setup allows it.

Curious what "dead ends" look like in yours; conversational chains that didn't resolve, or factual ones?