cortex-consolidate SKILL.md skillA
cortex-consolidate from cdeust/cortex is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cdeust/cortex/cortex-consolidate@git:20260327.890ae58Pins git:20260327.890ae58 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
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Run memory maintenance — decay old memories, compress stale content, consolidate episodic memories into semantic knowledge, and run sleep-like replay. Use when the user says 'clean up memories', 'consolidate', 'run maintenance', 'compress old memories', 'memory cleanup', or periodically to keep the memory system healthy. Also use after importing many memories or at the end of a long session.
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What the file says
# Consolidate — Memory Maintenance and Evolution
## Keywords
consolidate, maintenance, cleanup, compress, decay, merge, evolve, sleep, replay, consolidation, memory health, prune, clean up, optimize memories, reduce noise
## Overview
Run the full memory maintenance pipeline — modeled after biological memory consolidation. This includes heat decay (cooling unused memories), compression (full text to gist to tags), CLS consolidation (episodic to semantic), causal graph discovery, and sleep-like replay that strengthens important memory clusters.
**Use this skill when:** After a long session, after bulk imports, periodically (weekly), or when memory_stats shows too many hot memories or high noise.
## Workflow
### Step 1: Run Full Consolidation
```
cortex:consolidate({})
```
This runs the complete pipeline:
1. **Decay cycle** — Cool memories by heat * decay_factor. Memories below cold threshold (0.05) become candidates for compression
2. **Compression** — Old memories compress through stages: full text (7+ days) to gist, gist (30+ days) to tags
3. **CLS consolidation** — Frequently-accessed episodic memories promote to semantic store (like hippocampal-to-cortical transfer)
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How to install
mdr add cdeust/cortex/cortex-consolidate@sha256:78e9bc2e215fd527The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260327.890ae58, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
cdeust/cortex · 76 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
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