Episodic Memory

Episodic memory remembers specific events. It answers "what happened?" and "when did we decide that?"

Examples

• A docs PR merged and production deployed.
• A daemon issue was traced to stale socket metadata.
• A release failed because a provider token expired.
• A design decision was made after comparing alternatives.

Relationship to the event log

The session ledger and event log are the raw evidence. Episodic memory is the human-sized summary: enough detail to recover the story, with links or ids back to the source when useful.

Do not replace evidence with vibes. A good episodic note names concrete dates, PRs, commits, commands, or symptoms when they matter.

Promotion

Episodic memory can later become persistent memory when the lesson is durable. For example, "PR #6 deployed" is episodic; "docs PRs need red/green guards before merge" may become persistent process memory.

See Memory search for recall patterns.