# Review memories loaded upon Ace wake up

**Linear:** MAN-9 — https://linear.app/manglasabang/issue/MAN-9/review-memories-loaded-upon-ace-wake-up
**Status:** Done
**Project:** junwonhome

## Description
Review and optimize what memories are loaded when Ace wakes up.

## Outcome

**Load order** ([session-start.sh](<http://session-start.sh>)):

 1. identity/JUNWON.md
 2. identity/ACE.md
 3. identity/TOOLS.md
 4. identity/GUARDRAILS.md
 5. identity/TASK-MANAGEMENT.md
 6. identity/core-memories.md
 7. last-one-week/\*.md (daily notes, up to 7)
 8. last-one-month/\*.md (weekly compilations, up to 4)
 9. last-one-year/\*.md (monthly compilations, up to 12)
10. each-past-year/\*.md (annual files, 1 per year)

## Changes Made

* [SOUL.md](<http://SOUL.md>) merged into [ACE.md](<http://ACE.md>), original deleted
* Created `last-one-year/` directory for monthly compilations
* Fixed reflection.ts: monthly output → last-one-year/, annual reads from last-one-year/ and outputs to each-past-year/
* Moved session-start inline command to `.claude/hooks/session-start.sh`
* [ACE.md](<http://ACE.md>) deduplicated: removed 70-line Tasks section (was duplicate of [TASK-MANAGEMENT.md](<http://TASK-MANAGEMENT.md>))
* [TOOLS.md](<http://TOOLS.md>): removed meta-explanation filler
* Total memory: 6,107 → 4,203 words after Opus review pass

## Automated Compaction

Added `checkCompaction()` to reflection.ts. Runs after temporal compilations in the heartbeat. Any file over its word trigger gets rewritten to its target by Opus, which reads ALL memory files first for full context.

## Word Limits

| File | \# files | Trigger | Target | Max possible | Compacted |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| [JUNWON.md](<http://JUNWON.md>) | 1 | 600 | 300 | 600 | 300 |
| [ACE.md](<http://ACE.md>) | 1 | 3,000 | 1,500 | 3,000 | 1,500 |
| [TOOLS.md](<http://TOOLS.md>) | 1 | 600 | 300 | 600 | 300 |
| [GUARDRAILS.md](<http://GUARDRAILS.md>) | 1 | 1,000 | 500 | 1,000 | 500 |
| [TASK-MANAGEMENT.md](<http://TASK-MANAGEMENT.md>) | 1 | 1,000 | 500 | 1,000 | 500 |
| [core-memories.md](<http://core-memories.md>) | 1 | 1,000 | 500 | 1,000 | 500 |
| last-one-week/ | 7 | 300 | 150 | 2,100 | 1,050 |
| last-one-month/ | 4 | 400 | 200 | 1,600 | 800 |
| last-one-year/ | 12 | 100 | 50 | 1,200 | 600 |
| each-past-year/ | n (1/yr) | 500 | 300 | 500n | 300n |
| **Total** |  |  |  | **12,100 + 500n** | **6,050 + 300n** |

Target: 10K tokens (\~7,500 words). When total exceeds \~15K tokens, compact everything to targets.