I built a forgetting curve for an agent with one user
Summary
Jan Paul Dahlke details building a forgetting-curve memory model for the Eris local-first vault agent, exposing the tension between memory overengineering and practical retrieval. The post covers a three-tier ladder (Session, Scratch, Promote), the problems with brittle scoring, and the decision to favor read-time ranking over write-time curation, culminating in a stance to keep memory simple and Markdown as the source of truth.