Shane Conner

pi-fold: Rotation and Retention

An agent session that outlives its context window is doing two jobs at once: rotating old material out of the window, and retaining what the session has learned. Compaction, the answer the field converged on, does both in one summarization pass, and it converged for a reason: it...

pi-canon: A Durable Fit

On the final capture of this programme, every result consulted in the treated arm came with a choice: let it leave the context window after one reply, or mark it durable and keep it in view. Across those 24 treated sessions on exact-value contract tasks, gpt-5.6-luna kept all 139...

pi-canon: The Write Desk

The first two pi-canon papers measured recall: whether a canonical project memory can be surfaced when it is needed, and what that recall costs. Both took for granted that what the store holds is true. This third report tests that assumption and finds it does not hold. The instru...

pi-canon: The Write Desk

The first two pi-canon papers measured recall: whether a canonical project memory can be surfaced when it is needed, and what that recall costs. Both took for granted that what the store holds is true. This third report tests that assumption and finds it does not hold. The instru...

pi-canon: Mutable Canonical Memory over an Immutable Journal, with Recall by Surfacing. Design, and a four-arm multi-session evaluation

Agent knowledge bases rot in two directed ways: agents scatter near-duplicate notes because nothing marks which article is the article for a topic, and they treat the store as a diary, burying current truth under event logs. pi-canon is a project-memory extension for the Pi codin...