config.example.json

{
  "data_dir": ".remember",
  "cooldowns": {
    "save_seconds": 120,
    "ndc_seconds": 3600,
    "git_backup_seconds": 900
  },
  "thresholds": {
    "min_human_messages": 3,
    "delta_lines_trigger": 50,
    "extract_max_bytes": 300000
  },
  "features": {
    "ndc_compression": true,
    "recovery": true
  },
  "debug": false,
  "time_format": "24h",
  "model": "haiku",
  "reject_pattern": "",

  "_comments": {
    "model": [
      "Model for the summarize/consolidate calls (claude -p). Default 'haiku'.",
      "Set 'sonnet' (or another tier) to improve salience + compression-cap",
      "compliance; the call is backgrounded so there is no interactive cost.",
      "An explicit REMEMBER_MODEL env var overrides this."
    ],
    "reject_pattern": [
      "Reject-gate regex keeping model refusals/clarifications out of memory.",
      "'' -> the narrow built-in default (anchored refusal stems only).",
      "'none' -> gate disabled (only the literal SKIP contract applies).",
      "anything else -> a custom case-insensitive regex; invalid falls back to",
      "the default. An explicit REMEMBER_REJECT_PATTERN env var overrides this."
    ],
    "data_dir": [
      "Controls where memory data files are stored.",
      "",
      "Legacy default — project-relative (unchanged behaviour):",
      "  '.remember'  →  {project_dir}/.remember",
      "",
      "External mode — absolute or home-relative path:",
      "  '~/.remember/{slug}'  →  ~/.remember/<session-dir-slug>/",
      "  '/var/lib/remember/{slug}'  →  /var/lib/remember/<slug>/",
      "",
      "{slug} is replaced by the same slug Claude Code uses for",
      "~/.claude/projects/<slug>/, so each project gets its own",
      "isolated subtree. The .gitignore is NOT written in external",
      "mode — manage the ~/.remember/ tree as your own private repo.",
      "",
      "User-global config lives at ~/.remember/config.json and is",
      "merged on top of this file (per-project overrides user-global",
      "which overrides these shipped defaults). See config.user.example.json."
    ]
  }
}