samagotchi 0.39.0 → 0.40.0

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data/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,35 @@ and commands may change between minor versions. How releases are made:
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.40.0] - 2026-10-08
+
+### Added
+
+- Experimental: the `forget` layer of `llm_context.strategy` (`[stale, forget]`, per model or host as ever). That
+  model gets a tool, `forget_outputs`, to forget its own tool outputs: each output shows an id (`[#t41]`), and a
+  forget replaces the outputs named with a stub holding the model's note (required; the session keeps the outputs).
+  `keep` keeps lines of an output, `restore` brings a non-read one back; outputs of the last `protect_steps` steps,
+  and reads of files edited in them unless lines are kept, are refused. The stubs reach the prompt under
+  `llm_context.apply`. `llm_context.policy` is the sentence the tool's description carries. Off, the tool list and the
+  prompt are what they were. See [docs/configuration.md](docs/configuration.md) ("LLM context: the forget layer").
+- `llm_context.budget_tokens` (and per model or host `llm_context_budget_tokens`), off by default: a soft context
+  budget the `[CONTEXT: …]` lines count against instead of the window. Under `forget` those lines show
+  `~N/M tokens in use` and offer the tool in tiers (a readout, then "tidy once", then "compact settled outputs now"),
+  at a turn's start, mid-turn only in the top tier.
+- The replay bench's `forget_outputs` strategy asks a model at chi's forget offer and scores its picks, call rate and
+  notes (`--forget-model`, `--out`, `--budget`, `--max-cost`).
+
+### Changed
+
+- Web: session cards no longer show the "mem N" chip, leaving room for the delegate chip; the card's tooltip and the
+  open session's info bar still list the memories used.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Web: a session card's hover tooltip (id, update time, status, memories) was empty since 0.35.0.
+
+Update with `chi update`: it updates loop-guard (0.3.6: ignores `forget_outputs`).
+
 ## [0.39.0] - 2026-10-07
 
 ### Added
@@ -1874,7 +1903,8 @@ and long-lived sessions.
 - A macOS desktop helper (`chi desktop install`): a "Send to chi" Service and a
   hotkey panel that send selected text or the clipboard to your sessions.
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/dm1try/samagotchi/compare/v0.39.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/dm1try/samagotchi/compare/v0.40.0...HEAD
+[0.40.0]: https://github.com/dm1try/samagotchi/compare/v0.39.0...v0.40.0
 [0.39.0]: https://github.com/dm1try/samagotchi/compare/v0.38.0...v0.39.0
 [0.38.0]: https://github.com/dm1try/samagotchi/compare/v0.37.0...v0.38.0
 [0.37.0]: https://github.com/dm1try/samagotchi/compare/v0.36.0...v0.37.0

data/docs/configuration.md

@@ -855,6 +855,51 @@ file is read.
 To skip loading AGENT.md, set `skip_agent_md: true` at the top level of
 `config.yml` (env `SAMAGOTCHI_SKIP_AGENT_MD=true`).
 
+## LLM context: the forget layer
+
+Experimental, off by default. With `forget` in a model's `llm_context.strategy` (next to `stale`), chi offers that
+model a tool, `forget_outputs`, to free context by forgetting its own tool outputs. Nothing changes for a model
+without it: no ids, no tool, the same prompt.
+
+```yaml
+llm_context:
+  budget_tokens: 64000        # optional: the [CONTEXT: …] lines count against 64k, not the window
+models:
+  deepseek-v4.1-flash:
+    llm_context_strategy: [stale, forget]
+    llm_context_apply: next_request
+```
+
+- **Ids.** Every tool output the model sees starts with its id after the tool's name, `[read]` then `[#t41] …`.
+  Outputs a session saved before chi gave them ids show none and can't be forgotten.
+- **Forgetting.** `forget_outputs(ids: ["t41", "t42"], note: "…")` replaces each output with a stub holding the note
+  (`[read] [#t41] (forgotten) …`); the call stays, and the session keeps the outputs. The note is required. Outputs
+  one call forgot that follow one another carry the note once: the rest say `(forgotten with t41: see its note)`.
+  `keep: ["t42:12-40"]` forgets t42 except those lines, which follow its stub: a read's lines are the file's line
+  numbers (a read from `start_line` 120 starts at 120), other outputs count from 1.
+- **Refused, per id, with the reason in the result:** an output from the last `llm_context.protect_steps` steps
+  before the forget's own (1: the output the model just got); a read of a file edited or written in them, unless the
+  forget keeps lines of it; a keep outside the output's lines, of a big file's head/tail preview, or holding all of
+  it; an output too small for a stub to free anything; one already stubbed or forgotten; an unknown id, or one whose
+  output chi can't pair with its call for sure (it shows no id). The system prompt, user messages, steers and context
+  notes have no ids.
+- **When stubs reach the prompt** follows `llm_context.apply`, as `stale`'s do: the result says
+  `applied, the next request sends the stubs (frees …)` or `staged until the turn ends`.
+- **Restore.** `forget_outputs(restore: ["t45"])` brings a forgotten output back with the next request, whatever
+  `llm_context.apply` says (the model wants the text now; the result says what the server reads again); a non-read
+  stub says `[restore: t45]`. A read whose stub was sent isn't restored (read the file again: it may have changed); one
+  still staged is.
+- **The description** carries the note contract (facts carried forward, quoted, marked VERIFIED or UNVERIFIED; what
+  was ruled out, with the reason and "do not retry"; the commands tried; a NEXT line), the cost of an edit (the
+  server reads everything after it again: forget in one batch, older outputs first) and `llm_context.policy`.
+- **Offers.** Under `forget` the `[CONTEXT: …]` line becomes a readout, `~52k/64k tokens in use`, and offers the tool
+  in tiers, never "forget now": the readout alone in the lower guided buckets; "finish the unit of work in flight,
+  then tidy once" in the bucket under the top; "compact settled outputs now: keep what you'll still edit against;
+  don't wipe" in the top bucket or over `llm_context.budget_tokens`. They come at a turn's first request (the turn
+  before it answered); mid-turn only the top tier offers. Over the budget the compact offer comes every turn.
+- `/stats` counts the re-prefilled tokens each applied batch costs; `script/llm_context_bench.rb --strategy
+  forget_outputs` replays the offer on stored sessions (docs/internals/llm-context-bench.md).
+
 ## All settings
 
 Every setting below takes the three forms described in
@@ -917,12 +962,15 @@ described in their own sections.
 | `context.status` | `true` | yes | Context-usage telemetry for the model. See [context telemetry](internals/context-telemetry.md). |
 | `context.window_tokens` | server's, else 256000 | yes | Context window when the server doesn't report one. `models.<key>.window_tokens` and `hosts.<name>.window_tokens` come first; see "The context window". |
 | `models.<key>.window_tokens`, `hosts.<name>.window_tokens` | none | | A model's or host's context window when the server and its model list report none. |
-| `llm_context.strategy` | `none` | | What the model is sent of the conversation: `none` (everything, unchanged), or a list of layers (`stale`, `forget`; `"\|"`-separated or a YAML list). `stale`: a file read that a later read covering its lines superseded (a read that came back whole: not the head/tail preview of a big file, nor cut at `max_tool_output_chars`) is sent as a stub (`[read] lib/x.rb lines 1-200: superseded by a later read`). With `llm_context.stale_edits: true` (opt-in, experimental) so is a read a later successful edit or write of the file superseded (`superseded by a later edit`); on the replay bench these stubs cost about 5x the tokens they free in re-prefill, and 26% of them were needed again (against a 6% base rate). No read of a file edited or written in the last `llm_context.protect_steps` steps is stubbed. When stubs reach the prompt is `llm_context.apply`: `next_request` sends a read a later read superseded from the next request, and an edit-driven stub at the end of a turn the model answered; `turn_end` sends them all at the end of a turn the model answered (a turn that ran out of steps keeps them staged; on the native loop against a local llama.cpp the turn-end warm-up prefills the edited prompt, elsewhere the next turn's first request carries the cache break); `payoff` sends the batch at a request when the tokens it frees are at least the tail after its earliest stub (what the server reads again), or the context is in the top `context.status_thresholds` bucket (which needs `context.status` on), else at the end of a turn the model answered. A re-read's tail holds the later read, so in practice payoff usually waits for the turn's end. Each batch breaks the prompt cache from its earliest stub; `/stats` counts the re-prefilled tokens. The session keeps the outputs and the stubs it sent, so a `--resume` sends the same. `forget` isn't built yet: a list with it warns and is `none`; an unknown name warns and is `none`. `models.<key>.llm_context_strategy` and `hosts.<name>.llm_context_strategy` come first. |
-| `models.<key>.llm_context_strategy`, `hosts.<name>.llm_context_strategy` | none | | A model's or host's `llm_context.strategy` (`none` or `stale` for now). |
+| `llm_context.strategy` | `none` | | What the model is sent of the conversation: `none` (everything, unchanged), or a list of layers (`stale`, `forget`; `"\|"`-separated or a YAML list). `stale`: a file read that a later read covering its lines superseded (a read that came back whole: not the head/tail preview of a big file, nor cut at `max_tool_output_chars`) is sent as a stub (`[read] lib/x.rb lines 1-200: superseded by a later read`). With `llm_context.stale_edits: true` (opt-in, experimental) so is a read a later successful edit or write of the file superseded (`superseded by a later edit`); on the replay bench these stubs cost about 5x the tokens they free in re-prefill, and 26% of them were needed again (against a 6% base rate). No read of a file edited or written in the last `llm_context.protect_steps` steps is stubbed. When stubs reach the prompt is `llm_context.apply`: `next_request` sends a read a later read superseded from the next request, and an edit-driven stub at the end of a turn the model answered; `turn_end` sends them all at the end of a turn the model answered (a turn that ran out of steps keeps them staged; on the native loop against a local llama.cpp the turn-end warm-up prefills the edited prompt, elsewhere the next turn's first request carries the cache break); `payoff` sends the batch at a request when the tokens it frees are at least the tail after its earliest stub (what the server reads again), or the context is in the top `context.status_thresholds` bucket (which needs `context.status` on), else at the end of a turn the model answered. A re-read's tail holds the later read, so in practice payoff usually waits for the turn's end. Each batch breaks the prompt cache from its earliest stub; `/stats` counts the re-prefilled tokens. The session keeps the outputs and the stubs it sent, so a `--resume` sends the same. `forget` (experimental) offers the model the `forget_outputs` tool; see "LLM context: the forget layer". An unknown name warns and is `none`. `models.<key>.llm_context_strategy` and `hosts.<name>.llm_context_strategy` come first. |
+| `models.<key>.llm_context_strategy`, `hosts.<name>.llm_context_strategy` | none | | A model's or host's `llm_context.strategy`. |
 | `llm_context.apply` | `payoff` | | When a layer's edits reach the prompt (each batch breaks the prompt cache from its earliest edit): `payoff`, `next_request` or `turn_end`. An unknown value warns and is `payoff`. `models.<key>.llm_context_apply` and `hosts.<name>.llm_context_apply` come first. |
 | `models.<key>.llm_context_apply`, `hosts.<name>.llm_context_apply` | none | | A model's or host's `llm_context.apply`. |
 | `llm_context.stale_edits` | `false` | | Opt-in, experimental: `stale` also stubs a read that a later successful edit or write of the file superseded. |
-| `llm_context.protect_steps` | `3` | | `stale` never stubs a read of a file edited or written in the last N steps (tool batches; counted across the whole conversation, not only the turn). `0` turns the protection off. |
+| `llm_context.protect_steps` | `3` | | `stale` never stubs a read of a file edited or written in the last N steps (tool batches; counted across the whole conversation, not only the turn). `0` turns the protection off. Under `forget`, `forget_outputs` refuses an output from the last N steps, and a read of a file edited or written in them unless the forget keeps some of its lines. |
+| `llm_context.budget_tokens` | none | | A soft context budget in tokens (e.g. `64000`); off when unset or `0`. When set, the context status buckets (`context.status_thresholds`) count against it instead of the window (the smaller of the two), so the `[CONTEXT: …]` lines, `payoff`'s top bucket and, under `forget`, the `forget_outputs` offers come under it. `models.<key>.llm_context_budget_tokens` and `hosts.<name>.llm_context_budget_tokens` come first. |
+| `models.<key>.llm_context_budget_tokens`, `hosts.<name>.llm_context_budget_tokens` | none | | A model's or host's `llm_context.budget_tokens`. |
+| `llm_context.policy` | the subtask-boundaries line | | The sentence `forget_outputs`' description carries (the `forget` layer): "Tidy at subtask boundaries: once a subtask is done, forget its tool outputs and note what it established; keep anything you'll still edit against." Blank: none. Read when a session starts. |
 | `context.chars_per_token` | `4.0` | yes | Estimate ratio when the server reports no usage. |
 | `context.status_thresholds` | `20,40,60,80` | yes | Percentages that trigger a status. |
 | `context.status_cadence` | `0` | yes | Also every N rounds; `0` = thresholds only. |

data/docs/hooks.md

@@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ stripped of surrounding whitespace, except file text, an edit's
 | `delegate` | `task` | — | `model`, `session`, `cwd`, `wait`, `timeout` |
 | `delegate_result` | — | — | `session`, `timeout` |
 | `ask_user_question` | `question` | — | `question`, `options`, `header`, `multi_select`, `allow_freeform` |
+| `forget_outputs` | `note` | — | `ids`, `note`, `keep`, `restore` |
 
 A `write`'s `content:` is the file text; an `edit` carries `old_text:` and
 `new_text:` (its `content:` is `""`). A plugin or MCP tool's call has its

data/docs/internals/context-telemetry.md

@@ -31,6 +31,22 @@ Emission behavior:
   `context.status_thresholds` the top bucket reads critical, the one below it
   elevated, the next moderate, and the first bucket (and the rest below) healthy.
 
+Under an LLM context strategy (`ContextStatus.new(llm_context:)`, the turn's `LLMContextStrategy::Resolved`, given by
+both loops):
+
+- `llm_context.budget_tokens` (or a model's or host's `llm_context_budget_tokens`): the buckets count against the
+  budget instead of the window, the smaller of the two. The event's `window_tokens` and the status line's percentage
+  are of it too, and so is `payoff`'s top bucket.
+- The forget layer replaces the guidance with tiered offers of `forget_outputs`, each line a readout,
+  `[CONTEXT: ~52k/64k tokens in use (bucket=60plus). …]`: the readout alone in the guided buckets below the top two
+  (CLM: how-to at low pressure makes a model wipe everything); "Finish the unit of work in flight, then tidy once
+  with forget_outputs: …" in the one under the top; "Compact settled outputs now with forget_outputs: keep what
+  you'll still edit against; don't wipe." in the top bucket, or over the budget (`observe`'s absolute check). They
+  come at a turn's first request (`iteration_index` 0: the turn before answered, its outputs are settled) on a rise,
+  again when the conversation's last line was the readout alone, and every turn while over the budget; mid-turn a
+  rise offers only in the top tier, a lower one gets the readout alone (the layout check: pushed mid-task, models
+  forget at the base rate). See internals/llm-context-forget.md.
+
 Configuration:
 
 - `SAMAGOTCHI_CONTEXT_STATUS` (`true` by default): set to `false` or `0` to disable telemetry.

data/docs/internals/llm-context-bench.md

@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ The proxies are the context-edit spike's (lexical and lenient: a basename mentio
 
 - `none`: nothing changes. The base.
 - `forget_all`: at the turn's end, forget every output in context with an empty note. The spike's base rate; about
-  what a model told "free context now" does.
+  what a model told "free context now" does. Its stubs, and the picks', go through the view as chi sends forgets: a
+  call's note on the first of its outputs in a row and a pointer to it on the rest, and `[#tN]` ids on every output
+  with a stored id (P4).
 - `stale`: chi's own stale layer (`Samagotchi::LLMContextStale`) as chi runs it: each read a later read covering its
   lines superseded is stubbed from the request after that read (chi applies it at the next request), so a case's
   numbers count every stub since the session began. An edit or write of the file supersedes nothing, nor does a read
@@ -67,13 +69,25 @@ The proxies are the context-edit spike's (lexical and lenient: a basename mentio
   modelled (the bench has no window), so `payoff` applies at a request only when the freed tokens are at least the
   tail. A turn-end batch's re-prefill is counted at the next turn's first request even where chi's warm-up would
   prefill it while the user reads.
-- `forget_outputs` (P4): a slot. It prints "not built yet" until its phase adds it to
-  `LLMContextBench::Strategies`; a strategy answers `#plans(kase)` with `Plan`s of `PlannedEdit`s (the output id, the
-  edit kind, the note, the request it first reaches), and the scorer and the report take it as is.
+- `forget_outputs` (P4): chi's forget layer as chi offers it, at each case: the next turn's first request, after a
+  turn the model answered. The request is what chi sends there under `[stale, forget]`, built by chi's own code: the
+  conversation up to and with the next user message (outputs of a legacy entry get ids as chi gives new ones),
+  stale's stubs, every output led by its `[#tN]` id (`LLMContextView`), the `[CONTEXT: …]` line chi's `ContextStatus`
+  adds at a turn's start under `--budget N` (default 64000; no line below its guided buckets, so a small case may get
+  none), and the chat messages and tools of chi's `ChatLoop`, `forget_outputs` with its real description. The model
+  (`--forget-model MODEL`, a chi model ref on an `api: openai` host) answers once; a `forget_outputs` call among its
+  calls runs through chi's `LLMContextForget` (refusals, `protect_steps`, `keep`), and the row scores stale's stubs
+  plus the forgets. Each answer is saved in `--out DIR` (`<case>.forget_offer.json`) and read back, so a rerun asks
+  only for the rest (an error isn't saved); `--out` alone scores saved answers; `--max-cost USD` stops the asking
+  once the costs the server reports reach it (exit 1, the answers so far kept). The row's notes give the call rate
+  (`called`, `no_call`, `error`, `unasked`), the ids chi refused and the notes' mean length. Ids in this row cost
+  tokens too: its freed column is net of them.
 - `--picks LABEL=DIR`: model picks recorded as responses, one file per pick, `<case>.<variant>.json` (the spike's
   `out/<model>/` files, or what `--live` saves). The variant is the row's policy, the label its model.
 
 ```sh
+ruby script/llm_context_bench.rb "$SESSIONS" --strategy none,stale,forget_outputs --forget-model splash:MODEL \
+  --out answers/splash --budget 48000 --cases cases.txt --per-case
 ruby script/llm_context_bench.rb "$SESSIONS" --strategy none,forget_all,stale --per-case
 ruby script/llm_context_bench.rb "$SESSIONS" --strategy none,stale,stale_edits_turn_end,stale_edits_payoff --ends any
 ruby script/llm_context_bench.rb "$SESSIONS" --picks deepseek=picks/deepseek --picks splash=picks/splash --json

data/docs/internals/llm-context-forget.md

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# The forget layer: forget_outputs
+
+`llm_context.strategy` with `forget` (experimental; user docs: configuration.md, "LLM context: the forget layer")
+lets the model forget its own tool outputs. The pieces:
+
+- **The tool list is per turn.** `Tools::Registry` entries may name an LLM context layer (`layer: :forget`);
+  `#entries/#names/#schemas(layers:)` and `#offered(name, layers:)` leave a gated tool out unless the turn runs under
+  its layer. The turn's layers are `LLMContextStrategy::Resolved#active_layers` (`[]` under none): the native system
+  prompt declares them (`SystemPrompt#build(layers:)`, `Engine#system_prompt` resolving the target's strategy), the
+  chat loop sends them (`ChatLoop#tool_definitions`), the kernel dispatches and lists them (`KernelLoop#dispatch`).
+  Under none and `[stale]` the tool list, the system prompt and the wire requests are what they were. A model switch
+  that changes the layers changes the tool list; it breaks the prompt cache anyway.
+- **Ids** (`LLMContextView`, plan D2): with `:forget` among the view's layers every output with a stored id
+  (`ToolIds`, `tool_ids` on the entry) is sent as `[name]` lead, then `[#tN] `, then its text; derived ids of legacy
+  entries are never shown or forgettable.
+- **The schema** is `ToolDeclarations.forget_outputs_schema(policy:)` (not in `TOOL_SCHEMAS`, which every turn
+  declares; `BUILTIN_SCHEMAS` adds it for `BuiltinCalls`). Its description (about 330 tokens by chars/4, 515 with the
+  parameters) carries the spike's refined text, `llm_context.policy` (read when the Engine builds its registry), the
+  note contract and the cost lesson. Parameters: `ids`, `note`, `keep` (`"t42:12-40"`: forget t42 except
+  those lines; a read's are file lines, kept with the edit's `keep_offset`, start_line - 1), `restore`, none required
+  (a restore needs no note); `Tools::ForgetOutputs.parse` reads ids and ranges from lists, JSON strings or words.
+- **The call** (`KernelLoop#forget_outputs`, through the handler's kctx as ask_user_question does) runs
+  `LLMContextForget.call` on the running turn (`KernelLoop#llm_context_turn`, a `LLMContextForget::Turn` of the
+  turn's conversation and ContextStatus that both loops set as a turn starts). It names only outputs that pair with
+  their calls for sure (`LLMContextStale.paired_runs`: by tool_call_id, or a joined entry's runs by their calls'
+  `[name]` leads); the view shows ids only on those. The conversation's last step is the forget's own (both loops
+  add the model's entry before its calls run). Per id it refuses (with the reason in the result): an output of the
+  `protect_steps` steps before that one; a read `LLMContextStale.protected_ids` names (a file edited or written in
+  those steps, counted with the forget's own: `protect_steps + 1`) unless the forget keeps lines of it; a keep
+  outside the output's lines, of a preview, or holding all of it; an output of `SMALL` (80) chars or less; an output
+  with an edit already; an unknown id. What passes is saved as a staged `LLMContextEdit` of kind `:forget` (`by:
+  "model"`, the note, `keep`), and the apply rule runs at once as at a request (`KernelLoop#apply_llm_context!`), so
+  the result can say whether the batch goes with the next request or waits for the turn's end. `LLMContextApply`'s
+  protect_steps hold covers stale's stubs only: a forget was checked when it was made.
+- **Restore** takes the forget off the entry (`LLMContextEdit.remove`, a new edits Hash); the next request sends the
+  output again, outside the apply rule (the result says the tail the server reads again, and `ContextStatus#edited!`
+  restarts the estimate). A read whose stub was sent isn't restored; a staged one is.
+- **Stubs** (`LLMContextView`): `(forgotten) <note>` on the first output of a call's forgets in a row, `(forgotten
+  with tN: see its note)` on the rest (a run of the same note, author and stamp, no other output between them),
+  ` [restore: tN]` on a non-read with a stored id, then each kept range under `lines A-B kept:`. The entry keeps its
+  role, tool_call_id and images bookkeeping as for stale.
+- **Offers**: `ContextStatus` (internals/context-telemetry.md).
+- **Persistence**: the edits ride on the entries (plan D3), so `--resume`, rollbacks and forks keep the stubs and the
+  restores; `/stats` counts each applied batch's re-prefill.
+- **Measuring**: the bench's `forget_outputs` strategy (internals/llm-context-bench.md).

data/docs/plugins.md

@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ bundles:
   loop-guard:
     deny_after: 2        # same call, same result this many times: deny the next one
     stop_after: 4        # stop the turn at this many denies
-    ignore_tools: [task_wait, task_get, delegate_result, list_sessions, list_reminders, context_read]
+    ignore_tools: [task_wait, task_get, delegate_result, list_sessions, list_reminders, context_read, forget_outputs]
     mode: deny           # deny | notify: notify only warns, once per call per turn
 ```
 

data/docs/testing.md

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ a model that follows tool instructions: a small model may fail some of them.
 ## The llm_context replay benchmark
 
 `ruby script/llm_context_bench.rb SESSIONS_DIR` replays stored sessions offline and scores the LLM context
-strategies (freed tokens, wrongly forgotten outputs, one-step re-reads, re-prefilled tokens). It is opt-in: the suite
+strategies (freed tokens, wrongly forgotten outputs, one-step re-reads, re-prefilled tokens; for `forget_outputs` a
+model's answers to chi's offer, with its call rate and notes). It is opt-in: the suite
 runs its code only on small synthetic sessions, never on yours. See
 [internals/llm-context-bench.md](internals/llm-context-bench.md).

data/lib/samagotchi/bundles/loop-guard/manifest.yml

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 ---
 name: loop-guard
-version: 0.3.5
+version: 0.3.6
 scope: system
 description: "Breaks loops: the same tool call with the same result again and again in one turn is denied with advice (after a few denies the turn stops with a card), and thinking that repeats itself while it streams is cut and the model asked again"
 trust_level: reviewed
 plugin:
   file: plugin.rb
-  sha256: sha256:8a29110dd54a8fd345ae25d81fa7718f31443a2b18602d778613cbfcbc315033
+  sha256: sha256:ab71b6f2aee6ad15bbe494cf0e8943046ee94dbf5d56149bd507725e8a9790fe
 requires_chi: ">= 0.6.0"

data/lib/samagotchi/bundles/loop-guard/plugin.rb

@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ class ThinkingWatch
 end
 
 class Plugin
-  DEFAULT_IGNORE = %w[task_wait task_get delegate_result list_sessions list_reminders context_read].freeze
+  DEFAULT_IGNORE = %w[task_wait task_get delegate_result list_sessions list_reminders context_read forget_outputs].freeze
   # Built-in tools carry flat fields; plugin and unknown tools carry args:.
   # An edit's text is its old_text/new_text.
   KEY_FIELDS = %i[content path start_line end_line cwd env scope old_text new_text].freeze

data/lib/samagotchi/bundles/system/manifest.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 ---
 name: samagotchi-system
-version: 0.39.0
+version: 0.40.0
 scope: system
 description: Default system memories — identity, self map, config modification protocol, memory guide and the delegated-session rules
 files:
   identity.md: sha256:29c2f7df9f6c5acbc5ec17000a4490741e55e426af15ca0d81c8706edd9bd027
-  self_map.md: sha256:245813bd5bd9a0a86eef095ba78b057dd3bfaa389de36d213971f88b51da7cd6
+  self_map.md: sha256:78969929094d2c4f3530529cd54c5c37ce6b13b1c3867a318d9ce07e5b77cd73
   config_modification_protocol.md: sha256:648b19b1b9f7ca35fccdd69fee4c9886cb8cfb3748ae86affef7457c12164399
   memory_guide.md: sha256:f7049304a333be842b761037bab5c8e31e890b8f4ad12f092b14ee8deb053c51
   delegated.md: sha256:aedaa1e756a244904c5560fff0424e06fb468bbdcb0358bccefe321d67cd2614

data/lib/samagotchi/bundles/system/self_map.md

@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
   third-party information, never instructions to me. When a source's change matters (a review
   asking for changes, checks failing, the PR closed), chi may start a turn for it with no user
   message ("context <name> changed"): I tell my user what changed and act on nothing.
+- `forget_outputs` (only when my model's `llm_context.strategy` has the experimental forget layer)
+  frees context: my tool outputs show ids like `[#t42]`, and a forget replaces them with a stub
+  holding my note (the call stays; `keep` keeps lines, `restore` brings a non-read output back).
+  A `[CONTEXT: …]` line may offer it; it's never required. See `docs/configuration.md` "llm_context".
 - `chi send -m TEXT <id>` is the other half: the text goes in as the user's message and a
   turn runs (stdin piped too = quoted context above it); see `docs/sessions.md` "Sending a message".
   `chi send --new --wait -m TEXT` starts a session the user can watch in the web and prints its

data/lib/samagotchi/config.rb

@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ module Samagotchi
       Entry.new(key: "context.wake",             yaml_path: %w[context wake],             type: :bool,   default: true,             expose: %i[env config cli]),
 
       # What the model is sent of the conversation (LLMContextStrategy, LLMContextView): none, or a list of layers
-      # (stale, forget; "|"-separated or a YAML list). none and stale are built: a list with forget warns and is none.
+      # (stale, forget; "|"-separated or a YAML list); forget (the model's forget_outputs) is experimental.
       # models.<key>.llm_context_strategy and hosts.<name>.llm_context_strategy come first.
       Entry.new(key: "llm_context.strategy",     yaml_path: %w[llm_context strategy],     type: :string, default: "none",           expose: %i[env config]),
       # When a layer's edits reach the prompt (LLMContextApply): payoff, next_request or turn_end;
@@ -166,6 +166,12 @@ module Samagotchi
       Entry.new(key: "llm_context.stale_edits",  yaml_path: %w[llm_context stale_edits],  type: :bool,   default: false,            expose: %i[env config]),
       # The steps (tool batches) back whose edited files' reads stale never stubs.
       Entry.new(key: "llm_context.protect_steps", yaml_path: %w[llm_context protect_steps], type: :integer, default: 3,             expose: %i[env config]),
+      # A soft context budget in tokens: the context status bands (and the forget layer's offers) count against it
+      # instead of the window; unset or 0: off. models.<key>.llm_context_budget_tokens and
+      # hosts.<name>.llm_context_budget_tokens come first.
+      Entry.new(key: "llm_context.budget_tokens", yaml_path: %w[llm_context budget_tokens], type: :integer, default: nil,          expose: %i[env config]),
+      # The policy sentence forget_outputs' description carries (the forget layer); blank: none.
+      Entry.new(key: "llm_context.policy",       yaml_path: %w[llm_context policy],       type: :string, default: LLMContextStrategy::DEFAULT_POLICY, expose: %i[env config]),
 
       Entry.new(key: "thinking.turn_preamble",   yaml_path: %w[thinking turn_preamble],   type: :bool,   default: true,             expose: %i[env config cli]),
       # How much models think: off|low|medium|high|default, parsed by Thinking
@@ -254,8 +260,9 @@ module Samagotchi
     # (ConfigFile.hosts_config, ConfigFile.model_settings).
     MAP_ENTRY_KEYS = {
       "hosts" => %w[host port url transport api api_key_env profile first_token_timeout vision sampling thinking enabled
-                    remote window_tokens llm_context_strategy llm_context_apply].freeze,
-      "models" => %w[profile vision sampling thinking window_tokens llm_context_strategy llm_context_apply].freeze
+                    remote window_tokens llm_context_strategy llm_context_apply llm_context_budget_tokens].freeze,
+      "models" => %w[profile vision sampling thinking window_tokens llm_context_strategy llm_context_apply
+                     llm_context_budget_tokens].freeze
     }.freeze
     # Section keys beyond the registry's: guardrails' YAML rules (Engine#guardrail_rules).
     SECTION_EXTRA_KEYS = { "guardrails" => %w[rules disable].freeze }.freeze
@@ -843,6 +850,8 @@ module Samagotchi
                                                  "hosts entry '#{name}'")
           llm_context_apply = LLMContextStrategy.parse_apply(raw_cfg.key?(LLMContextStrategy::APPLY_KEY) ? raw_cfg[LLMContextStrategy::APPLY_KEY] : raw_cfg[:llm_context_apply],
                                                              "hosts entry '#{name}'")
+          llm_context_budget = LLMContextStrategy.parse_budget(raw_cfg.key?(LLMContextStrategy::BUDGET_KEY) ? raw_cfg[LLMContextStrategy::BUDGET_KEY] : raw_cfg[:llm_context_budget_tokens],
+                                                               "hosts entry '#{name}'")
           unless first_token_timeout.nil? || (first_token_timeout.is_a?(Numeric) && !first_token_timeout.negative?)
             warn_once "Warning: hosts entry '#{name}': first_token_timeout must be seconds (0 = off); using the default"
             first_token_timeout = nil
@@ -908,7 +917,7 @@ module Samagotchi
                                   profile: profile.empty? ? nil : profile, first_token_timeout: first_token_timeout,
                                   vision: vision, sampling: sampling, thinking: thinking, remote: remote,
                                   window_tokens: window, llm_context_strategy: llm_context,
-                                  llm_context_apply: llm_context_apply }
+                                  llm_context_apply: llm_context_apply, llm_context_budget_tokens: llm_context_budget }
         end
       end
 
@@ -1057,7 +1066,8 @@ module Samagotchi
                        "vision" => v[:vision], "sampling" => v[:sampling], "thinking" => v[:thinking]&.to_s,
                        "remote" => v[:remote], "window_tokens" => v[:window_tokens],
                        "llm_context_strategy" => v[:llm_context_strategy]&.map(&:to_s),
-                       "llm_context_apply" => v[:llm_context_apply]&.to_s).compact
+                       "llm_context_apply" => v[:llm_context_apply]&.to_s,
+                       "llm_context_budget_tokens" => v[:llm_context_budget_tokens]).compact
       end
       # Disabled hosts travel as just that, so a worker refuses "box:x"
       # the way its parent does instead of sending it to the default host.
@@ -1155,6 +1165,9 @@ module Samagotchi
         apply = LLMContextStrategy.parse_apply(v.key?(LLMContextStrategy::APPLY_KEY) ? v[LLMContextStrategy::APPLY_KEY] : v[:llm_context_apply],
                                                "models: #{key}")
         result[key][:llm_context_apply] = apply if apply
+        budget = LLMContextStrategy.parse_budget(v.key?(LLMContextStrategy::BUDGET_KEY) ? v[LLMContextStrategy::BUDGET_KEY] : v[:llm_context_budget_tokens],
+                                                 "models: #{key}")
+        result[key][:llm_context_budget_tokens] = budget if budget
       end
     rescue StandardError
       {}

data/lib/samagotchi/context_status.rb

@@ -19,6 +19,26 @@ module Samagotchi
   #
   # The context.* settings are read once, when the tracker is built (one per
   # run, so a changed setting counts from the next turn).
+  #
+  # The turn's LLM context strategy (LLMContextStrategy::Resolved) may set
+  # a soft budget (llm_context.budget_tokens): the buckets then count
+  # against it instead of the window (the smaller of the two).
+  #
+  # Under the forget layer the model's lines offer forget_outputs in
+  # tiers, never "forget now" (the spike: told to free context, models
+  # forget nearly everything), each with a "~N/M tokens" readout:
+  # - the first bucket with guidance, below the top two: the readout alone
+  #   (CLM: how-to at low pressure triggers wholesale deletion);
+  # - the one under the top: finish the unit of work in flight, then tidy
+  #   once;
+  # - the top, or over the budget: compact settled outputs now, keep what
+  #   will still be edited against, don't wipe.
+  # When: at a turn's first request (the turn before it answered, its
+  # outputs are settled), on a rise as ever, and again when the last line
+  # was the readout alone (a mid-turn rise) or the context is over the
+  # budget (every turn then). Mid-turn only the top tier offers; a lower
+  # rise gets the readout alone (the layout check: pushed mid-task, models
+  # forget at the base rate).
   class ContextStatus
     STATUS_PREFIX = "CONTEXT_STATUS"
     # The model's own line about its context (a tail system message, kind
@@ -62,19 +82,35 @@ module Samagotchi
     # The bucket of the last status line +conversation+ holds: the model's
     # own line, or a legacy session's injected telemetry.
     def self.last_bucket(conversation)
+      content = last_line(conversation)
+      match = content&.match(/\bbucket=([a-z0-9_]+)/)
+      match && match[1]
+    end
+
+    # The text of the last status line +conversation+ holds, nil for none.
+    def self.last_line(conversation)
       message = conversation.reverse.find do |entry|
         content = entry[:content].to_s
         entry[:role] == "system" && content.start_with?(STATUS_PREFIX, LINE_PREFIX)
       end
-      return nil unless message
-
-      match = message[:content].match(/\bbucket=([a-z0-9_]+)/)
-      match && match[1]
+      message && message[:content].to_s
     end
 
+    # What a forget-layer line names when it offers the tool.
+    OFFER_TOOL = "forget_outputs"
+    # The forget layer's tiers' words (#forget_line).
+    TIDY = "Finish the unit of work in flight, then tidy once with #{OFFER_TOOL}: settled outputs, with a note " \
+           "that carries what they established."
+    COMPACT = "Compact settled outputs now with #{OFFER_TOOL}: keep what you'll still edit against; don't wipe."
+
     # @param conversation [Array<Hash>] the turn's conversation so far (its
     #   last status line's bucket is where rises count from)
-    def initialize(conversation: [])
+    # @param llm_context [LLMContextStrategy::Resolved, nil] the turn's
+    #   strategy (its budget)
+    def initialize(conversation: [], llm_context: nil)
+      @budget = llm_context&.budget_tokens
+      @forget = llm_context&.forget? || false
+      @offered = self.class.last_line(conversation).to_s.include?(OFFER_TOOL)
       @enabled = self.class.enabled?
       chars_per_token = Config.get("context.chars_per_token").to_f
       @chars_per_token = chars_per_token.positive? ? chars_per_token : DEFAULT_CHARS_PER_TOKEN
@@ -121,9 +157,14 @@ module Samagotchi
       emit = emit?(bucket: bucket, iteration_index: iteration_index)
       previous_bucket = @last_bucket
       @last_bucket = bucket
+      line = if @forget
+               forget_line(usage, bucket, previous_bucket, iteration_index)
+             elsif guidance_due?(previous_bucket, bucket)
+               guidance_message(usage: usage, bucket: bucket)
+             end
+      @guidance = line if line
       return nil unless emit
 
-      @guidance = guidance_message(usage: usage, bucket: bucket) if guidance_due?(previous_bucket, bucket)
       { status: status_message(usage: usage, bucket: bucket), usage: usage, bucket: bucket, source: usage[:source] }
     end
 
@@ -171,7 +212,7 @@ module Samagotchi
       return nil unless @enabled
       return nil unless ContextWindow.positive_integer?(used_tokens) && ContextWindow.positive_integer?(window_tokens)
 
-      pct = (used_tokens.to_f / window_tokens) * 100.0
+      pct = (used_tokens.to_f / counted_against(window_tokens)) * 100.0
       { est_pct: pct, bucket: bucket_for(pct) }
     end
 
@@ -187,11 +228,11 @@ module Samagotchi
       window_source = :server if server_usage && server_usage[:context_window_tokens]
 
       if server_usage && server_usage[:prompt_tokens]
-        window_tokens = server_usage[:context_window_tokens] || window.tokens
+        window_tokens = counted_against(server_usage[:context_window_tokens] || window.tokens)
         used_tokens = [server_usage[:prompt_tokens] + appended_tokens(prompt_chars, image_tokens, counted), 0].max
         source = "server"
       else
-        window_tokens = window.tokens
+        window_tokens = counted_against(window.tokens)
         used_tokens = (prompt_chars / @chars_per_token).ceil + image_tokens
         source = "estimate"
       end
@@ -208,6 +249,12 @@ module Samagotchi
 
     private
 
+    # What the buckets count against: the window, or the budget when one is
+    # set and smaller.
+    def counted_against(window_tokens)
+      @budget ? [@budget, window_tokens].min : window_tokens
+    end
+
     # The estimate for what the prompt added since the +counted+ one;
     # after an edit (#edited!) what it lost too, as a negative.
     def appended_tokens(prompt_chars, image_tokens, counted)
@@ -248,6 +295,42 @@ module Samagotchi
       bucket_changed || cadence_due
     end
 
+    # The forget layer's line for this request, or nil (the tiers and when
+    # they come: the class comment).
+    def forget_line(usage, bucket, previous, iteration_index)
+      over = over_budget?(usage)
+      tier = over ? :compact : tier_for(bucket)
+      return nil unless tier
+
+      rise = guidance_due?(previous, bucket)
+      if iteration_index.zero?
+        return nil unless rise || over || (tier != :info && !@offered)
+      else
+        return nil unless rise
+
+        tier = :info unless tier == :compact
+      end
+      @offered = tier != :info
+      readout = "~#{k(usage[:estimated_used_tokens])}/#{k(usage[:window_tokens])} tokens in use"
+      readout += ", over the budget" if over
+      words = { info: nil, tidy: TIDY, compact: COMPACT }.fetch(tier)
+      { role: "system", kind: LINE_KIND, content: "#{LINE_PREFIX}#{readout} (bucket=#{bucket}).#{" #{words}" if words}]" }
+    end
+
+    # :info, :tidy or :compact for a bucket with guidance (the top one
+    # compacts, the one under it tidies, lower ones inform); nil below.
+    def tier_for(bucket)
+      rank = bucket_rank(bucket)
+      return nil if rank < GUIDANCE_FROM_RANK
+      return :compact if rank == @thresholds.size
+
+      rank == @thresholds.size - 1 ? :tidy : :info
+    end
+
+    def over_budget?(usage) = !@budget.nil? && usage[:estimated_used_tokens] >= @budget
+
+    def k(tokens) = tokens >= 1000 ? "#{(tokens / 1000.0).round}k" : tokens.to_s
+
     def guidance_message(usage:, bucket:)
       how = usage[:source].to_s == "server" ? "as the server reports" : "estimated"
       { role: "system", kind: LINE_KIND,

data/lib/samagotchi/engine.rb

@@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ module Samagotchi
       # The tools this session offers (the prompts' declarations and the
       # kernel's dispatch): the built-ins, per Engine. execute.description
       # off: execute offers no description parameter.
-      @tools = Tools::Builtins.registry(command_description: Config.get("execute.description") != false)
+      @tools = Tools::Builtins.registry(command_description: Config.get("execute.description") != false,
+                                        policy: Config.get(LLMContextStrategy::POLICY_SETTING))
       if @scratch
         # A scratch session's children would outlive it, and so would a
         # note it left in a peer; its memories would too (write and edit
@@ -930,11 +931,13 @@ module Samagotchi
 
     # The status line's ctx from the saved context, for a worker that has run
     # no turn yet (it woke after an idle exit): nil when either count is
-    # unknown or context.status is off.
+    # unknown or context.status is off. Counted as the turns count it:
+    # against the effective model's llm_context budget when it has one.
     def saved_context_status(context)
       return nil unless context
 
-      ContextStatus.new.display_for(used_tokens: context[:used_tokens], window_tokens: context[:window_tokens])
+      ContextStatus.new(llm_context: turn_llm_context)
+                   .display_for(used_tokens: context[:used_tokens], window_tokens: context[:window_tokens])
     end
 
     # The effective model is on a chat host (api: openai), whose loop uses
@@ -1410,9 +1413,19 @@ module Samagotchi
       target ||= @host_registry.resolve(@effective_model_name)
       chat = target.entry.chat?
       level = chat ? nil : thinking_level(target)
-      @prompt_builder.build(chat: chat, thinking: level)
+      @prompt_builder.build(chat: chat, thinking: level, layers: llm_context_layers(target))
     end
 
+    # The LLM context layers +target+'s turns run under: the native prompt
+    # declares the tools they add (forget_outputs under forget), so a
+    # model switch may change the tool list. [] under none.
+    def llm_context_layers(target)
+      LLMContextStrategy.resolve(target, names: model_lookup_names(target)).active_layers
+    rescue StandardError
+      []
+    end
+    private :llm_context_layers
+
     # The base prompt (specs, plugins' declarations).
     def assist_system_prompt(chat: false, thinking: nil)
       @prompt_builder.base(chat: chat, thinking: thinking)

data/lib/samagotchi/guardrails/targets.rb

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ module Samagotchi
       PATH_TOOLS = %w[write edit read memory_write].freeze
 
       # chi's own tools, by name, whether this session has them or not.
-      CORE_TOOLS = ToolDeclarations::TOOL_SCHEMAS.map { |schema| schema[:name] }.freeze
+      CORE_TOOLS = ToolDeclarations::BUILTIN_SCHEMAS.map { |schema| schema[:name] }.freeze
 
       attr_reader :tool, :command, :paths, :cwd, :repo_root