working-memory

Start with what matters. Working Memory is a daily briefing of your active focus areas, priorities, and recent knowledge changes, kept up to date across every AI tool you use.

Command

nmem --json wm read

If the runtime already knows the current project or agent lane, add --space "<space name>".

What you'll find

• Focus areas: what you're actively working on, ranked by recent activity
• Priorities: items flagged as important or needing attention
• Unresolved flags: contradictions, stale information, or items to verify
• Recent changes: what shifted in your knowledge base since the last briefing

How to use it

• Summarize key focus areas and any unresolved flags briefly (2-3 sentences), then work informed by this context.
• If the task is clearly a continuation, review, release, regression, integration, or prior-decision question, move directly into search-memory after the briefing instead of stopping here.
• If exists: false or the command fails, say there is no briefing yet and continue normally.
• Share only the parts relevant to what the user is doing now.

When to read

• Beginning of a new session
• Returning to a project after a break
• User asks "what am I working on?" or "what's my context?"

When to skip

• Already loaded this session (do not re-read unless the user asks)
• User explicitly wants a fresh start
• Task is isolated and needs no prior context

Links

• Working Memory
• Getting started