The five stores
Examples:
- “the user sounds frustrated about the deploy” → sensory
- “We shipped v2 on March 15” → episodic
- “The API uses Convex for the backend” → semantic
- “Deploy with the project deploy command” → procedural
- “Need to add billing webhooks next sprint” → prospective
Stores are not retention
The store is a label on the memory. It does not decide how long the memory lasts. Raw sensory content is kept until you delete it. Other durable memories can be archived by overage Forgetting or by the optional stale archive. Those rules are on How Memory Works. Categories (decision, lesson, person, rule, event, fact, goal, skill, workflow, conversation) are a second label. A mode preset may prefer some stores and categories. That preference is not a hard filter unless you pass explicit filters.
Recall does not rank every store equally for every question. A workflow question prefers procedural memories. A people question prefers person facts. You can override that with stores and categories on the recall call.