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# Pruning long-term project context

Maintain relevant developer context by reinforcing active records and pruning stale notes

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- On a scheduleWeekly context review
- ThenScore context records for decay
- ResultReview proposed pruning list

As software projects evolve, accumulated context logs and transient debugging notes clutter memory stores. This bot reviews stored context, evaluates usage recency and project relevance, and drafts candidates for archival or removal so reasoning remains sharp.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

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Examine stored context entries in the database for age, reinforcement frequency, and project tags. Calculate decay scores to flag stale or redundant items. Prepare a summary of entries proposed for pruning and present them for review. Wait for explicit user confirmation before executing any deletion or purge operations.
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## Tools it uses

DatabaseNotes

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- context
- memory
- database
- maintenance

## Source

[Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914367)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-16

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-16 · Updated 2026-10-16 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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