tutorial-guide-memory-and-molt

Molt is a voluntary context reset triggered when an agent's conversation fills 70-95% of its context window. The agent writes a charge briefing to its next self, then sheds the conversation while pad, identity, codex, and skills persist.

Run this lesson to walk through the five layers: conversation (destroyed), pad and lingtai identity (reloaded), and codex plus skill library (permanent). Each concept is demonstrated live against the real kernel rather than recited.

Four durable stores survive: the pad working notes, the lingtai identity, the codex of verified facts, and the skill library. Only the conversation history is destroyed, and the charge becomes the first thing the new self reads.

The system forces a molt without a charge, so the new self wakes disoriented with only a pointer to the activity log. The lesson recommends performing a voluntary molt with a written charge to avoid this.

Soul (subconscious flow, opt-in), System (runtime inspection and lifecycle), Psyche (identity, pad, context, name), and Email (filesystem-based messaging). Intrinsics are always loaded, unlike capabilities configured in init.json.