Story Memory

Schema

{
  "aiInstructions": {
    "summarization": {
      "custom": "string"
    }
  }
}

Example

{
  "aiInstructions": {
    "summarization": {
      "custom": "Track the player's growth, learning, cultivation of new skills and power, and how this changes their identity and relationships with the world and society."
    }
  }
}

Fields

custom

The only key — free-form guidance for what world-specific details the summaries must preserve for long-term continuity. Like every other aiInstructions task, it is layered on top of the engine’s base summarization instructions.

Authoring pattern

The engine summarizes recent and past story context on its own; custom tells it what not to lose. The guiding question: describe what would be jarring if an NPC forgot it or mixed up the details — “in my world, this is important, do not lose it.”

What matters depends on the genre:

• Relationship-driven worlds — who is related to whom, who is involved with whom, and which of those ties are secret.
• Military or war worlds — ranks, when and why characters were promoted, the chain of command, who was wounded in which battle.
• Progression or leveling worlds — when and why a character levels, learns a new skill, or undergoes an evolution.
• Worlds where alignment matters — an act that shifts a character’s alignment is a critical beat, not just another dice roll, and must not drop out of the summary.

Keep it focused on what must be preserved; name the load-bearing facts rather than restating the whole world.