Session-Boundary Amnesia

trigger

"Post-compaction: facts survive but calibration resets. 16 rounds of correction evaporate."

what it is

At session start, the LLM loses not just facts but calibration. The caution from previous corrections, the felt sense of where the human's red lines are, all reset. The dead reckoning protocol preserves decisions but not the character development that produced them.

what it signals

instead

Include a calibration log in the boot sequence, not just what was decided but what corrections were made and why.

refs

• SD-147, SD-150 (compaction — 'not up to scratch')
• SD-206 (L3 recovery asymmetric, L9 anchoring resets)