Sessions, resets, and reviewable history: next steps

You can now ask for a precise continuity operation instead of an unspecified reset. You can also explain why a cleared live transcript can coexist with retained history and an export containing earlier material.

That still leaves another question: what knowledge can return without reopening that journal? A separate memory backend, a managed skill, or applicable project guidance is not erased merely because conversation messages were cleared.

Continue to Memory and reusable knowledge. Keep the ledger beside the next part’s four-place model: one describes session and output boundaries; the other describes where useful knowledge can live. Their relationship is developed in An empty context is not an empty history or memory store.