Let the assistant propose what to remember, and the operator decide what is kept

Plugin/unraid/Tools/ai_chat_worker.php

@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ if (PHP_SAPI !== 'cli') {
 }
 
 require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/include/ai.php';
+require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/include/ai_memory_learn.php';
 
 // ── explain mode ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 // Answers "what would this question be given, and why" without asking the model anything. Every
@@ -761,6 +762,22 @@ if (trim($mem['assisted']) !== '') {
              . trim($mem['assisted']) . "\n\n";
 }
 
+// Asking for the candidate inside the same call rather than making a second one. A follow-up
+// "was anything here worth remembering" would cost another 25-75s on every question to answer
+// "no" most of the time. The marker is stripped from the answer before it is shown, so the
+// mechanism never appears in the transcript.
+if (vv_ai_mem_learn_enabled()) {
+    $system .= "REMEMBERING SOMETHING\n"
+             . "If this exchange established a durable, non-obvious fact about THIS installation — "
+             . "a hardware quirk, a deliberate setting, something the operator corrected you on — "
+             . "then after your answer, on its own final line, write:\n"
+             . "MEMORY: <one short sentence>\n"
+             . "Rules: one line, under 200 characters, stated as fact with no hedging. Not a "
+             . "summary of your answer, not a restatement of the question, not anything already "
+             . "written above in what you know. Most exchanges warrant nothing — when in doubt, "
+             . "leave the line out entirely.\n\n";
+}
+
 if (trim($mem['learned']) !== '') {
     $system .= "NOTES YOU WROTE EARLIER, KEPT BY THE OPERATOR\n"
              . "These were proposed by you on previous turns and approved for keeping. They are "
@@ -932,6 +949,27 @@ fclose($fh);
 $answer   = trim($answer);
 $thinking = trim($thinking);
 
+// Pull the candidate out before anything else looks at the answer — the code scan, the transcript
+// and the token ledger all see the text without it. Matched only at the very end, so a MEMORY:
+// mentioned mid-answer while explaining this feature is not mistaken for one being filed.
+if (vv_ai_mem_learn_enabled() && $answer !== '') {
+    if (preg_match('/\n[ \t]*MEMORY:[ \t]*(.+?)[ \t]*$/s', "\n" . $answer, $mm)) {
+        $candidate = trim(preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $mm[1]));
+        $answer    = trim(preg_replace('/\n[ \t]*MEMORY:[ \t]*.+?[ \t]*$/s', '', "\n" . $answer));
+
+        if ($candidate !== '') {
+            $r = vv_ai_mem_propose($candidate, [
+                'profile' => $profile,
+                'asked'   => $question,
+            ]);
+            wlog(sprintf('memory candidate %s: %s',
+                $r['ok'] ? ($r['state'] === 'accepted' ? 'auto-accepted' : 'filed')
+                         : ('rejected (' . ($r['error'] ?? '?') . ')'),
+                mb_substr($candidate, 0, 80)));
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 if ($answer === '') {
     jw($jobFile, ['status' => 'error',
         'error' => 'The model returned no answer' . ($thinking !== '' ? ' (only reasoning)' : ''),