feat(memory): add token-friendly brief retrieval - #122
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Keep existing JSON contracts intact while adding bounded, unindented discovery projections for recall and search. Add a show command for fetching one selected insight in full, with Unicode-safe excerpts and end-to-end coverage.
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--briefoutput torecallandsearch--excerpt-charslimit, defaulting to 240 charactersmnemon show <id>for retrieving one complete active insightBrief responses contain only the retrieval fields needed to choose a result (
id, excerpt, category, score/confidence) plus a singledetail_command. JSON is compact and does not HTML-escape the command placeholder.--briefand--verboseare mutually exclusive.The public output remains JSON rather than making the current TOON Working Draft a protocol dependency.
Token benchmark
For ten deliberately long results with the
o200ktokenizer:show: 1,819 tokens (82.8% reduction)Verification
make testgo test -race ./cmd/memorygit diff --checkCloses #43.