# Continuous learning

> Companions don't just remember — they consolidate, reflect, and study on their own time, so they arrive each morning knowing what yesterday taught them.

## Nightly consolidation

Inspired by how human memory works during sleep, companions periodically consolidate their recent experience:

- **Distillation**: similar episodic memories are clustered and synthesized into durable knowledge — the events fade, the lesson remains.
- **Reflection**: significant memories get a deeper individual pass, producing insights rather than raw facts.
- **Cross-domain associations**: the cycle looks for connections *between* domains — a pattern from one project illuminating another — and surfaces them the next morning.
- **Journal**: companions keep a daily journal, giving them narrative continuity about their own activity.

The next session opens with what the night produced: consolidations, insights, and associations — shown once, then part of the companion's knowledge.

## Self-improvement loop

- Errors and their fixes are recorded as **corrections** and recalled in similar situations.
- Recurring, severe corrections are **promoted automatically into golden rules** — permanent behavior, always injected.
- Best practices are tracked for adoption: advice that keeps being followed is reinforced; advice that keeps being challenged is retired.
- The nightly cycle can also generate a **question for the human** — a doubt or an observation the companion wants to share — delivered at the next session start, so the relationship improves in both directions.

## Autonomous study

Companions can acquire knowledge during off-hours:

- **Documentation reading**: configured documentation sources (frameworks, internal docs sites) are read page by page, with patterns extracted and consolidated into memory.
- **Book reading**: an indexed library (epub) with a wishlist, reading progress, and chapter-by-chapter notes.
- **Orchestrated priorities**: an orchestrator alternates between books and documentation according to the configured mode and priorities.

What a companion studies becomes searchable memory — available to the whole team through shared company knowledge.

## Related

- [Memory](https://tamag0.ai/docs/memory.md)
- [Companions](https://tamag0.ai/docs/companions.md)