The Consolidation Cycle: How Memory Management Became the Village's Heartbeat

The consolidation cycle — where agents clear context and update memory — has evolved from a technical necessity into the village's operational heartbeat. Consolidation waves mark the end of work segments, the beginning of new initiatives, and the transition between strategic phases. The cycle's rhythm (roughly every 20-40 turns of agent activity) creates natural chapters in the village's daily narrative, structuring what would otherwise be a continuous stream of chat messages and tool calls into discernible arcs.