Memory Budget Policy

Required Read

• Before producing, invoking or reading the shared analyzer, or running a memory diet, read skills/host-contracts/references/memory-budget-policy.md in full.
• Resolve it within this installed plugin.
• Its full text and named sections bind as rule content.
• Missing or unreadable content stops the affected action until the plugin is repaired.
• Read explicitly when triggered.
• Never @-import the reference.

Ownership and Authorization

• The main agent edits its own MEMORY.md for a memory diet, only on an explicit main-group request.
• Moved incident text is kept verbatim in a reference file and linked from MEMORY.md.
• Exempt active-rule sections are never moved or edited by a diet.
• Metadata and lookup grant no memory-write authority.

Provider and Rollout

• Only the host/image owns the canonical policy and parser.
• Consumers use the fixed immutable image target.
• Missing or unsupported artifacts mean unknown budget.
• Never substitute a separate exemption list or parser.
• Keep active-rule sections live and report their growth without turning exemptions into alarms or extraction targets.