memanto policy apply-preset

Adopt one of the shipped presets as the agent’s expiry policy. The preset is printed in full first, then you are asked to confirm — so the answer is an informed one rather than a blind yes.

memanto policy apply-preset NAME [OPTIONS]

Arguments:

NAME - Preset name: conservative, balanced, or aggressive (required)

Options:

-a, --agent TEXT - Agent identifier (defaults to active agent)
-y, --yes - Skip the confirmation prompt

Examples:

memanto policy apply-preset balanced
memanto policy apply-preset aggressive --agent my-agent
memanto policy apply-preset conservative --yes

Output:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Preset: balanced                                            │
│ Sensible defaults for a working agent: transient state ages │
│ out in weeks, semantic knowledge in months, durable truths  │
│ never.                                                      │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

       Retention by type                          Rules
   … full table and rules printed here …

Purge: disabled — expired memories are kept forever.
Agent: my-agent

This replaces the entire policy for 'my-agent'.
Adopt preset 'balanced'? [y/N]: y

Adopted preset 'balanced' for 'my-agent'.
Preview what this would expire: memanto policy apply --dry-run

Adopting a preset replaces the entire policy, including any rules you wrote yourself. Declining the prompt writes nothing.

Notes:

Adopting a preset expires nothing on its own — run memanto policy apply afterwards, or let the nightly schedule job pick it up.
The resulting policy is written to ~/.memanto/policies/<agent-id>.yaml and can be edited by hand.
Preview a preset without adopting it via Get Policy Preset.
Backed by the Apply Policy Preset API endpoint.

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