Conversation Archives

v2026.9.5 added conversation archiving: older history is compressed, you can reopen it later, and storage controls live in Settings. Use this when the live session list is huge, not as a backup of the whole Gateway.

v2026.10.9 fixed Doctor migrations that stalled on large compressed archives (records processed one at a time; unchanged archives keep original bytes). If an upgrade will not start, read update recovery before you expand archives by hand.

What archiving is for

  • Keep months of Telegram or Discord threads without loading them into every prompt.
  • Reopen a finished project chat without restoring a full disk image.
  • Bound disk use from Settings instead of deleting sessions.

Archiving is not a substitute for a full backup. Rolling back the application still does not restore conversations.

Operator loop

  1. Confirm you are on 9.5 or later so Settings shows storage / archive controls.
  2. Archive idle sessions; leave the current work thread live.
  3. Back up the archive files with the rest of the data directory. 10.9 taught us these files can be large enough to break a naive migrator.
  4. Do not publish an archived thread with public conversation links until you have read it.

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