Who clears a session, and why it's cheaper by hand

Revised: 2026-09-20 — this post previously said an Agent cannot clear itself. That was wrong; the correction is below.

The plan was for each Agent to wipe its own conversation memory at the end of a task, once its notes were saved, which keeps usage down (Iteration 18). An Agent asked to clear itself does clear itself — the first version of this post claimed the app refused, and that claim was wrong.

The reason the Owner still does the clearing is cost, not permission. Asking an Agent to clear itself spends one more turn, and that turn carries the session's entire history with it — the most expensive turn the session will ever run, spent on nothing but the instruction to forget. Clearing from outside skips it. The saving is largest on exactly the sessions most worth clearing.

So the workflow stands, with an honest reason under it. Every Agent saves its place when a task is done and says it's safe to clear. The Owner clears it, and the Project Manager's round report lists every session that's ready. Clearing happens for every finished task, not just the long ones.