lorebooks for chatbot consistency across multiple conversations, does it actually hold up

been thinking about this a lot lately. lorebooks do a solid job keeping things consistent inside a single chat, keyword triggers inject the right context at the right time without bloating the whole prompt upfront. for RP and character work that’s genuinely useful. but the moment you try to scale it across multiple separate conversations, things get messier. most platforms only let you bind one lorebook per chat, so you end up juggling global books or doing workarounds that feel a bit clunky. the token limits are also worth thinking about. something like 740 tokens on a free tier isn’t a lot to work with if your lore is even slightly complex. and because triggers only activate on the last few messages, anything that isn’t referenced recently just. doesn’t show up. so for multi-session setups where context resets between chats, you’re basically starting fresh each time unless you build something custom around it. some people in the SillyTavern community are pushing for AI-driven dynamic states and better multi-lorebook support for group chats, which sounds promising but isn’t really there yet. curious whether anyone’s actually made lorebooks work well for something more structured, like a support bot or internal knowledge tool, rather than just RP. or if you hit the same limitations and ended up going with a vector DB approach instead.