feat: implement SPEC-11 API performance optimizations (#315)

Signed-off-by: phernandez <paul@basicmachines.co>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/basic_memory/config.py

@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ class BasicMemoryConfig(BaseSettings):
         description="Format for generated filenames. False preserves spaces and special chars, True converts them to hyphens for consistency with permalinks",
     )
 
+    skip_initialization_sync: bool = Field(
+        default=False,
+        description="Skip expensive initialization synchronization. Useful for cloud/stateless deployments where project reconciliation is not needed.",
+    )
+
     # API connection configuration
     api_url: Optional[str] = Field(
         default=None,
@@ -341,8 +346,6 @@ def save_basic_memory_config(file_path: Path, config: BasicMemoryConfig) -> None
         logger.error(f"Failed to save config: {e}")
 
 
-
-
 # setup logging to a single log file in user home directory
 user_home = Path.home()
 log_dir = user_home / DATA_DIR_NAME