diff --git a/examples/mnist/mnist.toml b/examples/mnist/mnist.toml
index 30bf0c8..414de35 100644
--- a/examples/mnist/mnist.toml
+++ b/examples/mnist/mnist.toml
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ verbosity = "INFO"  # DEBUG, INFO, INFO:0-9, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL
 name = "dummy"  
 pretrained_path = "examples/mnist/mnist.pth"
 
+# enables checkpointing
+max_ckpts = 0 # Increment to enable
+ckpts_path = "output/mnist/"
+
 [data]
 name = "mnist"
 path = ""  # folder or file later for custom dataset
diff --git a/src/config/configuration.py b/src/config/configuration.py
index f2d707d..3bc3ece 100644
--- a/src/config/configuration.py
+++ b/src/config/configuration.py
@@ -87,7 +87,10 @@ def _select_best_gpu() -> int | None:
 class ModelCfg:
     name: str
     pretrained_path: str
-    # ckpt: str | None = None # perhaps later support checkpointing files
+
+    # FIFO checkpointing: 0 disables, N keeps last N post-CL snapshots
+    max_ckpts: int = 0
+    ckpts_path: str = ""
 
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
diff --git a/src/driver/continuous_monitor.py b/src/driver/continuous_monitor.py
index 299578c..da6c32f 100644
--- a/src/driver/continuous_monitor.py
+++ b/src/driver/continuous_monitor.py
@@ -285,6 +285,10 @@ def _handle_drift(self, drift_signal: DriftSignal) -> None:
             drift_event_id=self.drift_event_count,
         )
 
+        if self.modelHarness.ckpts_enabled:
+            ckptpath = self.modelHarness.save_ckpt(event=self.drift_event_count)
+            self.logger.info(f"* Checkpoint saved to: {ckptpath}", level=0)
+
         self.logger.info("<- Continual learning complete.", level=0)
 
         # Optionally reset detector after learning
diff --git a/src/model/torch_model_harness.py b/src/model/torch_model_harness.py
index ff3a50a..fee7a53 100644
--- a/src/model/torch_model_harness.py
+++ b/src/model/torch_model_harness.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Optional, Callable, Tuple, List, Dict
 
 import torch
@@ -173,3 +174,23 @@ def history_eval(self) -> Optional[List[float]]:
             raise RuntimeError("Empty loader: nothing to evaluate.")
 
         return [s / c for s, c in zip(sums, counts)]
+
+    @property
+    def ckpts_enabled(self) -> bool:
+        return self.cfg.model.max_ckpts > 0 and bool(self.cfg.model.ckpts_path)
+
+    def save_ckpt(self, event: int) -> str:
+        """Persist model state, evict oldest when over budget."""
+        d = Path(self.cfg.model.ckpts_path)
+        d.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+        fname = f"drift_adaptation_{event}.pt"
+        torch.save(self.model.state_dict(), d / fname)
+        (d / "latest").write_text(fname)
+
+        # Guillotine the oldest survivors
+        alive = sorted(d.glob("drift_adaptation_*.pt"), key=lambda p: p.stat().st_mtime)
+        while len(alive) > self.cfg.model.max_ckpts:
+            alive.pop(0).unlink()
+
+        return str(d / fname)