Canonical identity
Durable entities represent people, organizations, products, projects, services, and other promoted subjects. Alias and merge decisions avoid treating a shared name as sufficient identity proof.
Memory quality
Memory quality is visible in the qualifications.
Canonical identity, provenance, observation time, uncertainty and conflict keep durable context useful without presenting it as certainty.
Implemented model
Quality lives in structure, not confident prose.
The canonical ledger holds distinctions that a flat document or vector result cannot reliably express on its own.
Inspectable provenance
Published memory retains bounded source references and lineage back to the contribution that supports it. Detailed private evidence remains outside routine retrieval.
Observation time
Claims can carry when something was observed and whether it is current, historical, or superseded. Freshness is not inferred from retrieval rank alone.
Conflict preservation
Contradictory evidence can remain represented as conflict or uncertainty. The system is designed not to flatten disagreement into one confident profile.
Correction and replacement
Operators can correct identity and memory state, and successful source reprocessing atomically replaces the previous contribution from that source.
Scoped cards
Memory cards are derived for a named platform, subject, agent, and scope. A card is a bounded projection, not a universal or psychologically complete profile.
Diagram descriptionStatic end-state example: candidate mentions pass grounded-identifier, compatible-context and independent-support checks. Supported mentions resolve; ambiguous and incompatible mentions remain separate.
Temporal and conflict states
Do not overwrite the difference between old, inferred, and disputed.
A useful answer may need current context, but the memory system must retain enough state to explain what changed and where certainty stops.
Current
The best supported context intended for present use, subject to its evidence and observation time.
Historical
Previously true or relevant context retained for chronology rather than presented as current.
Superseded
A claim or source generation displaced by a newer active contribution without erasing its lineage.
Inferred
A bounded interpretation derived from evidence, kept distinct from an explicit fact or direction.
Conflicting
Material sources disagree and the system preserves the disagreement instead of selecting certainty silently.
Uncertain
Evidence or identity resolution is not strong enough for an unqualified memory statement.
These states support qualification; they do not guarantee that the system has observed every relevant change or selected the correct state automatically. Source coverage and operator correction still matter.
Provenance and publication
Every durable statement should have a route back to evidence.
Private source contributions preserve source identity, generation, and derivation details. Published pages and scoped memory cards retain bounded citations and quality cues suitable for inspection without exposing the whole private ledger in routine retrieval.
Provenance shows what supported a memory; it does not prove that the source was truthful, complete, current, correctly interpreted, or authorized for a different task. Citation is an inspection aid, not a correctness seal.
Source generation
Each processing run can be tracked as staging, active, superseded, or failed, so publication can point to the generation that contributed the memory.
Published citation
Retrieval surfaces can expose bounded source references, observation time, and qualification without publishing raw private evidence by default.
Operator decision
Ambiguous identity, merge proposals, conflicts, and corrections can require an inspectable human decision rather than automatic resolution.
Current limitations
A quality system can still be wrong.
The product is designed to make error states visible and reversible. It does not eliminate hallucinations, infer hidden mental states, or create complete knowledge from sparse signals.
Identity can remain ambiguous
Names, email fragments, and contextual mentions may be insufficient to merge records safely. The correct outcome can be separate or unresolved identities.
Conflict may remain unresolved
Preserving disagreement is sometimes more accurate than selecting one source. A downstream agent must respect that qualification.
Correction journey is still beta work
The ledger and operator controls support correction and provenance inspection; the complete self-service customer correction experience is not yet a general product claim.
Evaluate the memory
Inspect what the agent was allowed to believe.
Strong beta partners review identity, sources, freshness, conflicts, and the retrieved context—not only whether the final answer sounds plausible.