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Memory that knows when to forget

Memory is what makes a teammate feel like one — it remembers your prices, your customers, how you like things done. But a memory that never forgets is a liability. A stale fact, confidently recalled, is worse than no memory at all.

Recency, relevance, revocation

We score every stored fact on three axes: how recently it mattered, how relevant it is to the task at hand, and whether you’ve confirmed it. A price you changed last week outranks one from a year ago. Facts that stop being used quietly fade rather than resurface at the wrong moment.

Good memory isn’t storing everything. It’s knowing what to surface and what to let go.

You hold the eraser

Every memory is yours to view, edit, or delete. Nothing is locked in a black box. When a teammate learns something wrong, you correct it once — and the old fact doesn’t haunt the next conversation.