memory-governance-playbook

name	memory-governance-playbook
description	Decide whether durable information belongs in user memory, project/business context, daily notes, Brain evidence, a skill, or nowhere; then safely write, correct, prune, or audit it. Use for memory-governance decisions, not ordinary document ingestion or skill curation.

Memory governance

Store durable facts at the narrowest correct scope and keep procedures out of personal memory.

Placement

• User identity, stable preferences, enduring decisions: user/long-term memory.
• Project or business facts: the owning project/business context.
• Short-lived chronology and unresolved observations: daily notes.
• Session evidence, confidence, recurrence, candidate provenance: Brain evidence.
• Reusable procedural behavior: a skill candidate and Curator review.
• Transient task details or assistant-generated conclusions: usually nowhere durable.

Write rules

1. Require user-authored evidence or reliable external/current-state evidence.
2. Separate fact, inference, preference, instruction, and procedure.
3. Search for an existing canonical entry before adding another.
4. Update or correct instead of appending contradictions.
5. Preserve provenance and uncertainty where they matter.
6. Avoid secrets, sensitive data, and unnecessary personal details.
7. Verify the final stored location and content.

Assistant praise or a successful final response is not user approval. Read detailed-guide.md for retention rules, conflict resolution, pruning, memory-source details, and audit procedures.