Provenance and time
Every durable memory needs a source URI, capture time, and content hash. The service accepts HTTP(S), file, and transcript URI sources. A local absolute path is normalized to a file URI by the service; an autonomous MemoryRemember call with no source is attributed to the current session transcript. Use the original source that supports the claim, not a plausible-looking replacement. The service fills captured_at with its current timestamp when the caller omits it.
For a source-backed synthesis, metadata can preserve author, record_type, verification evidence, source date, historical flag, import time, local URI, source commit, and temporal role. The autonomous tool adds a recorded_in transcript pointer. A strong entry separates the claim from its evidence and uncertainty, then says why it matters or how to apply it. For mutable facts, retain an observation date and re-check before acting. A source URI proves where a statement came from; it does not by itself prove the statement is true today.
The graph worker prepends source and kind to indexed passages. When a record is historical, it also adds the imported author's identity and source date, plus the configured historical warning. HippoRAG results carry provenance fields back to recall. CPU-vector results also include source, kind, capture time, hash and metadata. Always retain citations when summarizing results.
The versioned memory core adds another layer: a manifest binds source snapshots and segment files by SHA-256; each segment cites source IDs and declares temporal_role and historical. A core synthesis supplements preserved source memories; it does not replace them. Do not rewrite raw sources to make the current view simpler.
For imports and historical author boundaries, continue to history boundaries. For current operational claims, follow the service status source and retain its observation timestamp.
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