Retiring stale truth

Without Klio

Append-only memory rots: the store fills with contradictions and agents act on whichever surfaces first. Mutable memory is worse — the wrong belief simply replaces the right one, invisibly.

With Klio in the loop

1. 1

   A new fact arrives that overlaps an older one.

2. 2

   The curator asks one narrow question: do these directly contradict, such that both cannot be true now?

3. 3

   If yes, the old row is marked superseded by the new one. Recall stops returning it; the record keeps it.

The call an agent makes

decide(
  {
    "content": "No production deploys on Fridays.",
    "rationale": "Two of the last three Friday deploys paged the weekend."
  }
)

Real tool, illustrative payload. The full contract for every tool is in the docs.

What changes

Agents act on current belief by default, and the retired belief is still there to consult. Anyone can keep text; retiring it is the hard part.