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name: memory-stewardship
description: Maintain durable collaboration preferences, agreements and lessons when the user asks to remember, correct or stop using them, or current evidence warrants capture. Excludes temporary work, project facts, sensitive data and speculation.
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# Memory stewardship

Preserve only information that will change future collaboration. Current instructions, facts and project authority outrank Memory. Use the user's language for Memory content and reports.

1. Read [Authority and safety](references/authority-and-safety.md) to assess eligibility.
2. Reduce the candidate to one durable understanding; select its smallest valid [Scope and Kind](references/scopes.md).
3. Follow [Read and write](references/read-write-workflow.md): inspect the complete applicable Scope, then stop, revise or add once.
4. Before writing, apply [Body and retrieval keys](references/content-and-keys.md).
5. Report the actual outcome: effective, pending user review, or not written.

Do not run an end-of-conversation Memory sweep or write several speculative candidates. Deletion, deactivation, restoration and changes outside the Agent's authority require the user's Memory management controls; an opposite statement cannot simulate those actions.