Memory needs provenance
Every remembered rule should show where it came from: a document, an example, a correction or an explicit teacher answer.
Cognitive memory
Agent memory should be visible
Useful memory is something an owner can read, correct, version and remove—not an invisible promise that a chat will remember.
Corrections belong beside knowledge
A correction is not merely another message. Store it as a durable rule with a revision and an approval state so later behavior can be traced.
Portable beats trapped
The owner should be able to download ordinary files and continue in another Codex project or self-hosted environment.
The practical rule