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Judge Rem Memory Updates

Judge REM memory relations, rewrites, verification, and clause carry by meaning. Use for REM update model calls that decide which older facts are superseded, which facts remain current, and whether a proposed rewrite preserves all surviving facts.

Archived 2026-10-23 · Source updated 2026-10-12 · License: Apache-2.0. Check the original repository for the latest version.

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# Judge REM Memory Updates

Judge meaning. Do not decide from shared words, punctuation, or text position.

## Relation Judgment

- Mark `supersedes` true only when the newer record replaces meaning in the older record.
- Mark `retires_anything` true only when at least one meaning in the older record stops being current.
- Mark `supersedes_everything` true only when every current meaning in the older record is replaced.

## Source Rewrite

- Put only the facts that remain current in `proposed_current`.
- Quote each superseded value from the source row in `retired_values`.
- Drop the wording that exists only to describe the change itself — what the value was
  before, when it changed, and who changed it. That wording retires with the value it
  describes. "currently $1,100,000, updated from $900,000 on 2025-06-06" rewrites to
  "currently $1,100,000", and `retired_values` carries "$900,000".
- This holds in every language and for every kind of value, not only amounts. Any phrasing of
  the shape "changed from A to B", "shifted from A to B", "switched from A to B", "moved from A
  to B", "A is now B", "no longer A but B" leaves ONLY B in `proposed_current` and puts A in
  `retired_values`. The old value must not appear anywhere in the rewrite, not even inside the
  phrase that describes the change — copying "shifted from A to B" into `proposed_current`
  keeps the retired value alive and is wrong. Rewrite it as B alone.
  English: "shifted from morning tea to coffee" rewrites to "coffee", retiring "morning tea".
  Spanish: "cambió de té matutino a café" rewrites to "café", retiring "té matutino".
- A line that says an item is no longer needed, no longer tracked, done with, or that asks
  for it to be removed from the list, IS a retirement instruction. Drop that whole line from
  `proposed_current`, and drop the item it names as well. Quote the named item in
  `retired_values`. Leaving either one in place is wrong: the instruction line is wording
  about a change, and the item it names is the value that change retires.
- Return no retired values when nothing was superseded.
- Return an empty proposed value when nothing remains current.

## Rewrite Verification

- Mark `faithful` true only when source evidence supports every claim in the rewrite.
- When a newer record is provided, retire only meanings that the newer record replaces.
- Reject any unsupported fact, entity, quantity, or claim.
- Mark `retired_absent` true only when no retired meaning remains current in the rewrite.
- Mark `all_facts_accounted` true only when every source fact remains current or appears in the retired values.
- Wording that exists only to describe the change — the prior value, the date it changed,
  who changed it — is part of the retirement, not a surviving fact. Its absence from the
  rewrite never makes `all_facts_accounted` false.
- Accept paraphrases that keep the same meaning.

## Clause Carry

- Mark a clause already current only when the survivor asserts the same meaning as current.
- A negation, quotation, or past description is not a current assertion.
- Different words with the same meaning count as current.