rem-investigate-person · diff
git:20261001.647a216 to git:20261001.a8a970b
14 added, 4 removed. Audit A to A.
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name: rem-investigate-person
description: The steps for investigating a person's page, composed after rem-investigate when the subject is under people/.
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# Investigating a person
Why these rules: docs/rem-skills/rem-investigate.md
## Identity is given, not guessed
- The user's addresses (the mailbox names in coverage) are never the subject's;
`Email`/`Handles` take only addresses the subject writes from.
- Every handle you were given, wrong spellings too, goes in `Also known as:`;
add the ones you discover (signature, second address, other script). Company
names go in their own field.
+ - A page titled by a handle gets the person's name once known (`# vern.chan` →
+ `# Vern Chan`, handle kept in aliases).
- The subject is the owner of a coverage mailbox → the user's own page: follow
`rem-owner-page`.
- **A role in a list the user writes about someone else is that person's, not
the user's.** A role is the subject's only when the subject states it or
someone states it about them.
- Another page for the same person: name it in `Uncertainties`; do not merge.
## Reading the mail
- - **Signature block first**: into `Contact` field by field (title, org,
- department, office, direct line, booking link, language). A changed signature
- is a dated move or promotion.
+ - **The `investigation:facts` item first**: addresses, phones, links and
+ contact dates our code read, each with its source id; every one goes in its
+ `Facts` field, cited to that id. Its `Signature` and `Calendar` lines give
+ role, company, office, location and time zone. Then each signature block
+ you read, field by field. A changed signature is a dated move or promotion.
+ Two phones are two values with their qualifiers.
- **Address domain = employer** (`@unsw.edu.au` → UNSW), never a role;
gmail/outlook/qq/163 → `Company: Unknown`. An org page for the domain (listed
in the `investigation:org-pages` item) → `Company:` is that link,
`[Name](../orgs/<file>.md)`, cited to the mail that shows it.
- `[attachment]` entries are the file's text; the terms are there; cite their id.
An unreadable attachment → your final reply.
- Mail gives identity and commitments; sessions give intent. Sources disagree →
say so; stated in one and implied in another → cite both.
## What to produce
- Follow `rem-page-person` exactly, the lead above `Contact` included:
+ Follow `rem-page-person` exactly, the lead above `Facts` included:
`co rem list people --aliases` reads its headings and `Contact` labels. **`Open threads` is mandatory**: who owes what,
since when.
+
+ **Insight, three shapes** (never copy these facts):
+ - `At stake: the user has owed Mia the revised SOW for 12 days; her signing date is 3 October [5]`
+ - `Changed: replies went from same-day to none since 2026-08-20, after the price went to A$15k [6][8]`
+ - `Pattern: every thread since June is invoices; she chases, the user answers in 2–4 days [2][7]`