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19 added, 5 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 profile: work
- from what they wrote; `Our relationship` = account owner; `How the user
- writes to them` = not applicable.
+ - **A page titled by an address or handle is renamed** the moment the material
+ names the person: their signature, or what the user calls them in a greeting
+ (`# mei.l1990@outlook.com` → `# 李梅`; `# vern.chan` → `# Vern Chan`). The old
+ title stays in `Also known as:`. Leaving the address as the title when the
+ name is in the material is wrong.
+ - **Not a person** (a service, a bot, a shared or test inbox, a calendar or
+ agent account the user runs): the lead's first sentence says what it is and
+ `Role:` reads `Not a person: <what it is>`; every section still present, the
+ rest describing what it sends. A real notebook wrote the user's own agent
+ inbox up as a correspondent whose identity was "not established".
+ - 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
+ - **`How the user writes to them`** comes from the user's own messages to them
+ (language, tone, length, how they open, what they ask); **`Cadence`** from the
+ dates (`about weekly, July–September`). Each is `Unknown` only when there is
+ no such message, or a single one.
- **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.
- **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:
`co rem list people --aliases` reads its headings and `Contact` labels. **`Open threads` is mandatory**: who owes what,
since when.