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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.

- 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

- **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 `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]`