rem-page-person · diff
git:20261015.1818f52 to git:20261015.1ac5658
48 added, 40 removed. Audit A to A.
---
name: rem-page-person
description: Fixed sections, roster labels and evidence rules for a person's page; composed into every stage that writes one.
---
# A person's page
Read supplied page/material. Write, check, fix once, stop; use this format.
- This is a growing relationship memory; never shrink it to a summary. Keep
- every section in this order; missing evidence says `Unknown` or
- `None as of <date>`. Every factual sentence cites `[n]` into `Sources`.
- Placeholders are not evidence.
+ The user reads it top-down to decide what to do next: the lead and `Open
+ threads` are the page, the rest is reference. Keep every section in this
+ order; missing evidence says `Unknown` or `None as of <date>`. Every factual
+ sentence cites `[n]` into `Sources`. Placeholders are not evidence.
```markdown
# <observed name>
<lead>. Last contact: <date>.
## Facts
- Email: Unknown
- Phone: Unknown
- Company: Unknown
- Role: Unknown
- Location: Unknown
- Time zone: Unknown
- Links: Unknown
- How we know them: Unknown
- First contact: Unknown
- Last contact: Unknown
- Signing entity: Unknown
- Handles: Unknown
- Language: Unknown
- Also known as: Unknown
## Insight
## Who they are
## Why they are here
## Our relationship
## History
## Open threads
## How they communicate
## How the user writes to them
## Cadence
## Uncertainties
## Sources
```
Rules:
- - **Lead**: 2–3 cited sentences, in order: who they are to the user (role,
- organisation, why they matter); what is open or latest;
- `Last contact: <date>` and channel. Never open on a gap.
- `Nothing open as of <date>` needs closure evidence.
+ - **Lead: three cited sentences, then `Last contact: <date>, <channel>.`**
+ (1) Who they are to the user: role, organisation, why they matter. (2) What
+ is live: the most consequential open item, who owes whom, the ask as a short
+ exact quote with its date and any due date; with nothing open, how the last
+ thread ended. (3) The user's next step (reply, decide, chase, wait until a
+ date), or `Nothing open as of <date>` with the closing evidence. Never open
+ on a gap or a doubt.
- **One voice**: the owner is `the user` in every sentence, never their name,
`you` or `we`.
- - **`Facts` is data, written first.** One line a field, labels exact, every
- one present; a missing value is exactly `Unknown`. Several values: `; `
- between, each `value (qualifier) [n]` (`+61 2 5550 0142 (work) [3];
- +61 400 555 019 (mobile) [5]`). Dates `YYYY-MM-DD`; convert source instants
- in the notebook timezone, keeping stated event dates separate. Every value is cited
+ - **`Facts` is data, written first.** One line a field, these labels only and
+ every one present; never add a label. A missing value is exactly `Unknown`.
+ Several values: `; ` between, each `value (qualifier) [n]` (`+61 2 5550 0142
+ (work) [3]; +61 400 555 019 (mobile) [5]`). Dates `YYYY-MM-DD` in the
+ notebook timezone; stated event dates stay separate. Every value is cited
except `Email`, `Handles`, `Also known as`. A contact detail never goes in a
sentence instead of its field. `Links`: LinkedIn, personal or company site.
`How we know them`: who introduced whom, or the first thread.
- - **`Insight` is 2–4 cited bullets of at most 30 words, each starting `Now:`, `Changed:`,
- `At stake:` or `Pattern:`** — what the inbox does not say outright: what they
- are to the user's work now; what moved recently; what is at risk or owed;
- a pattern over time (reply speed, topics, who chases whom). Never generic
- ("key stakeholder", "valuable relationship"); thin material: `- Unknown`.
+ - **`Insight` is 2–4 cited bullets of at most 30 words, each starting `Now:`,
+ `Changed:`, `At stake:` or `Pattern:`**: what no other section says outright:
+ what moved, what is at risk, a pattern over time (reply speed, topics, who
+ chases whom). Never restate the lead or an open thread; never generic
+ ("key stakeholder"); thin material: `- Unknown`.
- **`Language` is observed**: the language they write to the user in.
- **`How they communicate` quotes how they ask to be reached** (“WhatsApp me,
not email”) and lists no channel they did not offer or use.
- - Attribute group replies by exact From/To/Cc; relay addresses are not `Email`.
- - **`Company` needs stated employment.** Student or mailbox affiliation proves
- none: `Unknown`. Link schools/groups in relationship text, not as employers.
+ - **`Company` needs stated employment**; a student or mailbox domain proves
+ none (`Unknown`). Link schools/groups in relationship text.
- **`Why they are here` is not `Who they are`**: how they entered the user's
world, who approached whom, what each side wants.
- **`Our relationship` is a state, not a log**: kind, where it stands, its
terms, who owes what. A term (amount, ratio, date, condition) is quoted with
- its date: `“<exact words>” (YYYY-MM-DD) [n]`, never restated in other words.
- Keep each local link with its relationship, citations and privacy markers;
- separate different events onto separate lines.
- - **`History` is at most 16 milestones**, newest first, `- YYYY-MM-DD: <what
- changed> [n]`: agreed, signed, delivered, met. Not a send or a newsletter.
- Past 16, fold the oldest into one line per year.
- - **Open threads quote the ask**, one line each: `- YYYY-MM-DD — <who> asked
- <whom>: “<exact words>” [n] — <status, as of date, evidence>`. Reports,
- optional offers, prerequisites and past events create none; a missing
- outcome is `Unknown`, not a current debt. Keep an explicit due date and any
- permission to proceed without a reply. Closure: `Nothing open as of <date>`.
- - **Say things once.** Doubt goes in `Uncertainties`; empty sections stay
- `Unknown`.
+ its date: `“<exact words>” (YYYY-MM-DD) [n]`. Keep each local link with its
+ citations and privacy markers. Separate events, separate lines.
+ - **`History` is the short true story**:
+ one line per thread, at most sixteen, newest first,
+ `- YYYY-MM-DD: <what it was about> — <how it ended> [n]`; older threads
+ fold into one line a year; a thread that
+ stopped says `no reply after <date>`. Not a send or a newsletter.
+ - **`Open threads` lists only what someone still owes**, one line each, the
+ user's debts first, then by due date:
+ `- The user owes <Name>: <what> — “<exact ask>” (YYYY-MM-DD) [n] — due <date>`
+ or `- <Name> owes the user: …`, `- <A> owes <B>: …`, ending `— open as of
+ <date>` when no due date was set. A later reply, a delivered item or a passed
+ event date closes a thread: it moves to `History`. An ask with no movement
+ for 60 days goes to `History` as `went quiet`. Reports, optional offers,
+ invitations, prerequisites and past events create none. Keep an explicit
+ due date and any permission to proceed without a reply. Closure:
+ `Nothing open as of <date>`.
+ - **Say each thing once, plainly.** A fact lives in one section; the lead and
+ `Insight` point to it. Status is a dated fact (`no reply since 2026-10-12`),
+ never "is not established", "unconfirmed" or "in the supplied mail". A
+ doubt that changes the user's next step goes once in `Uncertainties` (at
+ most five), never where you searched; empty sections stay `Unknown`.
- **Keep what the map already knew.** `Email`, `Handles`, `Also known as`
- arrive filled; keep them, except relays. Material about somebody else with the same name is
- left out and named in `Uncertainties`.
+ arrive filled; keep them, except relay addresses. Material about somebody else with
+ the same name is left out and named in `Uncertainties`.
- Say their name or "they"; "he"/"she" only where their own words show it.
- - **`Uncertainties`**: at most five unknowns that change the user's next step;
- never where you searched.
- **Sources**: `- [n] <source id> — <date>`; claims stay in sentences. Never an
- assistant's memory file.
- Reuse numbers and list only cited sources.
+ assistant's memory file. Reuse numbers and list only cited sources.
## Exact headings
Never annotate headings or rename `Facts` labels: code reads them by name. Preserve the runner's
`Investigation:` line unchanged.