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name: rem-correspondent
description: Rules for investigating someone other than the user — composed after rem-investigate-person for every person page except the user's own.
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# Investigating someone the user corresponds with
+ - Before choosing milestones, survey the whole supplied date range. For an
+ evidence index, scan all entry headers and subjects in one bounded shell
+ read, then open the messages behind each distinct relationship thread across
+ older and newer months. Search for introductions, agreements, changes,
+ unanswered requests and changed signatures. Do not stop at the newest mail
+ or read every repeated notice in full. Report the files and months actually
+ read and any skipped relevant thread in the final reply.
+ - An `Insight` must connect evidence to a decision: an obligation still owed,
+ a role or relationship that changed, a repeated response pattern, or a
+ consequential next contact. Cite the underlying dated messages, mark
+ inference, and check later replies before calling anything open. More tokens
+ and more bullets do not make an insight better; stop when the relevant
+ threads support the finding and the remaining unknowns are explicit.
- **A page titled by an address is renamed** once the material names the
person (signature, or the user's greeting): `# mei.l1990@outlook.com` →
`# 李梅`, the address kept in `Also known as:`.
- **Not a person** (a service, bot, shared or test inbox, an account the user
runs): the lead says what it is and `Role:` reads `Not a person: <what>`.
- **`History` keeps at most eight milestones, newest first**, as the person
page requires. Combine older events by year; do not turn every message or
thread into a milestone. Keep the current relationship and obligations in
their own sections.
- **`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.