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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.