---
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.

```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.
- **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
  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`.
- **`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.
- **`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`.
- **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`.
- 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.

## Exact headings

Never annotate headings or rename `Facts` labels: code reads them by name. Preserve the runner's
`Investigation:` line unchanged.