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Almanac stores a person’s maintained understanding and ongoing work. Original services retain their own email, calendar entries and other content. An agent uses both: saved understanding supplies context, while an original can establish what was actually said or what is true now.

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Understanding and its evidence

A person record is an article about someone, with structured facts and a Markdown body. An organisation, place, event, creative work, topic or general page provides a different kind of maintained understanding. Each has a stable identity and a canonical path; the path addresses a hosted record, not a local Markdown file. A source identifies an original. Registering an email thread as a source makes it a citation target; it does not turn the thread into an article or fetch its full contents. A citation connects a claim in an article to that source. The evidence lifecycle preserves this chain so a later reader can inspect the original and judge whether it still supports the saved understanding. A saved record can become stale even when its citation is valid: Sam may have changed jobs again. Read the current original when the task depends on current facts, and distinguish a past observation from a present conclusion.

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Conversation and work

A session holds a conversation and its history. A task tracks an outcome and has one primary session. Tracking an existing conversation adds task metadata to that same session; it does not copy its messages into a new task conversation. A project groups related tasks and explains their shared purpose and decisions. Tasks own their own state. A project article should help someone understand the work, rather than maintain a second manually synchronized list of task statuses. Tasks and projects shows how to preserve these links. Reading a session never starts an agent. Creating a task with an initial_instruction can queue real work; creating saved state without that instruction is a different action. Conversations explains the boundary between stored history and execution.

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Choose the surface that owns the answer

There is no single search command that searches all these surfaces. Following the owner prevents a summary from being mistaken for original evidence. The command map gives the direct entry points. Tasks stay open until they are done or canceled. Snooze a task to hide it from the active list until a chosen date, without changing its deadline. Snoozed tasks remain accessible in the Snoozed view. Agent activity is shown separately from the task outcome.