alt Hacker Newscertainty scoring sounds useful but fwiw the harder problem is temporal - a fact that was true yesterday might be wrong today, and your agent has no way to know which version to trust without some kind of causal ordering on the writes.
certainty scoring sounds useful but fwiw the harder problem is temporal - a fact that was true yesterday might be wrong today, and your agent has no way to know which version to trust without some kind of causal ordering on the writes.
You're right, and it's the part that keeps me up. We handle it with versioned writes — each memory has a createdAt, observedAt, and a validUntil that can be set explicitly or inferred from context. Temporal scope gets embedded as metadata: "as of last session" vs "persistent fact."
Causal ordering is harder. Right now we surface both conflicting versions during retrieval with timestamps and let the agent reason about which is authoritative. It's not a complete solution — the agent can still pick wrong without the right reasoning context.
What you're describing is architecturally the right answer. We haven't built proper write-ordering yet. That's probably where the next cycle goes.