02 / field notes

Research with
somewhere to go.

Practical notes on the architecture beneath creative work: agents, memory, metadata, automation, and the human checkpoints that keep systems useful.

Your AI assistant doesn’t need more memory. It needs better memory governance.

A design brief for provenance, confidence, expiration, and correction in creator-focused memory systems.

A practical architecture for filename normalization, metadata inspection, duplicate detection, classification, and review.