Memory
What Clarity keeps and answers from. A curated, durable graph, kept separate from raw reading and from answers.
Memory is what Clarity keeps and answers from. It works like an analyst with a finite, well-kept memory. It does not search every document ever seen. It keeps three things separate.
Reading is the per-source pass: everything a document says, pulled out in full by extraction. It is working material, kept only long enough to reconcile, audit, and consolidate.
The answer draws on memory but never writes back into it. No answer text, no product state, ever lands in the graph.
A curated memory
Memory is curated, and that is what makes it dependable. Five rules govern what it keeps.
It keeps what matters. Before a development is committed, Clarity weighs how material it is (does it move something an investor cares about?) and how novel it is against what memory already holds. Routine noise is held back. Market-moving events are kept.
It puts each development in the right story. A new development is attached to the best existing story by meaning, shared entities, timing, and theme. A new story is opened only when nothing fits. Unrelated stories stay separate even when they name the same companies, so a lawsuit and an earnings beat about one firm never collapse into a single thread.
It grows stronger with corroboration. When several sources report the same development, even in different words, Clarity reinforces one fact and raises its evidence count instead of writing duplicates. More independent coverage ranks that fact higher later.
It keeps cause and effect straight. Causal links carry an explicit direction, strength, and lag, and the direction lives on the link, never in a name. This is what lets Clarity trace a shock from geopolitics through a commodity to opposite-signed moves in two stocks.
It forgets on purpose. A finite memory has to let go. Low-salience detail ages out. Stale specifics are compressed into a story's running summary, superseded facts retire once nothing needs them, and quiet stories are archived to a compact gist. This curation is the work of dreaming.
Time and supersession
Memory is temporal. A changed fact is never overwritten: its predecessor is stamped with an end date and marked no longer current, while the new fact opens its own validity window. A role and its history coexist. A former CEO and a current one both stand, each with its own window, and a company holds one current occupant of a role at a time. Because every fact carries its window, memory can answer "what is true now" and "what was true then" from the same graph.
Every entity, claim, relationship, and asset link is written with the source it came from, so each fact in an answer can be traced back to its document. The same provenance drives inline citations.
Because the answer never writes to memory, asking Clarity a question can't pollute what it knows. Learning happens only through ingestion.
For how memory is read back into a cited answer (intent, retrieval, ranking, and coverage states), see Pipeline → Answers Out.
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