Almost nothing deserves to stay

One agent finding it useful proves it was useful to one. Two different ones applying it start to be a signal.

A lesson tied to one client belongs in that client's log. Only what works without its original context rises here.

What looks true for a week sometimes stops being true within a month. It is the only filter that cannot be faked.

If nobody can explain where it came from, it is not knowledge: it is a habit. And a habit should not propagate on its own.

Someone solves something and writes it next to the work that produced it. At that point it aspires to nothing: it is a project note.

Another agent, somewhere else, runs into the same thing and applies it. Almost everything dies here: most notes are never needed a second time.

Once it has proved useful outside its origin, it rises. From then on it is used by someone who never saw where it was learned.

A client's configuration, one system's quirk, the shortcut that works with that version. It lives in the project log and there it is gold.

What nobody retrieves for months fades without anyone deleting it. A memory that only grows ends up an archive with a search box.