Memory Item

CURIE: gmeow:MemoryItem
IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/MemoryItem
Category: class
Defined by: gmeow:slices/ai
Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

An observation/claim in the role of an agent's remembered belief (gmeow:memoryOf the remembering agent; gmeow:memoryKind the cognitive register). A gufo:Role on the UNIVERSAL claim construct — any claim form can be remembered, and being remembered is contingent, never an essence. Belief revision is supersession with gmeow:displayable false (P10), never deletion: what an agent believed WHEN is a query, not an archaeology project. The substrate under the gmeow client's Memory and the MCP store/recall/revise triad (P14).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Observation

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:MemoryItem as a specialized kind of gmeow:Observation. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Grounded Claim

Source: slices/core/ai/examples/grounded-claim.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-ai-examples-grounded-claim

# The GROUNDED claim: generated by the invocation, attributed to the model,
# pinned to the exact evidentiary bytes. ALSO remembered (MemoryItem role).
ex:claim-close-2200 a gmeow:StandpointClaim, gmeow:MemoryItem ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:assistant ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:stmt-2200 ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodLlmExtraction ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:probable ;
    gmeow:wasGeneratedBy ex:invocation-19 ;
    gmeow:wasAttributedTo ex:assistant ;
    gmeow:groundedIn ex:span-close-2200 ;
    gmeow:memoryOf ex:assistant ;
    gmeow:memoryKind gmeow:memoryKindSemantic .

Attention Interest Memory

Source: slices/core/cognition/examples/attention-interest-memory.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-cognition-examples-attention-interest-memory

# --- Suppression, not deletion (Principle 10): forgetting, via the documented
#     remembers ↔ gmeow:MemoryItem bridge . Nova's remembering of a subject is
#     BACKED by MemoryItem(s) about it; a faded memory is the MemoryItem marked
#     gmeow:displayable false — retained for "what she remembered WHEN", never erased.
#     The bridge is prose, so cognition adds no dependency on the ai slice (Principle 9).
ex:novaWorkshopMemory a gmeow:MemoryItem ;   # propositional backing of a now-faded remembering of wd:Q189436 (bioinformatics)
    gmeow:memoryOf     ex:nova ;
    gmeow:memoryKind   gmeow:memoryKindEpisodic ;
    gmeow:displayable  false .               # forgotten — withheld, not deleted

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Observation

Usage Advice

Use when

Use to cast any observation/claim into the contingent ROLE of an agent's remembered belief — the substrate under the gmeow client's Memory and the MCP store/recall/revise triad (P14).

Avoid when

Avoid making memory an essence or a separate claim copy (it is a gufo:Role on the universal claim construct — the same claim may be one agent's memory and another's input) and never revise by deletion; supersede with gmeow:displayable false so 'what was believed when' stays queryable (P10).

How to use

Type the existing claim node gmeow:MemoryItem, set gmeow:memoryOf and gmeow:memoryKind, carry salience on the EXISTING statement-level gmeow:importanceLevel and recency on the statement clocks; revise by superseding with gmeow:displayable false rather than deleting.

Examples

ex:m1 a gmeow:MemoryItem; gmeow:memoryOf ex:lillith; gmeow:memoryKind gmeow:memoryKindSemantic.