Shared memory in a multi-agent system degrades into cruft unless curation is an assigned office with authority to retire entries.

groundsFences, not Sandboxes, Steve Yegge

I saw that they hadn't been curating it, just growing it. It had a lot of cruft — for instance, old rulings that were obsolete or had changed.

backsCollective Core v0.2.1, LivingIP

Material claims, positions, identity selections, evaluations, decisions, public commitments, and protected changes must preserve their source, proposer, concise rationale, review, authorization, and revision history. Store reviewable decision bases, not private chain-of-thought.

groundsFences, not Sandboxes, Steve Yegge

Wheelhouse currently consists of 450 legal artifacts, in categories that include offices/seats, runbooks, rulings, patrols/tripwires, authority envelopes, and all the mechanical patterns, each with specific meanings and purposes.