MerchantBench profile verification

Type: agentic-system-analyses/types/agentic-system-verification.md

Verification

I checked all ten axes of the memory profile: scope, natural units, positive findings, evidence bases and inventory coverage. Reconciliation makes MEM-OBJ-memory-doc the canonical scratchpad object. The combined epistemic handler container remains valid alongside the separate write/read routes; no classification requires treating those containers as competing mechanisms.

Storage and representation distinguish document/archive files, process-local history, persisted trace files and the visible external SQLite store. Textual interpretation is separated from symbolic metadata and request structure. Visible Hermes session display is not used to classify opaque externally consumed payloads. Grouped local units share the relevant substrate or consumption coverage; external alternatives retain partial or uninspected assessments (MEM-OBJ-memory-history, MEM-OBJ-history, MEM-OBJ-step-traces, MEM-RTE-trace-inspection, RT-RTE-hermes-launch).

Lineage findings classify immediate authorship, copying, recording and metadata compilation without asserting complete initial provenance. Optional extraction is afforded rather than observed. Write agency separately classifies model/software admission, the explicit human save decision, automatic history/trace capture and profile preparation; generic callers and external update mechanisms remain unresolved (MEM-RTE-document-write, MEM-OBJ-history, MEM-OBJ-step-traces, RT-RTE-hermes-launch).

Authority is attached to actual consumers: document and historical text supply knowledge/context, and foreground experience affords a durable-note update with learning authority. That update force is distinct from downstream advisory use and does not establish improved capacity. The revised archive-marker unit emits no routing value: counting markers establishes output numbering, not route selection. Its not-determinable assessment preserves the established computation without inventing an authority effect (MEM-BAP-document-guidance, MEM-OBJ-history, MEM-OBJ-memory-history, RT-RTE-context-trim).

Curation findings remain supported for full replacement, empty replacement with archived history, local eviction/filtering and whole-run forgetting. The revised optional note-production unit emits no consolidation value. A preservation request and arbitrary-body admission do not establish the semantic transformation, and the rationale now retains that distinction. The changed unit, axis note and rationale resolve the predecessor's consolidation objection without withdrawing the independently supported revision, withdrawal or forgetting mechanisms (MEM-RTE-document-write, MEM-OBJ-memory-history, RT-RTE-context-trim, EPI-RTE-memory-document, MEM-RTE-run-withdrawal).

Read-back separates requested document/trace delivery and archive-marker reads from automatic reuse of retained foreground history. The latter is a coarse push selected by recency, role boundaries and budget. Requested run/agent/step addressing does not establish identifier-based push, and archive marker access does not establish a historical-body restore route. Signal inapplicability is local to the requested reads; unresolved external selectors remain uninspected (MEM-RTE-document-read, MEM-RTE-trace-inspection, MEM-OBJ-memory-history, RT-RTE-context-trim).

Trace learning remains an afforded automatic experience-to-document-to-later-context chain, not a mandatory save, wired summarizer, exercised learning or demonstrated benefit. Recorded conversational turns and tool exchanges support its afforded session-log and tool-trace source findings. Raw retention alone receives no positive learning classification or unsupported negative. External update routes and original inputs remain unresolved rather than absent or inapplicable (MEM-OBJ-history, MEM-RTE-document-write, MEM-RTE-document-read, MEM-CLM-telemetry-limits).

Both supplied correction answers are supported by the revised units and their dependent rationale. I independently reassessed the predecessor's objections rather than treating them as established defects. No unsupported emitted value or materially misleading coverage claim remains. All axes stay partial, preserving external Hermes uncertainty within the extracted comparison data. Those express qualifications are faithful uncertainty, not additional publication limits. No observed or causal evidence is implied. Source-read log: none; this judgment uses the handed records and annotations only.

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