Source-Backed Pages

Raw captures are intentionally small. That makes them easy to search, deduplicate, correct, and cite, but a mature project needs more than a long list of fragments.

Distilled pages compose related captures into a wiki-style record. They are for concepts, projects, decisions, workflows, and recurring lessons that deserve a stable surface.

Origin tracks which memories contributed to a page. That source backing is part of the trust model: a page should not read like it appeared from nowhere.

When a page feels wrong, inspect the source memories and either correct the memory, refresh the page, or capture the missing context.

/distill asks Origin to synthesize or refresh pages from related memories. /read previews a page inside the agent session without forcing you to leave the tool.

Use distillation before a new project phase, after a long sprint, or when recall keeps surfacing the same cluster of memories.

Pages can become stale when new memories contradict them, extend them, or show that an old summary is no longer enough. Origin tracks stale_reasons so refresh work has a concrete cause.

Origin also tracks revision_state so refreshes can be deliberate. The point is not to overwrite human-readable records casually; it is to keep them improving as the project changes.

The Markdown files are readable and can be inspected with normal tools. If you hand-edit a page, treat it like a human-owned artifact.

When you need the system to learn something new, prefer capturing the atomic fact or correction too. That keeps search, provenance, and future pages aligned.