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Anamnesis: An Authority-Preserving Runtime Contract for Persistent AI Memory

Transcripts preserve events but not currency, vector indexes find similar passages but not authority, and summaries save tokens while hiding uncertainty and lineage. Anamnesis separates source authority, epistemic status, retrieval utility, visibility authority, and executable authority, and forbids authority inflation through retrieval or summarization.

Dan Andrei
August 2026
Preprint · v1.0