Memory critique
An event that flags a specific memory as inconsistent, outdated, or contradicted by more recent evidence. Generated by the critic agent, the reflection loop, or the grounding engine. Feeds the forgetting system's suppression and re-consolidation decisions.
Memory critiques are the mechanism by which the system actively marks knowledge as suspect rather than passively waiting for it to decay. A critique event identifies the target memory, the nature of the inconsistency (contradiction, staleness, confidence overstatement), the source that generated the critique (critic agent, reflection loop, grounding engine), and the supporting evidence. The forgetting system uses critique events as high-signal inputs to its suppression decisions - a memory that accumulates multiple critiques from independent sources is a strong candidate for suppression or re-consolidation before its decay timer would otherwise trigger. Critiques are stored in the audit stream and are auditable: operators can inspect why a memory was suppressed and trace it back to the specific evidence that triggered the critique events.