SYSE.43:4.1 - Choose the receiving use and retained content

Name the continuation or recurring task that memory should support. Recover the facts or experience it would otherwise have to obtain again. Keep content that changes a later choice, result interpretation or recovery, rather than storing a transcript because it is available.

Distinguish authoritative observations, past episodes, tentative inferences, preferences and pointers to procedural material. Retain source, subject, relevant time or edition, and applicability where their loss could change use. A historical observation stays historical after the world changes. A remembered permission does not establish permission for another operation.

For an interrupted effect, preserve the attempt and unresolved state needed by SYSE.42/SYSE.26. For an episode, retain what was attempted, under which conditions, what was observed and why the result mattered. Avoid replacing an observed failure with the later model’s explanation of its cause.