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17 posts on temporal validity, stale-fact errors, software histories, and local coding context, grounded in the paper series and arXiv:2606.26511.

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5 min read Paper 4

Standard versus Deep Evidence: How to Choose the Context Budget

Standard mode uses 8,192 evidence tokens; Deep uses 24,000. These are source budgets, not model context windows or the R454 7,000-token research budget. Screenshots were captured on 0.7.13.

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Evidence literacy
6 min read Paper 1

Why an AI Answer Can Cite a Source and Still Be Wrong

A citation is not a proof. Three small examples show an irrelevant source, an outdated source, and an unsupported conclusion. Inspect the passage, not only the link.

evidence RAG stale-fact error
Paper 2 published
8 min read Paper 2, 1

Temporal Validity on Real GitHub Fixes: Paper 2 Is on arXiv

arXiv:2608.20685 validates deterministic supersession on 130 marker-free atomic transitions from 707 SWE-bench GitHub issues. MemStrata reaches 0.91 accuracy versus RAG 0.57-0.59, with stale-fact error near 0 versus 36-38%.

arXiv SWE-bench GitHub
Paper 4 evaluation notes
7 min read Paper 4, 1

Why LongMemEval Scores Are Not Comparable Across Memory Products

LongMemEval is not one number. A useful comparison states the dataset, reader, evidence budget, judge and failure handling. The public MemStrata R454 figure is 84.0% (420/500) judged by GPT 5.5.

LongMemEval evaluation Qwen
Separate experiment note
7 min read Paper 1

Beyond Code: Temporal Supersession Generalizes to World Knowledge

Oracle experiments on synthetic world-knowledge facts hit 1.000 accuracy / 0.000 stale in that protocol. Remaining error is extraction. This note is not the Paper 4 conversational 27B evaluation.

world knowledge generalization TEMPO
Paper 3: earlier design notes
8 min read Paper 3

Detect-and-Flag: Honest Memory for the 76% of Code That Is Not a Triple

You cannot supersede logic you cannot extract. The earlier structural-staleness design marks scope-level code changes and warns at retrieval — without faking understanding or breaking the deterministic moat.

structural staleness tree-sitter code agents
Paper 2 methodology
8 min read Paper 2, 1

SWE-bench Longitudinal: How to Build an Evolving-Code Evaluation

Paper 2 extracts 130 clean atomic transitions from 707 SWE-bench GitHub fixes. This article explains how that benchmark is constructed and what its scope allows you to conclude.

SWE-bench code agents benchmarks
Research explainer
9 min read Paper 1

Why RAG Cannot Tell Time: The Stale-Fact Error Problem for AI Agents

When knowledge evolves, the evaluated retrieval baseline retrieves both stale and current facts with near-identical embeddings. Stale-fact errors in that protocol are structural, not a tuning problem.

RAG stale-fact error AI agents

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