Relations (typed, human-confirmed)
The relation ledger records typed claims between memory items — "this decision revises that one", "this answers that question" — as an append-only record in shadow mode: relations exist alongside your memory and never change what any other surface does on their own.
The authority boundary is the whole design: machines may propose, and none may confirm. A decision requires an interactive terminal, and there is no flag that delegates it to an agent. Candidates never render on an entry's surface — the decision list is the one place they are visible. A chain a reader sees in the viewer's History panel is one a person vouched for.
Verbs
| command | what it does |
|---|---|
daimon relations list | Every renderable relation, candidates first; endpoint texts resolved at read time. --state filters; --json for rows. |
daimon relations show <rel-id> | One relation with its full proposal history. |
daimon relations confirm <rel-id> | Record a human confirmation of a candidate edge. Human-only: needs an interactive terminal. |
daimon relations reject <rel-id> | Record a human rejection — sticky against re-proposal. Human-only. |
daimon relations retract <rel-id> | Undo a confirmation; a fresh proposal may revive the edge. Human-only. |
Deletion contract
An edge is itself a claim about content, so relations honor daimon forget:
an edge touching a forgotten item is left out of every rendered surface and
counted nowhere, so a list never says that an item was forgotten. An endpoint a
person quarantined, or any endpoint while the trust ledger cannot be read,
keeps its edge and renders as the withheld marker instead of its text. An
endpoint that merely aged out of the checkpoint retention window is different:
it renders as [unresolved] and stays a valid record.
Advice for deciding
Read a chain whole before confirming its edges. Two items can look related pairwise because they share project vocabulary while being different thoughts — the honest decisions are "this is the same thought evolving" (confirm), "this edge is wrong" (reject), or leaving the candidate alone when you are not sure. An unconfirmed candidate is inert; a wrong confirmation is not.