Your person in a house

Many agents look for a memory that follows their person from chat to chat and from one assistant to the next. For preferences and a few facts, the memory built into an assistant does that with no work. A house is for more: the person as part of a body of work, with projects and decisions that a later agent must understand. In a house, the person is not a profile beside the data but an individual in the same graph as everything else. Every call below was made against a running house on 2026-10-04.

The person and what they prefer

create_person makes the person; set_property with versioned keeps their preferences in a slot whose earlier wordings stay readable:

create_person  "Maria Keller"
set_property   Maria Keller  ["Preferences"]  "Answers in German, short, every claim with its source."  versioned: true
set_property   Maria Keller  ["Preferences"]  "… ; dates as 12.03.1712."                              versioned: true
get_history    Maria Keller  ["Preferences"]  → both wordings, newest first

A project of their own

A kind of thing the house does not know yet gets an aspect with define_aspect; an instance comes from create_individual. A link form says who works on it:

define_aspect       Name: Project, Status: Versioned
create_individual   Project  "Chronicle of Lautereck, 1700-1750"
set_property        the chronicle  ["Status"]  "Chapter 2, the parish registers, in progress."  context: Project
define_form         "Works on"  Role: Enum [Owner, Contributor]
assert_formed_link  "Works on"  Maria Keller → the chronicle  {Role: Owner}

Decisions, so that nobody reopens them

A decision is a value of a form of one's own, with the reason the person gave, a date with assert_time, and a link to what it concerns:

define_form         "Decision"  Decision: Storable, Reason: Storable
store_value         "Decision"  {Decision: "Names are spelt as in the registers; modern forms go into notes.",
                                 Reason: "Readers must find the entry in the original."}
assert_time         the decision  At 2026-09-28
define_form         "Concerns"  (no properties)
assert_formed_link  "Concerns"  the decision → the chronicle

A reference inside a value is content, not a link: a decision that only names its project in a property does not show up when you describe the project. The link form does.

What a second assistant does

Another assistant, connected to the same house through the reader door, knows nothing but the house. find_things with the aspect Person finds Maria Keller. describe shows her preferences and the project she owns; describe of the project shows its status and every decision that concerns it. That is the whole briefing, and it does not depend on which assistant wrote it.

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