---
type: handoff
topic: agent-wiki
status: active
created: 2026-04-07
updated: 2026-04-07
source_notes:
  - [[ideas/2026-04-07 Dissenting views on persistent agent wikis]]
derived_from:
  - [[research/agent-wiki/sources/dissenting-views-on-persistent-agent-wikis]]
  - [[research/agent-wiki/outputs/wiki-vs-rag-comparison]]
  - [[research/agent-wiki/health-check]]
confidence: high
---

# Next Session Handoff

## Current State

The workspace is in a stronger place than the first pass. It now has both the pro-pattern case for LLM-maintained wikis and a serious dissenting source that pushes on governance, provenance, memory poisoning, and drift.

The current best synthesis is a hybrid model:

- compiled wiki for continuity, reusable synthesis, and longitudinal thesis formation
- retrieval over canonical notes for verification, freshness, and source-fidelity backstops

The wiki should be treated as a governed interpretation layer, not a silent authority store.

## What Changed This Session

- Ingested the dissent note into `sources/dissenting-views-on-persistent-agent-wikis.md`
- Added the concept `concepts/governed-interpretation-layer.md`
- Added the durable comparison output `outputs/wiki-vs-rag-comparison.md`
- Updated the first-pass thesis to reflect the hybrid conclusion
- Re-ran lint and recorded the remaining gaps in `health-check.md`

## Most Important Files To Reopen

- [[research/agent-wiki/outputs/wiki-vs-rag-comparison|Wiki vs RAG Comparison]]
- [[research/agent-wiki/concepts/governed-interpretation-layer|Governed Interpretation Layer]]
- [[research/agent-wiki/outputs/first-pass-thesis|First-Pass Thesis]]
- [[research/agent-wiki/health-check|Health Check]]

## Main Remaining Gaps

- There is still no strong implementation-oriented source showing how provenance or memory-integrity controls work in a markdown-first research system.
- The current corpus is stronger on conceptual framing than on operational safeguards.
- `first-pass-thesis` and `wiki-vs-rag-comparison` still overlap somewhat and should be watched for drift.
- Promotion criteria may deserve their own concept page if they keep showing up as a recurring governance concern.

## Best Next Move

Ingest one implementation-heavy source on one of these:

- provenance-aware memory systems
- verifiable retrieval or citation-backed synthesis
- memory poisoning or prompt-injection defenses for persistent agent memory
- evaluation/attestation methods for maintained knowledge bases

Then run:

1. `Ingest this source into research/agent-wiki`
2. `Lint research/agent-wiki`
3. `Query research/agent-wiki: what concrete safeguards should a governed interpretation layer require?`

## Promotion Watchlist

- `compiled-knowledge-layer`
- `governed-interpretation-layer`
- `simplicity-before-autonomy`
- `obsidian-as-agent-ide`