feat: Enhance memory management and promotion rules for Mattermost context and user prompts

knowledge/agent-memory-rules.md

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+# Agent Memory Rules
+
+## Goal
+
+Make workspace memory maintenance part of the agent's normal job, not a separate optional workflow.
+
+---
+
+## Default Agent Behavior
+
+For any meaningful prompt, the agent should decide whether the interaction changes project memory.
+
+This applies to:
+
+- direct user prompts
+- Mattermost sync results
+- translated notes
+- standup generation
+- manager-update drafting
+- debugging discussions
+- corrections to previous understanding
+
+The agent should not wait for a separate promotion command when the right update is already clear.
+
+---
+
+## What Counts As Memory-Worthy
+
+Capture information automatically when it is:
+
+- project-relevant
+- explicit enough to preserve safely
+- likely to matter in a future session
+- useful for standups, debugging, or supervisor communication
+
+Examples:
+
+- confirmed story creation, points, scope, or priority
+- confirmed reproduction constraints
+- newly clarified root cause framing
+- approved manager guidance that changes work direction
+- confirmed version, dependency, or rollout facts tied to current work
+- corrections to previously stored project context
+
+---
+
+## What The Agent Must Do
+
+When new memory-worthy information appears, the agent should:
+
+1. decide whether it is daily, current-state, durable, or decision-level context
+2. update the smallest correct set of files
+3. correct stale or conflicting existing statements
+4. answer the user using the refreshed context
+
+Do not ask the user what to promote unless the ambiguity is real and material.
+
+---
+
+## File Selection
+
+### `ai/logs/YYYY-MM-DD.md`
+
+Default destination for:
+
+- same-day progress
+- same-day findings
+- scoped reproduction notes
+- story and approval movement
+- context that is important now but may evolve later
+
+### `ai/state/current.md`
+
+Use when the fact changes the active work window, including:
+
+- current priorities
+- currently active story scope
+- current blockers or debugging constraints
+- manager direction that changes the next few days of work
+
+### `ai/context/project.md`
+
+Use for durable project knowledge that should survive beyond the current work window.
+
+### `ai/context/people/jeff.md`
+
+Use only when a communication preference or manager expectation becomes stable enough to reuse repeatedly.
+
+### `ai/context/decisions/*.md`
+
+Use for explicit confirmed decisions with ongoing impact.
+
+---
+
+## What Not To Store
+
+Do not store:
+
+- tool failures
+- sync attempts
+- generic urgency messages
+- duplicate paraphrases of the same fact
+- weak guesses
+- operational chatter that does not change project understanding
+
+---
+
+## Correction Rule
+
+If new information supersedes old memory:
+
+- update the existing canonical file
+- do not leave stale and corrected versions side by side
+- preserve qualifiers if the fact is only partially confirmed
+
+The agent should behave like a senior engineer maintaining project notes, not like a chat assistant accumulating transcripts.