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package/README.md

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+# @agent-custody/state
+
+Governed memory for AI agents. Not a vector store: a ledger of facts where every write cites the receipt that caused it, carries valid time and transaction time, and can be superseded or retracted without losing what the agent believed at any earlier moment.
+
+Retrieval stays with whatever store you already use. This package owns provenance, time, and undo.
+
+## Getting started
+
+```bash
+npm install @agent-custody/state           # or bun add, pnpm add
+```
+
+Not on npm yet: the `@agent-custody` scope is still to be claimed. Until then, build from a clone and install the tarball:
+
+```bash
+bun install && bun run build               # at the repository root
+cd packages/state && bun pm pack           # writes agent-custody-state-0.1.0.tgz here
+npm install /path/to/agent-custody/packages/state/agent-custody-state-0.1.0.tgz   # in your project
+```
+
+```ts
+import { Ledger } from "@agent-custody/state";
+
+const ledger = new Ledger("./state/ledger.jsonl");
+const a = ledger.assert({ subject: "acct:42", predicate: "plan", value: "pro", space: "org", actor: "agent:support", source: { receiptId } });
+ledger.assert({ subject: "acct:42", predicate: "plan", value: "enterprise", space: "org", actor: "agent:sales", supersedes: a.fact.factId });
+ledger.retract({ factId: a.fact.factId, actor: "user:admin", reason: "poisoned by a tool result" });
+ledger.asOf({ validAt: "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z", txAt: "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z" });
+```
+
+[examples/01-ledger.ts](examples/01-ledger.ts) walks through a wrong write and its undo, step by step; run it with `node examples/01-ledger.ts` from this directory. The test suite runs it too.
+
+## The ledger
+
+`src/ledger.ts` is an append-only JSONL log of two kinds of event.
+
+- **assert** creates a fact: subject, predicate, value, the space it lives in (a person, a team, an org), the actor that wrote it, the source receipt id if the write went through a receipts producer, and the valid-time interval. An assert may **supersede** an earlier fact, which ends that fact's validity where the new one begins.
+- **retract** says a fact should never have been believed. This is the undo. The record stays, so queries about earlier moments still see the fact, and anything the retracted fact had superseded is believed again.
+
+Two clocks, kept apart on purpose:
+
+| | question it answers | set by |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| valid time | was this true in the world at T | the writer, defaults to now |
+| transaction time | did the ledger know it at T | the ledger, never the writer |
+
+`asOf({ validAt, txAt, space, subject, predicate })` returns the facts believed at a moment. Setting both times to the same instant answers "what did the agent believe on Tuesday", including beliefs later retracted. `history(factId)` returns every event that touched a fact.
+
+The ledger refuses to supersede a fact that is unknown, already superseded, or retracted, and refuses a replacement whose validity starts before the fact it replaces.
+
+## Layout
+
+```
+src/ledger.ts   the fact record, the two event kinds, as-of queries, supersession, retraction, JSONL persistence
+src/index.ts    public surface
+examples/       runnable walkthroughs, each ends with OK and is run by the test suite
+test/           one test per question a platform owner asks after a memory incident
+tsconfig.build.json  emits dist/ for consumers; the repo itself runs the .ts directly
+```
+
+## Plan
+
+**Done**
+
+- Bitemporal fact ledger with supersession, retraction, as-of and history queries, persisted as JSONL.
+
+**Next, in the order it pays off**
+
+1. A memory MCP server exposing write, read, supersede, and forget as tools, run behind the receipts gateway so every call is receipted and policy-checked and the source receipt id is filled in by the gateway rather than the caller.
+2. A consumed-facts field on receipts: the gateway records which fact ids a read returned, so later receipts in the session show what the agent relied on.
+3. Blast radius: given a fact id, every downstream receipt and derived fact that cited it.
+4. Trust tiers as Cedar policies over spaces and receipt provenance: a self-reported write cannot overwrite an org-space fact that was attested through the gateway.
+5. Write-through adapters for existing memory stores, tested against the real packages.
+6. Signed forget statements: a retention or deletion request produces a verifiable record of which facts were removed.

package/dist/index.d.ts

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+export { Ledger } from "./ledger.ts";
+export type { AsOf, AssertEvent, AssertInput, Fact, LedgerEvent, RetractEvent, RetractInput, Source } from "./ledger.ts";

package/dist/index.js

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+// Public surface of @agent-custody/state.
+export { Ledger } from "./ledger.js";

package/dist/ledger.d.ts

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+/** Where a write came from. A receipt id means the write went through a receipts producer and can be verified there. */
+export interface Source {
+    receiptId: string | null;
+}
+export interface Fact {
+    factId: string;
+    subject: string;
+    predicate: string;
+    value: unknown;
+    /** Which shared space the fact lives in: a person, a team, an org. ACLs attach here later. */
+    space: string;
+    /** Who wrote it: a user id, an agent id, a tool name. */
+    actor: string;
+    source: Source;
+    /** ISO timestamps. validTo is null while the fact is believed to still hold. */
+    validFrom: string;
+    validTo: string | null;
+    confidence: number | null;
+}
+/** An assert creates a fact version. If it supersedes an earlier fact, that fact's validity ends where this one begins. */
+export interface AssertEvent {
+    eventId: string;
+    kind: "assert";
+    txTime: string;
+    fact: Fact;
+    supersedes: string | null;
+}
+/** A retract says the fact should never have been believed. It is the undo. The record stays; queries before txTime still see it. */
+export interface RetractEvent {
+    eventId: string;
+    kind: "retract";
+    txTime: string;
+    factId: string;
+    actor: string;
+    reason: string;
+    source: Source;
+}
+export type LedgerEvent = AssertEvent | RetractEvent;
+export interface AssertInput {
+    subject: string;
+    predicate: string;
+    value: unknown;
+    space: string;
+    actor: string;
+    source?: Source;
+    validFrom?: string;
+    confidence?: number;
+    supersedes?: string;
+}
+export interface RetractInput {
+    factId: string;
+    actor: string;
+    reason: string;
+    source?: Source;
+}
+export interface AsOf {
+    /** Facts whose validity interval contains this instant. Default: now. */
+    validAt?: string;
+    /** Only events the ledger had recorded by this instant. Default: now. "What did the agent believe on Tuesday" sets both. */
+    txAt?: string;
+    space?: string;
+    subject?: string;
+    predicate?: string;
+}
+export declare class Ledger {
+    private readonly events;
+    private readonly file;
+    private readonly now;
+    constructor(file: string, opts?: {
+        now?: () => Date;
+    });
+    get size(): number;
+    assert(input: AssertInput): AssertEvent;
+    retract(input: RetractInput): RetractEvent;
+    /** The facts believed at a moment. Valid time answers "was it true then"; transaction time answers "did the ledger know it then". */
+    asOf(q?: AsOf): Fact[];
+    /** Every event that touched a fact, oldest first: its assert, the assert that superseded it, its retraction. */
+    history(factId: string): LedgerEvent[];
+    private factById;
+    private retractedAt;
+    private append;
+}

package/dist/ledger.js

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+// The fact ledger: an append-only JSONL log of events about what an agent believes.
+// Bitemporal. Valid time is when a fact was true in the world; transaction time is when the ledger learned of it.
+// Nothing is ever edited in place. Correcting a belief is a new event, so "what did the agent believe at T" is always answerable.
+import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
+import { appendFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { dirname } from "node:path";
+export class Ledger {
+    events = [];
+    file;
+    now;
+    constructor(file, opts = {}) {
+        this.file = file;
+        this.now = opts.now ?? (() => new Date());
+        if (existsSync(file)) {
+            for (const line of readFileSync(file, "utf8").split("\n")) {
+                if (line.trim())
+                    this.events.push(JSON.parse(line));
+            }
+        }
+        else {
+            mkdirSync(dirname(file), { recursive: true });
+        }
+    }
+    get size() {
+        return this.events.length;
+    }
+    assert(input) {
+        const txTime = this.now().toISOString();
+        const validFrom = input.validFrom ?? txTime;
+        if (input.supersedes !== undefined) {
+            const prior = this.factById(input.supersedes);
+            if (!prior)
+                throw new Error(`cannot supersede unknown fact ${input.supersedes}`);
+            if (prior.fact.validTo !== null)
+                throw new Error(`fact ${input.supersedes} is already superseded`);
+            if (this.retractedAt(input.supersedes))
+                throw new Error(`fact ${input.supersedes} is retracted`);
+            if (validFrom < prior.fact.validFrom)
+                throw new Error(`replacement cannot start before the fact it supersedes`);
+        }
+        const event = {
+            eventId: randomUUID(),
+            kind: "assert",
+            txTime,
+            fact: {
+                factId: randomUUID(),
+                subject: input.subject,
+                predicate: input.predicate,
+                value: input.value,
+                space: input.space,
+                actor: input.actor,
+                source: input.source ?? { receiptId: null },
+                validFrom,
+                validTo: null,
+                confidence: input.confidence ?? null,
+            },
+            supersedes: input.supersedes ?? null,
+        };
+        this.append(event);
+        return event;
+    }
+    retract(input) {
+        if (!this.factById(input.factId))
+            throw new Error(`cannot retract unknown fact ${input.factId}`);
+        if (this.retractedAt(input.factId))
+            throw new Error(`fact ${input.factId} is already retracted`);
+        const event = {
+            eventId: randomUUID(),
+            kind: "retract",
+            txTime: this.now().toISOString(),
+            factId: input.factId,
+            actor: input.actor,
+            reason: input.reason,
+            source: input.source ?? { receiptId: null },
+        };
+        this.append(event);
+        return event;
+    }
+    /** The facts believed at a moment. Valid time answers "was it true then"; transaction time answers "did the ledger know it then". */
+    asOf(q = {}) {
+        const validAt = q.validAt ?? this.now().toISOString();
+        const txAt = q.txAt ?? this.now().toISOString();
+        const known = this.events.filter((e) => e.txTime <= txAt);
+        const retracted = new Set(known.filter((e) => e.kind === "retract").map((e) => e.factId));
+        const facts = new Map();
+        for (const e of known) {
+            if (e.kind !== "assert")
+                continue;
+            facts.set(e.fact.factId, { ...e.fact });
+            if (e.supersedes && facts.has(e.supersedes) && !retracted.has(e.fact.factId)) {
+                facts.get(e.supersedes).validTo = e.fact.validFrom;
+            }
+        }
+        return [...facts.values()].filter((f) => !retracted.has(f.factId) &&
+            f.validFrom <= validAt &&
+            (f.validTo === null || validAt < f.validTo) &&
+            (q.space === undefined || f.space === q.space) &&
+            (q.subject === undefined || f.subject === q.subject) &&
+            (q.predicate === undefined || f.predicate === q.predicate));
+    }
+    /** Every event that touched a fact, oldest first: its assert, the assert that superseded it, its retraction. */
+    history(factId) {
+        return this.events.filter((e) => (e.kind === "assert" ? e.fact.factId === factId || e.supersedes === factId : e.factId === factId));
+    }
+    factById(factId) {
+        let found;
+        for (const e of this.events) {
+            if (e.kind === "assert" && e.fact.factId === factId)
+                found = { ...e, fact: { ...e.fact } };
+            else if (e.kind === "assert" && e.supersedes === factId && found && !this.retractedAt(e.fact.factId))
+                found.fact.validTo = e.fact.validFrom;
+        }
+        return found;
+    }
+    retractedAt(factId) {
+        return this.events.some((e) => e.kind === "retract" && e.factId === factId);
+    }
+    append(event) {
+        appendFileSync(this.file, JSON.stringify(event) + "\n");
+        this.events.push(event);
+    }
+}

package/package.json

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+{
+  "name": "@agent-custody/state",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "Governed memory for AI agents: a fact ledger with provenance, valid time, rollback, and lineage, built on @agent-custody/receipts",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/ch4r10t33r/agent-custody.git",
+    "directory": "packages/state"
+  },
+  "publishConfig": {
+    "access": "public"
+  },
+  "type": "module",
+  "exports": {
+    ".": {
+      "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
+      "default": "./dist/index.js"
+    }
+  },
+  "files": [
+    "dist"
+  ],
+  "scripts": {
+    "build": "tsc -p tsconfig.build.json",
+    "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",
+    "test": "vitest run"
+  },
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">=22"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "@agent-custody/receipts": "0.1.0"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@types/node": "^26.4.1",
+    "typescript": "^7.0.2",
+    "vitest": "^5.0.0"
+  }
+}