Standing Questions · a memory pattern for long-horizon AI agents

Store the questions.
Re‑derive the answers.

store durable questions, not answers; re‑derive against ground truth every session

Agent memory schemes persist answers, and answers rot silently as the repo moves on. Standing Questions inverts the store: a dozen human-owned questions are the durable artifact, every session re-derives the answers against current ground truth, and two small metrics detect when the ritual itself decays.

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