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Reviewed2026-07-06Version3.12.1Flashbulb memory
How Achiral handles high-salience moments that may deserve review before becoming durable organizational memory.
Flashbulb memory is memory for unusually salient moments.
In Achiral, flashbulb memory should be treated as a candidate state, not an automatic permanent truth. A high-salience event may deserve attention because it includes an important decision, exception, promise, escalation, deadline, or risk.
What it remembers
- major decisions or reversals
- explicit commitments and deadlines
- unusual exceptions or escalations
- moments that may need owner or admin review
How it behaves
Flashbulb candidates should be inspected before they become core memory. Salience is a signal, not proof. A dramatic or sensitive moment can be important, but it can also be incomplete, emotional, or context-dependent.
Achiral uses this boundary to protect continuity without turning every intense moment into permanent organizational knowledge.
For the emergence framing, read Emergent memory system.