# Draft evidence record: Keep memory useful without losing the rules

DRAFT TEMPLATE. Confirm any prefilled proposed requirements against your actual task. Replace blank fields with evidence from your authorized task. Unknown is the default, not success.

## Task

[Fill in]

## Scope and version

[Fill in]

## Current authorization

[Fill in]

## Method reference

- guide_id: useful-memory
- build_revision: release-2026-11-11-r12
- source_sha256: 0e3129bf46697cab6ebc0d6e435e7565e9f736d8ee67569487eb0dc11183e573

Record template build revision: release-2026-11-11-r12
Task/artifact version belongs in scope_and_version.
Recommendation: investigate

## Required checks

### Check 1

- Requirement: Proposed requirement to confirm for your task: A fresh reader can continue without rediscovering critical decisions.
- Observed evidence: [Fill in]
- Evidence reference: [Fill in]
- Status (pass / fail / unavailable): unavailable

### Check 2

- Requirement: Proposed requirement to confirm for your task: Current permissions and unresolved outcomes survive the handoff.
- Observed evidence: [Fill in]
- Evidence reference: [Fill in]
- Status (pass / fail / unavailable): unavailable

### Check 3

- Requirement: Proposed requirement to confirm for your task: The cited original is accessible and matches the expected version.
- Observed evidence: [Fill in]
- Evidence reference: [Fill in]
- Status (pass / fail / unavailable): unavailable

## Decision (accept / reject / unknown)

unknown

## Reason

Draft only. Confirm the proposed requirements against the actual task; no checks have evidence yet.

## Next authorized action

[Fill in]

## Stop or recovery

[Fill in]

## Limits

- Draft prefilled from a proposed worksheet. Confirm requirements against the actual task and its governing instructions.
- No checks have been executed; observations and evidence references are blank.
- No task-specific authorization, action or performance result is established.

Rule: A demonstrated required failure means reject. With no demonstrated failure, any unavailable required check means unknown. Accept requires positive evidence for every required check. This record never grants permission to act.

## Use this draft

Read the [matching guide](guide.md), including its proposed evidence plan and examples of insufficient proof. Planning notes are not observations. Before entering real observations, change record_type to task_record in the JSON version and replace draft limitations with what remains unknown. Keep the method reference tied to the version you actually used. No permission is created by filling this file.

Optional local check from the reading-pack root: `python3 tools/check_record.py guides/useful-memory/record-template.json --guide guides/useful-memory/guide.json --manifest reading-pack-manifest.json`

A method match is not a completed task or proof of authorization.