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02 · THE MEMORY LAYER

The log.

wiki/log.md

A dated diary of every ingest. Newest at top, append-only, never rewritten. The log is what makes the wiki honest: it tells you which source produced which page, when, and what conflicts it raised.

append here · newest at top older entries continue below ## 2026-04-26 — ingested raw/postmortems/2026-03-14-checkout.md created: 2026-03-14-checkout · stub→draft: checkout-api · contradictions: 0 ## 2026-04-12 — ingested raw/alerts/checkout-pool-alerts.md updated: checkout-api, connection-pool-exhaustion ## 2026-04-02 — ingested raw/postmortems/2025-11-02-orders.md contradictions: 1 surfaced (root-cause attribution) ## 2026-03-21 — ingested raw/runbooks/checkout-runbook.md created: checkout-api (full draft)

One entry per ingest run. Past entries are never edited — corrections add new corrective entries instead.

What an entry looks like

wiki/log.md — top entryspecimen
## 2026-04-26 — ingested raw/postmortems/2026-03-14-checkout.md

Source: 2026-03-14 checkout latency postmortem (1.2KB markdown).

Pages created:
- wiki/incidents/2026-03-14-checkout.md
- wiki/services/checkout-api.md (stub upgraded to draft)
- wiki/root-causes/connection-pool-exhaustion.md
- wiki/owners/payments-team.md (stub)

Pages updated: wiki/index.md.

Contradictions surfaced: none.

Open questions: action item #3 has no owner; flagged on incident page.

The six fields of every entry

  1. heading — ## YYYY-MM-DD — ingested raw/<path>
  2. source — one line naming the source, its format and rough size.
  3. pages created — bullet list of new wiki pages.
  4. pages updated — bullet list with the change in parentheses, e.g. (stub upgraded to draft).
  5. contradictions — count plus a one-line summary each, or none. Mirrored in index.md.
  6. open questions — anything flagged for follow-up: missing owners, unclear timelines, undated action items.

Rules

  1. One entry per ingest run. Never batched, never silently amended.
  2. Newest at the top. The log reads like a diary, not a changelog.
  3. Append-only. Past entries are never edited or deleted.
  4. If a prior ingest got something wrong, write a new corrective entry. Don't rewrite history.
  5. Contradictions surfaced today must also appear in index.md under Open contradictions.