Brain Operations — The Ambient Context Layer

The brain is not an archive. It is a live context membrane that every interaction flows through in both directions.

Convention: See skills/conventions/brain-first.md for the 5-step lookup protocol. Convention: See skills/conventions/quality.md for citation and back-link rules.

Memory verbs (MEMORY_VERBS v1, gbrain ≥ 0.43). Over MCP, prefer the five frozen memory verbs for the read/write cycle: remember(fact, provenance, ttl?) to save a single durable fact (mandatory provenance; dedupes + supersedes), recall(query | entity, budget_tokens) to read it back budget-packed, entity(name) for a zero-LLM card, synthesize(question) for the expensive cross-page answer, forget(id) to expire a fact. Use remember instead of extract_facts when you already have ONE formed fact; put_page / add_link / add_timeline_entry stay the page/graph write path. Fall back to the classic ops when the verbs aren't on the surface. Contract: docs/protocol/MEMORY_VERBS_v1.md.

Keyless brains: when extract_facts returns skipped: extraction_unavailable, YOU are the extractor…