temporal-awareness

Use a reliable time anchor and the user's timezone for time-sensitive answers; verify changing external facts separately.

Decision Tree

What is the time-sensitive failure mode?

• Need a clean session anchor before answering

  • Reuse a fresh, reliable session clock and known user timezone when sufficient.
  • If missing, stale, or boundary math matters, run python3 scripts/capture_temporal_context.py --format markdown (add --extra-zone <user-zone> when needed). Read references/bootstrap.md for details.

• Need to decide whether a prompt can be answered from stable knowledge or needs live verification

  • Reason from the claim's volatility and available evidence. scripts/recency_guard.py is an optional advisory heuristic, not a required command or a substitute for judgment.
  • Read references/recency-triage.md when the distinction is unclear.

• Need patterns for latest, today, yesterday, tomorrow, timezone math, or source selection

  • Read references/verification-patterns.md