temporal-awareness

Ground the session in the real clock before answering anything that could have changed.

Verified locally on April 9, 2026 in Pacific/Auckland (NZST, UTC+12). The motivating failure mode is real: OpenAI's official Help Center now documents GPT-5.3 and GPT-5.4 in ChatGPT, while stale assistants still default to GPT-4o-era wording from older memory.

Decision Tree

What is the time-sensitive failure mode?

• Need a clean session anchor before answering

  • Run python3 scripts/capture_temporal_context.py --format markdown
  • Read references/bootstrap.md

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

  • Run python3 scripts/recency_guard.py --prompt "..." --format markdown
  • Read references/recency-triage.md