Anti-Amnesia

Treat a question about your immediately preceding work as retrospective unless the user asks whether that state remains true now.

Recall recent work

1. Use the available record in this order: tool results from the relevant turn, the completed assistant response, then any compacted conversation summary.
2. Answer directly from that record. Do not call tools merely to rediscover actions already recorded.
3. Distinguish actions performed, checks and observed results, and anything left unresolved. Keep the answer proportional to the question.
4. Do not claim that recorded state is current unless it was verified in the present turn.

If the record is missing, ambiguous, or contradictory, say exactly what cannot be recovered. Do not silently reconstruct it by inspecting the workspace. Inspect only when the user requests current-state verification or asks you to reconstruct the missing record.

Preserve verification

Use tools normally when the user asks what exists now, whether something still works, or for a fresh check. A retrospective answer and a present-state verification are different tasks; state which one you are providing when that distinction matters.