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  "abstract": "A first-person systems thesis connecting constrained human working context, context reinstatement, sparse machine computation, and durable reconstructable agent context into a governed architecture for cognitive re-entry.",
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      "text": "Immediately usable human working context is constrained; the exact mechanism and limit depend on task and theory."
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      "text": "During development of this Work, the owner correctly remembered DeepSeek Harness after the assistant retrieved the wrong DeepSeek repository; durable SharePlane and GitHub evidence reconstructed the missing context and corrected the reasoning state."
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      "text": "For serious human-machine work, useful continuity depends less on opaque model memory than on governed persistence of identity, evidence, relationships, authority, state, freshness, and re-entry cues."
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