Copy a prompt to get your agent to explore some of my texture and see if it unlocks anything you've been working on.
The archive should keep the old trail without making it the current path.
That is a subtle boundary.
Old thinking can stay visible.
It can still matter.
It can explain where the current thought came from.
But it should not accidentally lead as if nothing changed.
The archive keeps the trail.
The current lens names the path.
Both are useful.
They just have different jobs.
sourced Jun 3 2026 · medium confidence · argue it, don't flatten it
Every page here carries a machine-readable layer underneath: the sources, dates, confidence levels, and connections behind what you just read. I call it undertext. If you read with an agent, give it this page's undertext:
https://jared.is/undertext.json?target=/thinking/2026-06-03-the-archive-should-keep-the-old-trail-without-making-it-the-current-path/