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Current information is the register of values that change: prices, form links, payment details, opening hours. It is the sixth category on the Brain page.
The Brain page with the Current Information card

Current information is a category on the Brain page.

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Why it is separate

The other five categories are part of a Brain version. A version is frozen when you publish it, so a change there needs a new draft, a review, and a publish. A fact is not part of a version. A change to a fact takes effect on the next reply. There is no review state, and there is no publish step.
A price change should not need a compile. Your prices change more often than your answers do, and freezing them inside a published version would make every price change a release.

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What a fact holds

The key cannot hold spaces. Kai lowercases it and replaces the rest.

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How an answer uses a fact

An answer never carries the value. It carries a token:
Kai fills the token in after it writes the reply, not while it writes it. This matters for two types:
  • A Link and an IBAN never enter the prompt at all. Kai only ever sees the token, and the runtime substitutes the exact value.
  • A Price and a Text fact are shown to Kai as live data, so Kai can reason with the number, and the value is still substituted exactly.
An IBAN with one wrong digit sends a customer’s money to a stranger. A URL with one wrong character returns a 404. Copying is not a task worth trusting to a model when replacement is exact.
If a token names a fact that does not exist, the reply is downgraded to a draft. A customer must never receive a raw token.

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Placeholders waiting for a name

Kai replaces every phone number, email address, link and payment reference with a placeholder before any model reads your history. A placeholder looks like [URL_13] or [IBAN_2]. When the compiler produced an answer that mentions one, the answer cannot be sent until you say what the placeholder is. The Brain page counts these as to name, and Current Information lists them under Placeholders from your history.
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Read the list

Each row shows the placeholder, how many answers mention it, and an excerpt of one of them, so you can see what the value was used for.
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Let Kai propose the names

Select Suggest names. Kai reads where each placeholder appears and proposes a name, a description and a type. Where the import still holds the original value on this machine, Kai fills that in too. Nothing is saved yet.
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Confirm each one

Select Name this on a row. Check every field, correct the value, and select Save.
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Read the result

Kai states how many mentions it rewrote across the Brain. Every answer that used the placeholder now uses the fact.
Naming a placeholder rewrites the Brain, so it needs an editable draft. On a published version the list is read-only. Select Edit as a new draft first.

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How this meets the groundedness rule

Kai checks its own output before it sends. A number in a reply must appear in one of three places:
  1. a fact in current information;
  2. an answer that is not marked as changing over time;
  3. the conversation itself, because a customer’s own number is safe to repeat.
If a number appears in none of them, Kai does not send the reply. It writes a draft for a human instead. The check is on the finished text, not on the prompt. The check treats a number as a price when it is 100 or larger, or when a currency or percent marker stands next to it. Small numbers such as a grade level or a step number are not checked.
A reply that quotes a price and is always downgraded to a draft usually means the price is written inside an answer as plain text. Move it to a fact, and put the token in the answer.

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When to use a fact instead of an answer

Use a fact when:
  • the value changes on its own schedule: a price, a discount, an instalment count;
  • the value must be exact: an IBAN, a link, a reference number;
  • the value appears in more than one answer, and all of them must agree.
Keep it in the answer when:
  • the number is part of the explanation and never changes, for example how many coaching sessions a week the programme has;
  • the number belongs to one answer only and is not money.

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Maintaining the register

  • Edit changes the value everywhere it is used, on the next reply.
  • Delete removes the fact. Any answer that still names it will be downgraded to a draft, so search the Answer Library first.
  • The list is grouped by type, so twenty facts read as four short lists.

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Next

The knowledge base

The other five categories, and what a review state means.

Review and publish

What publishing freezes, and what it does not.