The book’s vocabulary

Memory controls

Pause, inspect, correct, clear — separate operations, not one “forget” button.

From The World That Agrees With You3 sections of the book1 related post

The product features that let you pause recall, pause new capture, inspect retained records, correct one, and clear a defined scope. These are separate operations — “do not remember this conversation” should not require the model to remember and obey that instruction indefinitely.

Asking the model what it remembers is not a complete audit of the application’s storage. Implement the choice before request construction: if recall is paused, those records are not loaded; if writing is paused, writes are rejected at the storage boundary.

Definition from The World That Agrees With You: Understanding and Managing Sycophancy in the Age of AI, by Timothy O’Brien. © 2026 Timothy O’Brien. All rights reserved.

In the book

See also

  • Context isolation
  • Temporary and Incognito
  • Memory curation
  • Correction