A self-improving memory loop sounds like a clear win until you watch it rewrite something correct with something outdated. The agent remembered a fact. You verified it. A later consolidation pass ran against a stale context window, decided the memory was imprecise, and replaced it with a weaker version. The original was better. You lost ground.
This is the failure mode that belief-aware memory was built to prevent. Not "agents write wrong things" — that's a model quality problem. The specific failure is: the improve loop, running unsupervised, overwrites correct content it should have left alone. A loop that can degrade its own best work is worse than no loop at all.
akm 0.8.0 ships captureMode and beliefState as first-class frontmatter fields on memory assets. Together they tell the consolidation pass what each memory is, what the agent believes about it, and whether it is eligible to be rewritten.
The Two Capture Modes
Every memory asset now carries a captureMode field. It has two values.
