---
title: "Memory"
description: "a decision, a preference, a correction or a standing instruction, at strategy or user scope; never a permission"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/memory
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Memory

a decision, a preference, a correction or a standing instruction, at strategy or user scope; never a permission

[figure: Memory is a fact at follows scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | fact |
| scope | follows |
| key | its scope and the moment |
| store | postgres |
| family | harness |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `kind` | `one of a decision \| a preference \| a correction \| a standing instruction` | yes |  |
| `text` | `text` | yes |  |
| `scope` | [Scope](/concepts/scope) | yes |  |
| `ended_by` | `id` | no | a later fact that ends it |



## Routes that use it
- [`/v1/act/remember`](/reference/act/remember) returns it