# Remote positioning review receipt — 2026-05-08

## Scope
Remote-facing wording rework for `openclaw-mem`: README hero and first-impression sections, `PRODUCT_POSITIONING.md`, `docs/about.md`, package description, and GitHub About wording.

## Editor lane verdict
- Recommended GitHub About: `Local-first memory governance for OpenClaw: Store / Pack / Observe cited, inspectable, rollbackable agent context.`
- Recommended README lead: local-first memory governance / context supply chain; Store / Pack / Observe; cited, inspectable, rollbackable packs.
- Recommended About addition: the hard part is not storing more memory; it is deciding what memory may become context and proving why.
- Overclaim risks: do not claim to solve hallucination, solve agent memory, provide universal framework support, or beat named memory engines on benchmarks.

## Claude second-brain verdict
- Green to proceed if the same commit fixes the old overclaim tagline, fuzzy `denoised` wording, changelog-like hero-adjacent harness paragraph, OpenClaw-only package description, optional engine wording, and opt-in harness status.
- Preferred positioning: local-first context supply chain / memory governance for AI agents; OpenClaw is first-class, not the only mental model.
- Recommended category contrast: generic memory SDKs / engines store and retrieve; `openclaw-mem` governs what becomes context through trust policy, pack receipts, citation coverage, and rollback posture.

## Resolution applied
- README hero changed away from `Memory your agent can’t lie about` toward local-first context supply chain wording.
- README `What you get` changed to `Why it is different` and leads with governance.
- README harness section shortened; version-specific gateway behavior moved out of the above-the-fold narrative into release-note references.
- PRODUCT_POSITIONING now explicitly says memory governance layer + context supply chain, with a category-level memory SDKs/engines contrast row.
- docs/about now leads with memory governance, adds context-admission framing, reorders shipped capabilities around Store / Pack / Observe, and marks continuity as optional/advanced.
- pyproject package description now matches the new governance positioning.

## Topology/config impact
Unchanged. Docs and package metadata wording only.
