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 # M5a design: local memory
 
-Status: draft for the owner's review, 2026-09-24, revised the same day: memory writes need no
-approval (P21, proposed). It rests on the brief as changed by P17 to P20 (applied 2026-09-24,
+Status: approved by the owner, 2026-09-24, with P21 applied to the brief: memory writes need no
+approval. It rests on the brief as changed by P17 to P20 (applied 2026-09-24,
 `docs/decisions.md`) and P21: memory is three files read into the baseline, edited by the agent
 through a `memory` tool without questions, as Hermes does; a new role, `memoryd`, owns the files and a full-text index; and
 M5 is split into M5a (this), M5b (Honcho) and M5c (the scheduler). Owner's decisions of