🧠 Pensieve

Status: 🟡 Planning — these materials are not publication-ready.

Pensieve is the first product topic being explored in VICHARA. The current materials frame an idea for connecting user-visible AI-assistant experiences with useful product insight. They are exploration, not verified facts about an existing application or a final implementation design.

📚 Explore the materials

Document	What it is	Editorial status
`Pensieve.md`	Source specification and initial exploration	Source material; claims need verification
`ideation-and-implementation-plan.md`	Problem framing, proposed direction, phases, open questions, and research gates	Planning draft

🛤️ From exploration to a publishable plan

flowchart LR
  S["📄 Read source material"] --> F["🔎 Verify product facts"]
  F --> Q["❓ Resolve open decisions"]
  Q --> A["🏗️ Agree a bounded architecture"]
  A --> P["🧪 Plan one testable implementation slice"]
  P --> E["📝 Review evidence and editorial status"]
  E -. "new unknowns" .-> F

🔐 Before going further

Identify the real product context, owners, and current architecture.
Verify event sources, identity assumptions, data retention, and privacy needs.
Keep prompts, completions, credentials, and sensitive user details out of public content, analytics, logs, and test fixtures.
Treat open decisions in the plan as questions—not settled design choices.

Future research or draft articles can live alongside these documents when needed. Keep them clearly marked until their facts and publication status have been reviewed.