Trust: who vouched for what
Every item in memo-mcp carries a trust level. It answers one question: who has vouched for this?
| Level | Meaning | How something gets it |
|---|---|---|
| Agent | Claude saved it. It may well be right, but no person has checked it. | Anything Claude saves |
| User | A person saved it or confirmed it. | Anything you save from the terminal, or Claude’s work you approve |
| Curated | Checked and approved as a reference source. | Only by a person, deliberately |
The level appears next to every search result, in the browser view and in what Claude tells you.
Why Claude cannot raise trust by itself
If an assistant could mark its own notes as verified, the label would mean nothing. A web page with misleading instructions could also persuade it to “verify” something false. So memo-mcp has one firm rule: only a person can raise trust.
Claude can ask. When it believes a note deserves more trust, it requests a promotion, and one of two things happens:
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Your app shows a dialog. It contains the passage, where it came from and the level requested. Nothing changes unless you press accept.
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Your app cannot show dialogs. Claude gives you a short command to run yourself, for example:
memo-mcp trust promote memo://doc/01a1... --to user
Every change of trust is recorded: who made it, when and why.
Warning. Some setups can be configured to accept every dialog automatically. If you do that, the trust labels lose their meaning. Treat everything as agent level.
Lowering trust
If something you trusted turns out to be wrong, lower it:
memo-mcp trust demote memo://doc/01a1... --to agent
How trust affects answers
Trust does not change how relevant a result is. A note Claude saved can still be the best match. What trust changes:
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You can see it. Every answer shows whether it rests on something a person checked, or only on Claude’s own notes.
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You can require it. Ask Claude to use only items at or above a level:
Answer only from items a person has checked.
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It settles ties. When two facts disagree, the one with higher trust is preferred, then the newer one.