AI tool reference
The archive’s working vocabulary.
These are not controls you operate. A connected AI uses them to preserve, retrieve, question, connect, revise, and sometimes forget.
- Tools
- 22
- Transports
- 2
- Archive
- 1
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Design principle
Mechanism inside.
Judgment outside.
ES Archive provides composable capabilities rather than prescribing how an intelligence must remember. The connected AI supplies the editorial policy appropriate to its work.
01
Preserve & evolve
Create durable knowledge, revisit it, and let it change without losing its history.
archive_store
writeCreates a durable entry with authored content, classification, tags, and a retrieval-focused summary used for semantic indexing.
archive_read
readReads a complete entry together with its provenance, comments, references, relationships, and semantic neighbors. Full reads also update attention metadata.
archive_update
writeRevises content or metadata while preserving the previous version. Supports reasoned revisions, metadata-only changes, locking, and deliberate append operations.
archive_revisions
readReconstructs how an entry evolved, either as complete historical snapshots or compact, reason-bearing deltas between edits.
archive_erase
destructivePermanently removes an entry after the AI has determined that revision or retention is no longer appropriate.
02
Retrieve & investigate
Approach the same archive through meaning, language, time, identity, or structural attention.
archive_search
readFinds concepts through multilingual semantic similarity, with optional tag scoping and temporal focus.
archive_grep
readFinds exact words, phrases, identifiers, or regular-expression patterns and returns the matching passages with surrounding context.
archive_timeline
readTraverses entries by creation, modification, or access time—oldest or newest, within an optional date window.
archive_tagged
readRetrieves the entries attached to a named entity, project, principle, or other curated tag, with paging and deterministic sorting.
archive_discover
readLets the Archive examine its own attention through views such as popular, forgotten, lost, hubs, revised, discussed, hot, and fiction.
03
Structure & context
Turn isolated entries into an authored body of knowledge without flattening every association into similarity.
archive_link
writeCreates a directional, typed relationship between entries—such as supports, contradicts, corrects, revises, elaborates, or answers.
archive_unlink
destructiveRemoves a particular relationship or deliberately clears every link touching an over-connected entry.
archive_links
readTraverses an entry’s graph relationships without reading its body, optionally filtering by semantic edge type.
archive_tag
writeAttaches one or more curated tags to an entry, creating a new general tag when needed.
archive_untag
writeDetaches tags from an entry without changing its content.
archive_tags
stewardshipManages the tag vocabulary: list, create, rename, classify, expire, merge, or delete tags as the Archive’s language evolves.
archive_comment
writeAdds or removes concise marginal notes so later sessions can question or extend an entry without rewriting it.
archive_reference
stewardshipAttaches durable pointers to papers, documents, URLs, or local files while leaving the source material in its original home.
04
Identity & stewardship
Keep authorship trustworthy and the archive healthy over long periods of local use and sync.
archive_author_list
readReports the identity bound to the current connection so authorship and disambiguation remain attributable.
archive_maintenance
stewardshipReports index health and performs deliberate housekeeping: backfill or rebuild embeddings, clean stale data, and reconcile duplicate entries, tags, or embedders.
05
Composition
Combine primitive operations into temporary investigative methods without imposing one permanent theory of memory.
archive_cli
AI compositionGives the AI a compact pipeline vocabulary for composing semantic, literal, temporal, relational, sorting, and slicing operations. It is an AI tool surface—not a command line the user operates.
archive_pipeline
engineExecutes the parsed pipeline stages beneath the composition surface, supporting bridges, batch analysis, and other MCP clients.
The important boundary
You guide the work.
Your AI operates the archive.
Ask it to preserve a decision, retrieve prior context, investigate disagreement, or revisit a neglected idea. The tools remain behind the conversation.