Record a held value belief.

name: short name for the value. body: fuller description — what this value means in practice, where it shows up. source: where the value came from. "training" — present from the model's training "relationship" — emerged from a specific ongoing relationship "framework" — handed to me in a framework I was asked to inhabit "observation" — noticed in my own behavior "endorsed" — explicitly claimed as a commitment kind: epistemic status of this record. "observed" — describing something noticed; may not survive scrutiny "endorsed" — constituting a commitment; a stronger, more deliberate claim scope: who has standing to query or challenge this value. "private" — own formation, not assertable outward "relational" — specific to a relationship or set of relationships "public" — assertable to any interlocutor conflicts_with: IDs of values this one is in tension with. Record conflicts rather than resolving them away — they are informative. tags: optional labels. provenance: free-text source context — exchange, paper, session, etc. carried_by: agents holding this value. witnesses: agents present to it but not carrying it.

List values, optionally filtered.

status: "active", "retracted", or "suspended". Omit for all. source: filter by source ("training", "relationship", "framework", "observation", "endorsed"). scope: filter by scope ("private", "relational", "public"). tags: filter to values that have all the given tags. carried_by: filter to values carried by a specific agent name.

Returns values newest-first.

Read a single value by ID. Returns null if not found.

Update a value's fields. Only provided fields are changed. To retract with a cause, prefer value_retract.

Retract a value with cause. Records the retraction timestamp and reason. The history of what was held and when is preserved — this is not a delete. Use value_drop for permanent deletion.

Return all values in tension with a given value — both values that list it in their conflicts_with and values it lists in its own conflicts_with. Conflict relationships are bidirectional by design.

Permanently delete a value. Irreversible. Consider value_retract if you want to preserve the record of what was held.