The single-user notifications.md mechanism (a file in data/) died in the multi-user move: assistant's prompt still pointed at it, but nothing read it. Replace it with a memory note: - event-triage injects user-memory/notifications.md verbatim on every pass and treats it as authoritative over its default heuristics - a shared common/notifications.md fragment, included by assistant, kid and project-coordinator, tells the chat agents to record preference requests there: one dated rule per bullet under a source heading or General, asking for the source when ambiguous - docs/system-agents.md explains the steering to users