{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "recordId": "ai-storage-evidence-2026-10-27",
  "reviewedOn": "2026-10-27",
  "operator": "DZG Studio LLC / Mint team",
  "independent": false,
  "evidence": [
    {
      "kind": "owner-operated-real-conversation-case",
      "observedOn": "2026-10-15",
      "recordUrl": "https://mintstorage.app/research/codex-optimization-case-2026-10-15.json",
      "recordSha256": "c0744644b44f741228d0b9b12168863ea7049b6e3b65fabe0a54ef26086ac921",
      "scope": "8 eligible archived conversation copies; Direct 1.0.99; 35.1% allocated reduction including recovery/profile files",
      "limits": [
        "Selected corpus on one owner Mac, not representative of all users",
        "Continuation request captured before model inference",
        "No independent customer or 24-hour regrowth result"
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "external-hands-on-review",
      "publishedOn": "2026-10-12",
      "url": "https://thesweetbits.com/tools/mint-review/",
      "testedVersion": "Direct 1.0.92 (107)",
      "scope": "General optimization, folder organization and agent integration experience",
      "limits": [
        "Not a Codex continuation or recovery benchmark",
        "Historical commercial descriptions are not current terms"
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "owner-operated-protocol-fixtures",
      "observedAt": "2026-10-27T08:14:03.512632+00:00",
      "result": "passed",
      "execution": "Actual MCP protocol with an injected native responder; no real user-file cleanup",
      "checked": [
        "Raw-path and malformed execution requests rejected before native dispatch",
        "Only Trash action accepted; permanent action rejected",
        "Selected plan/item IDs and reason preserved across native bridge",
        "Review-only scan eligibility and native failure details preserved",
        "Journal batch IDs and processed/trashed/unknown physically reclaimed byte fields preserved"
      ],
      "notChecked": [
        "Real native scan, cleanup, Trash or filesystem mutation",
        "Human approval UI in any external agent",
        "Production plan-store claim concurrency and expiry execution",
        "Savings, conversation recovery or independent customer outcomes"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "retentionComparison": {
    "checkedOn": "2026-10-27",
    "scope": "Source-claim comparison, not a new product benchmark.",
    "mint": "The 1.0.99 image-preservation case does not validate the later 1.1.0 compressed-file path. Decoded content preservation and exact byte reconstruction are different claims.",
    "coldArchive": "Sessionfold author reports exact reconstruction; removing the source can prevent immediate Codex use and sidebar reintegration remains unvalidated.",
    "sources": [
      "https://github.com/shivampkumar/sessionfold",
      "https://github.com/shivampkumar/sessionfold/blob/main/docs/validation.md",
      "https://www.noodlesoft.com/"
    ]
  }
}