Supersede a belief
Graph
Supersede a belief
Record that a belief was superseded (old -> superseded_by -> new).
POST
Supersede a belief
Record that a belief was superseded (
old -> superseded_by -> new).
The successor is either a NEW node created from content (Voyage-embedded)
or an already-owned node named by nodeId. Authority transfers per the
internal adaptive semantics: the successor inherits max(old, new) and the
superseded node decays by 1 - confidence. Both nodes must be owned by the
effective subject; anything else is 404. This is the default “wrong belief”
verb (forget = erasure only).
Authorization
This route requires thegraph:write scope. A key carrying memory:forget or write also qualifies.
A missing or invalid credential returns 401 authentication_error. A valid credential without the scope returns 403 permission_denied, and the problem body names the exact scope required.
Headers
These are request conventions the contract does not declare as parameters, so they do not appear in the schema tables below.Success responses
Errors
Beyond the shared statuses, this route can answer with
idempotency_in_flight, idempotency_key_reuse. Every problem body names its own code, and the type URI always resolves to the matching page.
Every error is an RFC 9457 application/problem+json body carrying a stable code, a requestId, and a suggestedAction where Exo has one. See Errors.
Notes
- Exo never overwrites a belief. Supersede keeps the old node, links the new one to it, and transfers authority. The trail is readable afterwards at
GET /v1/graph/nodes/{node_id}/history. - Give it either an existing
nodeIdor newcontent. Withcontenta successor node is created for you andcreatedcomes back true. - This is how you close a contradiction. There is no resolve route: supersede the side that lost.
Authorizations
An Exo API key (exo_...) sent as the X-Exo-API-Key header.
Path Parameters
The knowledge-graph node id.
Body
application/json
Body for POST /v1/graph/nodes/{id}/supersede.
Exactly one of content (create a successor node from text) or nodeId
(link an already-owned node as the successor) must be set. confidence in
[0,1] drives the authority transfer (the superseded belief decays by
1 - confidence; default 1.0 fully demotes it, matching the internal
adaptive supersession semantics).