diff --git a/policy/memory-action.go b/policy/memory-action.go
index ac1878c..be47d46 100644
--- a/policy/memory-action.go
+++ b/policy/memory-action.go
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ const (
 	// MemorySearchAction - search (corpus-grep) the objects in a cortex.
 	MemorySearchAction MemoryAction = "memory:Search"
 
+	// MemoryGetObjectBioAction - read an object's biography from a cortex:
+	// who authored each version of it, when, from which agent and session,
+	// and what that version carries. Distinct from reading the object, which
+	// returns the bytes and says nothing about who put them there.
+	MemoryGetObjectBioAction MemoryAction = "memory:GetObjectBio"
+
 	// AllMemoryActions - all AIStor Memory API actions.
 	AllMemoryActions MemoryAction = "memory:*"
 )
@@ -84,6 +90,7 @@ var SupportedMemoryActions = map[MemoryAction]struct{}{
 	MemoryDeleteAgentAction:  {},
 	MemoryListAgentsAction:   {},
 	MemorySearchAction:       {},
+	MemoryGetObjectBioAction: {},
 	AllMemoryActions:         {},
 }
 
diff --git a/policy/memory-action_test.go b/policy/memory-action_test.go
index 5135219..a41c641 100644
--- a/policy/memory-action_test.go
+++ b/policy/memory-action_test.go
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ func TestMemoryActionIsValid(t *testing.T) {
 		{MemoryDeleteAgentAction, true},
 		{MemoryListAgentsAction, true},
 		{MemorySearchAction, true},
+		{MemoryGetObjectBioAction, true},
 		{AllMemoryActions, true},
 		{MemoryAction("memory:FooBar"), false},
 		{MemoryAction("s3tables:CreateTable"), false},