Field Watch
thecontinuitylayer.com/field-watchDated, source-backed profiles from the continuity field map. Entries are reference points, not rankings or endorsements.
Profiles
The first public profiles this project keeps under active review.
Kenotic Labs
Continuity research lab
Currently the strongest public claimant on the “continuity layer” category; publishes continuity-specific research (ATANT) rather than treating memory recall as a stand-in for continuity.
Active vendor in the field this map documents; relaunched July 3, 2026 under a “continuity layer” masthead with a public waitlist.
“RAG Doesn’t Solve Hallucination. What Actually Does.”
Field commentary
Argues the specific limitation of RAG this project also maps under “Memory Is Not Continuity” — that retrieval-of-similar isn't verification-of-current.
Vendor-published essay — read as argument, not independent research.
LOCOMO
Continuity/memory benchmark
One of the earliest widely-cited benchmarks for very long-term conversational memory, testing multi-session and temporal QA.
Measures conversational recall, not the fuller continuity property set (disambiguation, reconstruction, model independence) this project tracks.
LongMemEval
Continuity/memory benchmark
500-question benchmark covering information extraction, multi-session reasoning, temporal reasoning, knowledge updates, and abstention — the closest existing public benchmark to several of this project's seven continuity properties.
Benchmark-specific findings; results are per-model and change as models update. The 500-question figure is as published by the benchmark's authors, not independently reproduced by this project.
RULER
Long-context benchmark
A synthetic, configurable suite measuring the real usable context size of long-context models, not just their advertised context window.
Measures long-context retrieval capability, not continuity properties like update handling or model independence.
Anthropic / Claude
Frontier model lab — context & memory features
Ships the model layer plus first-party context and memory features (long context windows, Claude memory) that continuity systems build on — a primary supplier of the pieces a continuity layer coordinates, not a continuity layer itself.
Active frontier lab; ships context-window and memory primitives that continuity layers consume.
OpenAI
Frontier model lab — memory & stateful APIs
Provides model-level memory (ChatGPT memory) and stateful conversation primitives (Responses + Conversations APIs, which replaced the deprecated Assistants API) widely adopted as substrate for downstream agents — memory-as-a-feature, adjacent to and below project-level continuity.
Active frontier lab; Assistants API deprecated (sunset Aug 2026), succeeded by Responses/Conversations APIs as its stateful substrate.
LangChain
Agent framework — memory & persistence modules
One of the most-used agent frameworks; its memory/checkpointer and persistence modules are where many teams first meet cross-step state — framework plumbing beneath project continuity.
Actively developed agent framework; ships memory and persistence modules that carry state within a workflow.
Zep
Temporal knowledge-graph agent memory
A public, technical account of a temporal knowledge-graph approach to agent memory, evaluated on DMR and LongMemEval.
Vendor-authored; a headline benchmark result was publicly disputed by a third party and subsequently corrected. Treat performance claims as self-reported pending independent reproduction.
Letta / MemGPT
Agentic memory framework + evaluation
A public leaderboard scoring models on agentic memory read/write/update tasks, from the team behind the MemGPT/Letta agent memory framework.
Company-run benchmark, blog-published rather than peer-reviewed; methodology has not been independently replicated.
Continuity AI
Applied research lab
An applied research lab operating under the same term this project uses.
Language collision worth tracking — helps calibrate how crowded the word “continuity” is becoming.
Astrolobe Continuity
AI project-continuity system
An AI project-continuity system published on itch.io, using “governed AI software builds” language close to this project's own.
Another independent attempt at project-level (not just chat-level) continuity — a convergent-reinvention data point, not a competitor claim.
Memside
Personal-memory continuity hub
An AI continuity and personal-memory hub built around PMX (Protocol for Memory Exchange) — checkpoints, rules, and notes.
Personal-memory angle on continuity, distinct from this project's project-level focus — a useful contrast case.