Cascade repair
thecontinuitylayer.com/glossary/cascade-repairThe definition
Removing or rebuilding every derived memory that depended on an item that was deleted, corrected or migrated, by following its provenance to each descendant. Only as complete as the provenance graph: in one 2026 study, dropping one percent of dependency edges left 17.7% of stale descendants exposed.
The same words the glossary hub and the public data mirror carry; this page is the stable address for the term.
Related terms
- Memory
The store of facts, preferences, and records a system keeps so it doesn’t start from nothing each time. What is stored — distinct from which stored facts are…
- Provenance
The record of where a piece of information came from, when it changed, and whether it can be trusted.
- Derived memory
Anything a system built from a stored item: a summary, a reflection, a plan, a cached tool result, a learned skill, an embedding, a copy in a peer agent.…
Where it shows up on this site
- What is a continuity layer · ReferenceThe definition, in full
- The primer: memory is not continuity · ReferenceSix distinctions, seven contrasts, the five obligations in brief
The working definition of a continuity layer, in full, is at /what-is-a-continuity-layer. Every term, on one page, at /glossary.