Continuity Framework

The definition

This site's framework (v2.0, November 2026) for judging whether a system has continuity: five obligations a continuity layer owes the people and systems that depend on it (carry, govern, evolve, prove, forget), fifteen questions to ask of any system, a lifecycle for one carried fact, and an erasure ladder. Our proposal, not an industry standard.

The same words the glossary hub and the public data mirror carry; this page is the stable address for the term.

Related terms

• Continuity layer

  A continuity layer is the part of an AI system that carries forward governed state across sessions, tools, models, and hosts: what is currently true, what…

• Erasure

  Authorized deletion of stored memory: honoring a deletion request, making sure the removed fact stops influencing answers, and being able to show it is gone.…

• Erasure ladder

  This site's ordering of the twelve operations the word “forget” is used for, from correcting a wrong record to verifying that a deleted one no longer shapes…

Where it shows up on this site

• The Continuity Framework · ReferenceFive obligations (carry, govern, evolve, prove, forget), fifteen questions, the lifecycle of one fact