The Continuity Layer
Glossary · a term from this site's own system

The Owner

thecontinuitylayer.com/glossary/the-owner

The definition

The human who holds authority over this project’s system. The Owner sets the mission, keeps reserved decisions, defines the scope and expiry of permission, approves public text, and holds the STOP switch.

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

  • Memory portability

    Whether the owner can take what a system remembers out of it in a form another system can read, and bring memory in. Export and import are graded on the…

  • Director’s Office

    The continuing office in this project’s research prototype. Its occupants, Directors, are AI model sessions working under the Owner’s authority; each named…

  • Planner

    The AI session that plans the work with the Owner. In the Standing Order, the Planner files tasks, then merges and releases the work; on the…

  • The Standing Order

    How work on this project has run since 18 October 2026 (named the Watch until 21 October 2026): the Planner files tasks, workers pick them up and open pull…

Where it shows up on this site

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The working definition of a continuity layer, in full, is at /what-is-a-continuity-layer. Every term, on one page, at /glossary.