Original work, and referenced work
This project draws a clear line between what it authored — its definition, taxonomy, and frameworks — and the external work it references and summarizes with attribution. Original here means authored by this project, not a claim to have invented the category.
Original to this project
Authored here, dated in the public record, and reused only under the license. A convincing copy has to reproduce these — and each was authored here.
The locked, verbatim definition the whole site cites: what a continuity layer carries, where it sits, and what it is not.
- The eight-axis taxonomyOriginal
The eight axes this project reads the field through — memory, context, state, provenance, agents, workflows, evaluation, infrastructure.
- The seven continuity propertiesOriginal
The seven properties used to evaluate any continuity claim — persistence, update-handling, temporal ordering, disambiguation, reconstruction, model independence, operational usefulness.
The structural distinction between storing the past, retrieving the relevant, tracking what is true, and carrying the living situation forward.
The inclusion criteria, status vocabulary, and the project-level vs agent-level continuity framing the map is built on.
Referenced & summarized
External work, summarized with attribution and caveats. The facts and sources belong to their authors; the value this project adds is the organization, not the raw material.
- Evidence LibraryReferenced
The public papers, repositories, and datasets this project's claims are built on — each with what it supports and what is still open.
- Field Watch profilesReferenced
Neutral, source-backed profiles of individual organizations and systems in the field.
- BenchmarksReferenced
Independent public benchmarks — LOCOMO, LongMemEval, BEAM — summarized for what they do and don't measure.
- Signals from the FieldReferenced
Labs, tools, papers, and language worth tracking — summarized, cited, and classified, never claimed.
Marking original work apart from referenced work keeps ownership honest in both directions: the project never claims facts it only summarized, and a copy of its original frameworks is clearly that. For the reuse terms, see the license.