Provenance Clarity
Every fact in the system is traceable to its author, source, and reasoning. The cure for Ghost Knowledge.
Provenance Clarity means you can point to any piece of knowledge in the system and answer three questions: Who put this here? When? Why? This is the antidote to Ghost Knowledge. When an agent stores a fact, Provenance Clarity requires that the fact be tagged with its source (which agent or human), its timestamp, and the reasoning or evidence behind it. This transforms the memory system from a pile of assertions into a traceable knowledge graph where every node has a history.
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Context Anxiety
The dread of re-explaining everything every session because the system has no persistent memory.
Ghost Knowledge
Facts that exist in the system but can't be traced to an author or source.
Context Rot
Deterioration of an agent's understanding over time due to limited memory and compaction.
State Loss
Failure to maintain awareness of prior actions.
Context Continuity
Seamless persistence of knowledge across sessions — the user never re-explains. The cure for Context Anxiety.
Memory Fidelity
The accuracy and completeness of what a system retains over time. The opposite of Context Rot.
Recall Precision
The system retrieves exactly the right context at the right time — no noise, no gaps.
State Awareness
The system's ability to maintain and use awareness of prior actions within a session. The opposite of State Loss.