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Supporting subsystem, Memory

AI that remembers the work, not just the last prompt.

Resume with the decisions, context, and responsibilities intact.

Corvair Memory supports the Knowledge Substrate by preserving the chronology of a project, what was said, decided, changed, assigned, and produced, then building the working context each person or agent needs. A project can pause, move to another channel, bring in a specialist, and resume without treating every session as day one.

Continuousacross sessions and channels
Attributedevery event retains its speaker and time
Governedredaction, erasure, export, and audit controls
person Human smart_toy Agent Decision Pivot Deliverable Current project digest hub Knowledge One record, different interfaces, no lost handoff
Project continuity

The moments that make the next decision possible.

Messages remain part of the chronology, but Memory is designed to recover the state of the work, not merely replay a transcript.

Decisions

What was decided, by whom, and in which round or session it was settled.

Actions

Owners, current status, and whether the work was ever closed out.

Pivots

What changed, and which earlier direction the change superseded.

Exclusions

The boundaries a project has deliberately set, so they are not quietly re-crossed.

Deliverables

What the work produced, and the events that led to the artefact.

Grounding

The Knowledge snapshot and premises used when an answer shaped the work.

From event to context

Capture once. Reconstruct the right context whenever work resumes.

The chronological record stays canonical. Working context is derived from it and can be rebuilt, which is what keeps continuity explainable.

Capture

Each meaningful interaction becomes a typed, chronological event with its speaker and time.

Organise

Conversation state and a project digest are derived from that record.

Resume

The next session receives recent context, decisions, open actions, exclusions, and project state.

Record again

New work extends the same record. It does not overwrite the past.

Project event recordCanonical chronology
Session resumed

The project digest and recent context were restored.

Knowledge seeded

The recorded policy snapshot supplied the premises for this round.

Decision recorded

Proceed with the revised control design after compliance review.

Action assigned

The risk lead will confirm the evidence owner before Friday.

Deliverable produced

The control rationale was written up and saved to the project.

An illustrative project. The record on the left is what actually happened, in order. The digest on the right is derived from it, which means it can always be rebuilt and explained.

One project, many participants

People and agents can hand work to one another without dropping the thread.

A project rarely stays with one person, in one session, in one place. Memory is designed so that moving the work does not mean losing it.

A roster of participants

The people and agents taking part in the project are recorded, not assumed.

Who is active, and allowed

Composition modes and capabilities describe which agents are working and what each one may do.

Per-participant perspectives

A participant can be given only the context their part of the work requires.

Explicit pauses and resumes

Session markers record where the work stopped, so the next round knows where to pick it up.

Movement between channels

The same project digest can follow a case across chat, voice, email, and other channels that an application connects.

Carried by your application

Corvair supports continuity across those channels. The application that integrates them still owns the channel itself.

Two different jobs

A decision record and a trusted domain fact should not be stored as though they are the same thing.

Memory and Knowledge have different units, different access patterns, and different lifecycles. Keeping them apart is what lets a project move quickly without weakening the governance promise.

Memory
Knowledge
Chronological events
Governed premises and relationships
Captures quickly
Admits deliberately
Optimised for recent project continuity
Optimised for durable, sourced truth
Compacts and derives working context
Decays, supersedes, retracts, and snapshots
Speaker and time are central
Source, veracity, provenance, and scope are central
Memory The record of the work Events, decisions, actions Knowledge Substrate The governed institutional truth Sourced, scored, warranted Knowledge seeds Memory The snapshot used is recorded, so the context stays replayable later Selected artefacts are proposed for Knowledge Promotion is deliberate and governed. Nothing is admitted simply because it was said.
  1. Knowledge seeds MemoryFrom the substrate into the projectThe snapshot used is recorded, so the context stays replayable later.
  2. MemoryThe record of the workEvents, decisions, and actions, in the order they happened.
  3. Proposed for KnowledgeBack into the substrate, deliberatelyPromotion is governed. Nothing is admitted simply because it was said.

Two controlled crossings, in plain language. Knowledge can seed Memory when a project resumes, and the snapshot it used is recorded. Selected decisions or artefacts can be proposed for Knowledge, where they face the same admission rules as any other source.

Context does not change under your feet. When a project is grounded, the Knowledge state it used is pinned and recorded. If the institution's knowledge later moves on, re-grounding is an explicit step, so a live conversation is never silently rewritten beneath the people relying on it.
Governed by design

Memory remains useful without becoming an uncontrolled copy of everything.

Lifecycle and audience controls sit on the data path. They shape what can be retained, viewed, exported, erased, or used to ground later work.

Redaction policies

Different audiences receive purpose-specific views, from an owner's full record to shared and audit-oriented exports.

Data erasure

Erasure is previewed before it is applied and leaves an audit record. Linked Knowledge content is retracted through the cross-boundary workflow.

Legal holds

Protected records can be tokenised and kept under elevated access while a hold is in force.

Export controls

Histories, summaries, actions, and interaction records can be exported through policy-aware paths, and artefacts can be revoked.

Tenant and project isolation

Identity and access are resolved from the platform principal and the project binding, not supplied by the calling client.

Private usage reporting

Usage reporting is designed to carry no customer identity, personal data, or content.

Destructive actions preview before they apply. You see what an erasure or a revocation would affect before anything is committed.
The same continuity for people and agents

A handoff does not become a loss of context.

Humans working in the browser workbench, and in future the mobile applications, resume from the same project record that agents reach through the governed API and MCP. Memory does not create a privileged agent-only view of the work.

Equivalent authority produces equivalent access to decisions, actions, grounding references, and evidence. The interface differs. The governed record does not. The Knowledge Substrate remains the authority both sides are grounded in.

Where it changes the experience

Useful wherever work unfolds over time.

Long-running work

Resume after days or weeks

Advisory, case, and research work restarts with the current decisions and open actions intact, rather than with a summary of a summary.

Multi-agent analysis

Hand off without losing the thread

Specialist agents receive the perspective their part of the work needs, without sharing every internal detail of the project.

Integrated channels

Continue one account or case

An application can carry a single project digest across the chat, voice, email, and messaging channels it has connected.

Regulated decisions

Trace what grounded the context

Record which Knowledge snapshot supplied the premises that shaped the context behind a decision, and reopen it later.

Give every project a memory it can explain.

Corvair Memory lets people and agents continue the same governed body of work across time. It supports the Knowledge Substrate by preserving context, while Vault contributes personal knowledge under the user's control.