{"slug":"spine/memory-continuity","title":"21 · Memory & Continuity","section":"spine","sectionLabel":"Spine","status":"unclassified","type":"document","path":"spine/memory-continuity.mdx","bytes":3207,"description":"Three domains: Organizational Memory (THE memory) → Personal Contextual → AI Continuity. Ownership, privacy, durability, retrieval, promotion, rehydration, and G-10.","updated":null,"source":"integratewise/Integratewise-docs-wiki","content":"\n## Three Domains, One Invariant\n\n```text\nOrganizational Memory        THE memory        (Business Context Spine)\n        │\n        │  shared business reality\n        │\n ┌──────┴──────┐\n ▼             ▼\nPersonal       AI\nContextual     Continuity\nMemory         Memory\n(serves BC)    (serves BC)\n```\n\n\n**Organizational Memory is THE memory.** Personal Contextual Memory and AI Continuity Memory are working continuities that **serve** Business Context — they are not equal peers.\n\n\n```text\nUser thought ≠ AI inference ≠ Organizational truth\n```\n\n## Ownership & Boundaries\n\n| Domain | Owner | Durable? | Becomes Organizational truth when… | Privacy |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| **Organizational Memory** | Organization / tenant | ✅ | Governed promotion → verify → reconcile → Spine | Tenant-isolated, projection-governed |\n| **Personal Contextual Memory** | Human | Per-user working continuity | Deliberately shared and governed — not silent promotion | Private to user unless shared |\n| **AI Continuity Memory** | AI Workbench / Twin / agent | Working continuity (see G-10) | Promotion via Triage / Governance / governed write — never by inference alone | Tenant- and Work-scoped, auditable |\n\n## Lifecycle\n\n* **Retrieval** — rehydration from Spine + working memory scoped to Work.\n* **Promotion** — working items (personal notes, AI inferences) become organizational memory only through explicit governed path; see [Ingestion & Normalization](/spine/ingestion-normalization-pipeline) and [Verification & Reconciliation](/closure/verification-reconciliation).\n* **Rehydration** — after Spine update, projections invalidate and both Human Workbench and AI Workbench refresh from new truth.\n* **Durability** — organizational memory is durable across sessions, devices, and agents; working memories are scoped to continuity needs, not indefinite lakes.\n\n## G-10: AI Continuity Persistence\n\n\n**G-10:** *AI Continuity Memory has a defined semantic scope but its persistent backing substrate remains an architecture decision.*\n\nThis is the explicit gap register entry: what AI Continuity *means* is canonical; *where/how it is persisted* (store, cache vs substrate, lifecycle) is still a decision. The invariant is: whatever the substrate, it **serves** Organizational Memory, never replaces it.\n\n\n## Where to Go Next\n\n<CardGroup cols={2}>\n  \n    How memory updates are tied to verified execution, not to AI output.\n  \n  \n    How working memory contributes to the Active Context Bundle.\n  \n  \n    Shared context, separate continuity — in the human experience.\n  \n</CardGroup>\n"}