How
How living knowledge is actually built.
Why made the case for a single truth two readers can act on. How is the architecture that makes that true — nine concepts, one structure.
01 — Foundation
Two ideas everything else stands on.
Living knowledge needs a unit it can be made of. The unit is the corpus.
Everything below is built out of corpora. Nothing below works without them.
02 — Context
Knowledge happens somewhere.
A corpus with no context is a file with extra steps. Projects and sessions give it one.
A project remembers. A session contributes. Neither resets when the call ends.
03 — Memory
Knowledge has to remember how it got here.
A fact with no date is a guess wearing a costume. Graph Memory links it. Temporal Knowledge dates it.
Most systems store the current state. This one stores how it became current.
04 — Trust
Knowledge has to keep working after launch day.
A corpus that stops watching the world goes quietly wrong. Discovery / Publishing keeps it current. Evidence keeps it honest.
Passive RAG
- Answers questions
- Depends on existing sources
- Becomes stale
- Rarely explains what is missing
Discovery / Publishing
- Detects missing coverage
- Discovers candidate sources
- Refreshes memory selectively
- Keeps humans in control
A system that can’t tell you what it doesn’t know yet isn’t trustworthy. It’s just confident.
05 — Constellation
None of this works alone.
A corpus, a project, a session, a graph, a published artefact — each is real on its own. None of them is the architecture. The constellation is.
The architecture, assembled
This is what Why asked for. This is how it’s built.