A citable ContextWeaver record.

Canonical definition

ContextWeaver is a vendor-neutral context infrastructure and governance architecture for binding facts, sources, identities, time, causal relationships, authority, policy, jurisdiction, confidentiality, risk, evidence quality, permitted operations and release conditions to AI-assisted or autonomous system activity.

Reference mechanism

1. A proposed operation is assigned a context envelope.
2. The envelope records purpose, inputs, source references, freshness, identity, authority, policy, jurisdiction, confidentiality, evidence state, risk class and requested output.
3. A context engine identifies missing, stale or conflicting context and constructs semantic, temporal, causal and authority relationships.
4. Authorised models, agents, rules engines or human reviewers may assess the proposed operation.
5. Disagreement, confidence, evidence quality and unresolved conflicts are recorded rather than silently collapsed.
6. A policy decision issues an allow, constrain, defer or deny result, including any mandatory escalation.
7. Permitted outputs are bound to a release profile identifying audience, reliance, confidentiality, licence, expiry, revocation and custody requirements.
8. Final reliance, publication, licensing or production release remains subject to the designated human or organisational authority.

Context depth

The framework defines ten context depth levels, from raw source observations at L0 to institutional memory and recursive governance at L9. The levels provide a progressive method for determining whether information is not only relevant but operationally and legally usable.

System distinction

ContextWeaver is distinguished from a conventional prompt, memory store or retrieval pipeline by its explicit representation of authority, policy, evidence, disagreement, permitted operation and release conditions.