Canonical · Not-a
Not a vector memory system
Vector memory stores embeddings and returns similar ones. Governed memory routes provisional lessons through human review, holds them until evidence stabilizes, and promotes only what survives. Ubiquity uses retrieval; retrieval is not the governance.
Memory with a promotion gate
The point is not how much an agent can recall. The point is what an agent is permitted to carry forward without re-earning it.
Demand ladder
L1 Pain→L2 Contrast→L3 Category→L4 Primitive→L5 Branded
Adjacent transitions
This is
- Governed memory: provisional lessons routed through review and promoted under evidence.
- A discipline about what may be remembered, by whom, and for which session.
This is not
- A vector database.
- A RAG layer.
- A long-term memory plugin.
Frequently asked
- Do you use embeddings or retrieval?
- Yes — retrieval is one mechanism inside the substrate. The substrate decides what is allowed to be retrievable in the first place.