Three kinds of knowing, kept apart.
Most tools mix what you said, what the model guessed and what you decided into one pile. Then the guess comes back looking like the decision. Kontinuity keeps them separate in the store, not in a setting.
What you said.
You type it, say it, paste it or import it. It lands in memory as something you said. You can see it, and so can the tool that heard it.
On its own it does nothing. It becomes the record only when you confirm it.
What an agent guessed.
Agents work out things you never told them. Guesses are cheap, and useful, so Kontinuity keeps them, in the open and marked.
A guess has not been checked by you. It cannot cross to another agent until it is.
What you confirmed.
Confirm something and it becomes the record. A new agent gets it at the start of a session. Everything else is a hint.
What crosses.
| From one | To another |
|---|---|
| Agent to agent | Only what you confirmed |
| Project to project | Only what you confirmed |
| Machine to machine | Only what you confirmed |
One exception. A baton you hand to one agent is delivered once, to that agent, and never shared.
Changing your mind.
Confirming something new supersedes the old record. The old one is kept as history and stops showing as current.
Nothing is quietly rewritten, and nothing is silently deleted.
Where it is enforced.
We name the place each check runs, so you can look there.
- Who can see a guess
- Cortex. Each tool gets its own role, such as
role_claudeorrole_codex. One tool's unconfirmed guesses are never visible to another. - Who can confirm
- The command-line tool. Sharing, superseding and approving stop with an error unless the command carries the user-confirmed flag. The flag is the agent's statement that it asked you. Until Runtime ships, nothing stops an agent from passing it without asking.
- What an agent is told
- The briefing. It holds what you confirmed. An agent's own unconfirmed notes show up only as a count, and every briefing reports what it delivered and what it left out.
- Two tools, one record
- Cortex. If two tools try to replace the same record at once, the second is refused.
The distinction is enforced by Cortex. If Cortex is not running, Kontinuity does not pretend to have memory.
Where it lives.
Cortex runs in the cloud, behind a gateway that checks every request. Keon runs it.
It is not end-to-end encrypted, so we can read what is stored there. Your files stay on your device, and lenses read them where they are.
What an agent receives.
A briefing, at the start of a session. The shape is real. The content is made up.
Briefing for claude · project: studio-site
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