Research brief / Security & evidence
Artifact Continuity & Provenance
Research into sources, versions, dependencies, staleness, and organizational state around an artifact.
The research question
How can a system explain where an artifact came from and which later decisions depend on it?
Inside the work
The Cortex direction studies artifact identity, versions, dependencies, canonical state, and staleness. Neuron's implemented project, task, and evidence foundation is distinct from the broader artifact registry and provenance graph still planned.
A local AI coding workbench that keeps projects, people, agents, and evidence together. The Neuron project offers a concrete way into this field of research.
Explore NeuronWhat this brief establishes
This is an overview of the program and its place in the research library. It is not a full paper, a dataset, or evidence of a measured outcome. Where a related project has a tested result or an open limitation, its project page names that boundary.
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