The governing principles of Entity Core.
A short set of rules for building durable, governed, self-improving entity memory.
- 01Preserve originals
Keep source-of-truth artifacts unchanged and recoverable.
- 02Record events
Append-only history of what happened, when, and by whom.
- 03Maintain living knowledge
Knowledge is a maintained state, not a frozen document.
- 04Rebuild derived views
Reports and dashboards are rebuildable from originals and events.
- 05Make decisions traceable
Decisions carry context, rationale, and accountable owners.
- 06Design for humans and agents
Legible to people and machine-usable by AI agents alike.
- 07Keep memory portable
The entity core is exportable and runnable outside any vendor.
- 08Own the entity memory
The entity — not a tool or provider — owns its operating memory.
- 09Govern context explicitly
Decision rights, sensitivity, and access are declared, not implied.
- 10Separate what, meaning, and use
Events, knowledge, and views are distinct layers.
- 11Prefer additive change
New information augments; nothing is silently overwritten.
- 12Reduce single-person dependency
No critical knowledge lives only in one person’s head.
- 13Reduce single-tool dependency
No critical memory lives only in one SaaS tool.
- 14Make signals actionable
Customer, financial, and operational signals feed decisions.
- 15Close the improvement loop
Observe, interpret, decide, act, measure, improve, repeat.
- 16Prefer legibility over cleverness
Clear structure beats hidden intelligence.
- 17Version living context
Living knowledge is versioned and auditable over time.
- 18Bound agent behavior
Agents operate within declared context and permissions.
- 19Attribute origin
Every piece of knowledge points back to its sources.
- 20Keep governance small enough to use
Rules exist to be applied, not to be admired.
- 21Prefer open standards
Interoperability and continuity over lock-in.
- 22Continuity across change
The entity’s memory survives tool, team, and platform change.