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Field notes · Atomic Strata

Thoughts from the frontier of AI context.

Essays and technical notes on context memory, AI infrastructure, governed agents, and the systems layer emerging around intelligent software.

May 2026Field notes · 01

Context Memory Is Becoming Infrastructure

AI systems are becoming stateful. As applications and agents move beyond isolated prompts, context memory becomes a core production layer: something to inspect, correct, govern, and compose. A first note on what this layer should look like — and why we're building AtomicMemory openly.

10 min · Essay
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Inspectable Retrieval: Reading the Context Path

A technical walkthrough of how AtomicMemory traces retrieval decisions, and why observability belongs in the data path — not next to it.

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Correction & Supersession in AI Memory

When the model was wrong about you yesterday and right today, where does that show up? Notes on versioned context.