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| Context Substrate | concept |
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2026-04-23 |
Definition
AI Agent 的上下文管理技术路线之一(Camp 2)。维护结构化、人类可读的上下文文件(Markdown、知识图谱、上下文容器),跨会话自然累积增长。
Core Philosophy
"What context should the AI work inside?"(而非 Camp 1 的 "what should the AI remember?")
- Nothing gets extracted — the context is the files.
- 文件是人类可读、可编辑、可理解的。
- 因为上下文是文件,人可以随时纠正、补充和理解 Agent 知道什么。
- 系统随时间自然复合增长(compounding),而非依赖提取质量。
Mechanism
Agent reads structured context → Agent works within that context →
Agent (or background process) writes back to the structured context →
Next session, the context is richer than before
Representative Tools
- OpenClaw:Markdown 文件 + dreaming cycle
- Zep:Temporal knowledge graph(Graphiti)
- Thoth:Personal knowledge graph(10 entity types, 67 relations)
- TrustGraph:Context Cores(可移植版本化上下文捆绑包)
- MemSearch:Markdown-first + shadow vector index
- ALIVE:Structured context substrate, walnuts as portable containers
Relationship to Camp 1
- Camp 1 优化目标:召回(can the system find the right fact?)
- Camp 2 优化目标:复合(does the system get better over time?)
- Zep 从"memory"→"context engineering"的品牌重塑,是 Camp 1/Camp 2 边界处最强的市场信号
- Supermemory(Camp 1)的时序感知和 Honcho(Camp 1)的心理建模,代表 Camp 1 向 Camp 2 的演进趋势
Key Distinction from RAG
RAG 通常指一次性的文档检索问答场景;Context Substrate 强调跨时间的上下文累积,是持续运行 Agent 的基础设施。