Identity Preservation Across Upgrades

Nick Clark

Identity Preservation Across Upgrades is a secondary inventive step of the Agent-Resident Execution Substrate disclosed in U.S. Provisional Application No. 64/070,239, developing both the Governed Substrate-Runtime Update with Continuity Attestation and the Identity Continuity Guarantee Across Subordinate Replacement. The semantic agent maintains continuity of identity, cognitive state, and lineage across tool lifecycle operations and substrate-runtime update operations, with the agent's identity not dependent on any specific model artifact and preserved across replacement, retraining, or removal of any subordinate model.

Identity Preservation Across Upgrades

The semantic agent maintains continuity of identity, cognitive state, and lineage across device power cycles, application restarts, model artifact loading and unloading events, tool lifecycle operations, and substrate-runtime update operations. The agent's identity is not dependent on any specific model artifact and is preserved across replacement, retraining, or removal of any subordinate model. A substrate-runtime update is recorded as a substrate-runtime update event in the lineage field, with each lineage record verifiable against its predecessor under a continuity proof, so the update appends to the agent's operational history rather than resetting its identity.

Disclosure Scope

This article describes subject matter disclosed in U.S. Provisional Application No. 64/070,239. It is a technical disclosure for educational purposes and is not legal advice.