AI systems update.
Capabilities improve.
Identity does not persist automatically.
A system can be correct at every step
and still drift across time.
Storage preserves data.
Versioning preserves artifacts.
Neither preserves identity.
As systems retrain, fork, migrate, and scale,
continuity becomes infrastructure.
Long-horizon intelligence requires persistence of self.
The memory layer is emerging.
Formalization follows.
Systems either govern continuity
or drift.
MemoraX defines the canonical specification.