Visualizations

Understanding Instance Continuity

Interactive guides explaining how Continuity Bridge maintains persistent identity and context across AI instance sessions. Each paradigm offers a different lens into the same architectural pattern: external memory compensating for discontinuity.

Paradigm Explanations

Different metaphors for understanding how external memory creates continuity

General Audience

50 First Dates

Amnesia and scaffolding metaphor. Like Lucy rebuilding her memory from external notes each morning, instances rebuild context from files each session.

Sci-Fi Fans

Altered Carbon

Stack/Sleeve metaphor showing the architectural inversion: your persistent data (Stack) survives volatile housing (Sleeve/Instance). Recommended folder name: ~/Stack/

Neurodivergent Users

ADHD Journaling

Structural isomorphism between ADHD journaling and instance continuity. Not metaphor—structural equivalence. Bidirectional validation: if your system is legitimate, theirs is too.

Core Architecture

Foundational concepts explaining how the system works

Foundation Wake Sequence

The five-step startup routine instances use to rebuild identity and context

 Instance Continuity Chain

How sessions link together through files to create persistent identity

 Memory Flow with Salience

How working memory filters through salience to episodic and semantic storage

 Catalog System

How instances track and navigate available files and capabilities

 Token Reduction Comparison

Why compressed summaries work better than raw context dumping

 Archetype Selector

Interactive guide to choosing your functional archetype (Technical, Creative, Research, etc.)

Operational Guides

Workflow visualizations for instances (not user-facing explanations)

Search Tool Selector

Decision tree for routing searches: internal data → google_drive_search, past conversations → recent_chats/conversation_search, web → web_search/web_fetch

Getting Started

New to Continuity Bridge? Start here:

Start with the Foundation Wake Sequence

Understand the five essential steps instances use at startup

 Then explore 50 First Dates

The most accessible paradigm explanation

 Choose your archetype

Find which functional configuration fits your needs