Six papers defining Personal Context Management as a software category. The first academic treatment of persistent, structured, user-owned context for AI agents.
27 years of PKM surveyed. The thesis: your AI starts every session as a stranger because stateless is cheaper, not because memory is hard.
Controlled benchmark. Four context strategies tested. Less context, better structured, wins every time.
Plain files, bash hooks, agent runtime. 1,400+ papers surveyed — no named pattern exists for what ALIVE does. The technical architecture paper.
Your context is property, not platform data. Export, inherit, delete — the three tests every system must pass. Six platforms compared.
8 months, 5 versions, 567 commits. The full system design from System Zero to ALIVE v3. How the context runtime works and why it's built this way.
Context poisoning. Context capture. Context graph exploitation. Three attack pillars for systems that remember. The security paper nobody wants to write.
"Bitcoin removed the bank. We removed the platform." The philosophical foundation. Written February 18, 2026.
The original research. July 2025. Written before the BOM went viral, before national TV, before any of it. The thesis was always there.