Warning
Status: Nascent / Experimental This project is currently in active R&D. Expect raw edges, rapid evolution, and breaking changes as we define the AIΩN specifications.
For seventy years, computing has followed a blueprint from 1945: a solitary desk worker shuffling papers. Files, folders, mutable RAM—all engineered before the internet, distributed systems, or AI existed.
This paradigm relies on a fundamental flaw: Destruction. To write a new value to memory, the machine must destroy the old one. We built our digital world on a foundation of forgetting. This is the breeding ground for concurrency nightmares, race conditions, and "Heisenbugs"—where the state that caused a crash is obliterated the moment it happens.
Continuum is the inverse. It is a system based on perfect memory.
Tip
Continuum is the reference implementation of the AIΩN Computing standard. Visit the AIΩN repo to read the Foundation Series papers.
Continuum is the Causal OS engineered for the high-stakes future of autonomous agents and deterministic computing. It replaces "black box" execution with a "glass box" environment where causality is observable, immutable, and provable.
It utilizes WARP Graphs (Worldline Algebra for Recursive Provenance) to treat time as the fundamental geometry of the computer. It doesn't write logs, it appends computational holograms to the causal graph. This immutable, append-only ledger is the computation itself, stored. In Continuum, you do not overwrite data; you weave it into the history.
- Absolute Determinism:
Input + History = Output. Always. - Perfect Recall: Traverse the machine's entire state history as effortlessly as reading a variable.
- Zero Hallucinations: The system cannot diverge from reality because it is mathematically tethered to its own causal chain.
- Multiverse-Native: Time travel is built-in. Rewind execution to any point, fork the timeline, and explore a new worldline without losing the original context.
Continuum coalesces a suite of deterministic tools into a unified kernel. It is not just a collection of libraries; it is a closed-loop environment managed by the loom daemon.
| Component | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| WARP Graphs | Substrate | The immutable, content-addressed causal graph (History as Truth). |
| Loom | Daemon | The kernel process that "weaves" intents into the graph. |
| Echo Engine | Runtime | The deterministic rewrite execution loop. |
| TASKS/SLAPS | Planning | The intent planning and agentic layer. |
| SWS | Isolation | Shadow Working Sets for speculative process branching. |
| Wesley | Compiler | The GraphQL -> Everything bridge. |
| Nine Lives | Resilience | Fault tolerance and supervision library. |
Note
Context: Continuum is being developed alongside Echo.
- Echo: A high-performance deterministic game engine (driving feature velocity).
- Continuum: The pedantic, canonical reference implementation of the OS (driving architectural correctness).
Track progress on the AIΩN Project Board.
We are currently executing Phase 0: Kernel Skeleton.
- Phase 0: The Loom (
loomdaemon + in-memory WARP graph) - Phase 1: Observation (Live visualization via GraphQL subscriptions)
- Phase 2: Multiverse (SWS overlays, branching, and merging)
- Phase 3: Agency (Deterministic Planner & Intent Scheduling)
- Phase 4: Execution (End-to-End
submit_intent→ Worker) - Phase 5: Realization (Shell/LLM Integration)
Continuum © 2026 by James Ross. Continuum is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 OR MIND-UCAL.
Note
In short: you may freely use the theory, papers, and documentation without adopting MIND-UCAL; MIND-UCAL applies only to derivative ethical commitments, not technical use.
"Things are only impossible until they're not." — Jean-Luc Picard