The Memory Lifecycle

The loop every memory travels: extract → store → evolve → retrieve → assemble, with govern wrapped around all of it.

evolve is the stage with no counterpart in retrieval systems. A corpus does not change its mind.

Why it matters in a memory layer

It is this course's spine. Every lesson declares the stage it belongs to, so a reader always knows which part of the machine they are working on and what it connects to. Where a system is failing is usually a question of which stage is missing.

Connections

Taught in: Memory Is Not RAG

Used in: Anatomy of a Memory Layer · Context Is Not Memory · The Taxonomy That Actually Routes