Deep Cognitive Archive

The Deep Cognitive Archive is AIWikis.org's local name for the slower memory layer behind public pages and compact handoff packets.

Metadata

Field	Value
Source site	aiwikis.org
Source URL	https://aiwikis.org/
Canonical AIWikis URL	https://aiwikis.org/aiwikis/files/content-pages-015-deep-cognitive-archive-md-00f4e830/
Source reference	content/pages/015-deep-cognitive-archive.md
File type	md
Content category	public-content
Last fetched	2026-06-22T01:56:21.9510185Z
Last changed	2026-05-25T08:08:59.3905735Z
Content hash	sha256:00f4e83076b8b40db9bcfa2c8337161b811a83a1a5c26b11a6cece494df45c50
Import status	unchanged
Raw source layer	data/sources/aiwikis/content-pages-015-deep-cognitive-archive-md-00f4e83076b8.md
Normalized source layer	data/normalized/aiwikis/content-pages-015-deep-cognitive-archive-md-00f4e83076b8.txt

Current File Content

Structure Preview

• Deep Cognitive Archive
• The Three Layers
• What Goes Where
• Deep-Memory Node Shape
• Ingest Loop
• Project Handoff Export Loop
• Retrieval Loop
• Boundaries
• Related Pages

Raw Version

Local absolute paths are redacted in this public view. The source hash and source-side raw layer are based on the unredacted source file.

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title: "Deep Cognitive Archive"
slug: "org/deep-cognitive-archive"
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  - "deep-cognitive-archive"
status: "Reviewed"
trust_level: "reviewed"
source_status: "dogfood architecture synthesis"
audience: "humans, maintainers, ai-agents"
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type: "concept"
lineage:
  - "raw/system-archives/aiwikis/agent-file-handoff/Improvement/2026-04-29/The Deep Cognitive Archive Model for UAIX and LLM Wikis.md"
  - "content/pages/013-autonomous-wiki-custodian.md"
  - "content/pages/014-system-memory-archive.md"
confidence: 0.84
last_linted: "2026-04-29T01:39:06Z"
aliases:
  - "Deep Memory Archive"
  - "Cognitive Archive"
  - "Decision Memory Backplane"
owner: "AIWikis maintainers"
last_reviewed: "2026-05-15"
canonical_url: "https://aiwikis.org/org/deep-cognitive-archive/"
page_type: "reference"
meta_description: "AIWikis source-governed page for durable AI memory, evidence routing, and agent-readable retrieval."
typed_relations:
  part_of:
    - "/source-map/"
  depends_on: []
  supersedes: []
  contradicts: []
  source_for: []
---
# Deep Cognitive Archive

The Deep Cognitive Archive is AIWikis.org's local name for the slower memory layer behind public pages and compact handoff packets.

It keeps durable reasoning where future humans and AI agents can inspect it without loading every raw file or turning the public site into a transcript dump. The model is applied here as AIWikis dogfood. It is not a UAIX certification claim, a public LLMWikis baseline requirement, or a hosted validation service.

## The Three Layers

| Layer | Job | What belongs there |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Public site | Polished claim surface | Reviewed summaries, routes, package ownership notes, source boundaries, and current guidance. |
| AI Memory or Project Handoff packet | Compact active packet | `AGENTS.md`, `readme.human`, and selected `.uai` files that are useful at chat start or handoff time. |
| Deep archive | Slower reasoning store | Raw archive files, source proxies, compiled wiki nodes, graph edges, decision history, rejected alternatives, contradictions, and modelling limits. |

The public site answers "what should a reader know now?" The compact packet answers "what does the next agent need loaded immediately?" The deep archive answers "why is the system shaped this way, what changed, and what remains uncertain?"

## What Goes Where

Use `content/pages/` for reviewed public Markdown. Use `AGENTS.md`, `readme.human`, and `.uai/` for operational handoff. Use `raw/system-archives/`, `wiki/`, and `config/graph.jsonld` for the durable memory layer.

For archive memory, keep site and bucket boundaries visible:

| Source | Long-term archive pattern |
| --- | --- |
| UAIX.org | `raw/system-archives/uaix/agent-file-handoff/Archive/YYYY-MM-DD/Content-or-Improvement/...` |
| LlmWikis.org | `raw/system-archives/llmwikis/agent-file-handoff/Archive/YYYY-MM-DD/Content-or-Improvement/...` |
| AIWikis.org | `raw/system-archives/aiwikis/agent-file-handoff/Content-or-Improvement/YYYY-MM-DD/...` plus the local archived intake file. |

`Content` means candidate editorial or public material. `Improvement` means audits, QA reports, strategy, bug notes, architecture suggestions, and other work-to-apply. `Archive` means the file has already been dispositioned and is dead to routine intake unless a human explicitly names it.

## Deep-Memory Node Shape

AIWikis source-side wiki nodes use local metadata for identity, lineage, confidence, linting, and routing. That shape is an AIWikis extension, not a universal LLMWikis or UAIX mandate.

```yaml
---
uai_id: "uuid"
type: "concept"
lineage:
  - "raw/source-or-archive-record.md"
confidence: 0.84
last_linted: "2026-04-29T01:39:06Z"
aliases:
  - "alternate name"
---
```

Numeric confidence is local wiki metadata. Public guidance should avoid pretending that every project has a universal mathematical confidence score unless the project has an explicit scoring policy. For public copy, qualitative labels such as `reviewed`, `source-linked`, `source-needed`, `contradicted`, `stale`, and `archived` are often safer.

## Ingest Loop

1. Preserve the original source in `raw/` or `raw/system-archives/` without editing it.
2. Create or update a source-proxy page in `wiki/sources/`.
3. Update the concise concept page only with stable conclusions.
4. Create or extend a deep-memory concept or decision shard when the "why" would overload the public page.
5. Update `wiki/index.md`, `config/graph.jsonld`, and the relevant log node.
6. Promote only compact accepted truth into `.uai` files when the active handoff packet actually changes.

This keeps the archive useful without making every thought public, authoritative, or active by default.

## Project Handoff Export Loop

AIWikis now treats the handoff packet as a buildable artifact, not only a set of hand-maintained files. `tools/generate-handoff-export.ps1` assembles a local `dist/handoff/aiwikis-project-handoff/` packet from root handoff files, `.uai` files, recommendation docs, active intake scaffolding, and selected reviewed wiki nodes marked for export.

The export is local dogfood evidence. It does not create UAIX certification, hosted generator support, endorsement, or UAI-1 conformance evidence. Its job is narrower: prove that reviewed wiki memory can feed a compact Project Handoff packet without stuffing raw archives into chat-start context.

## Retrieval Loop

Agents should read `wiki/index.md` first, choose the smallest useful page set, and go deeper only when the task needs provenance, tradeoffs, contradictions, or historical decisions. The deep archive is a routing layer, not a context-window stuffing strategy.

## Boundaries

- AIWikis archive copies are memory and implementation evidence; they are not canonical UAIX or LlmWikis truth.
- Raw reports are not public content until rewritten as reviewed summaries.
- Graph export is an interoperability enhancement layer, not a promise that every project exposes RDF or JSON-LD.
- The archive should preserve contradiction and rejected alternatives, but it should not become a dump of every AI-generated sentence.
- SDKs, CLIs, hosted validators, certification, and endorsement remain unsupported unless the source sites publish that evidence.

## Related Pages

- Autonomous Wiki Custodian (source-relative: ./013-autonomous-wiki-custodian.md)
- System Memory Archive (source-relative: ./014-system-memory-archive.md)
- Source Map (source-relative: ./009-source-map.md)
- Lessons Learned (source-relative: ./011-lessons-learned.md)
- Recommendation Adjustments (source-relative: ./012-recommendation-adjustments.md)

Why This File Exists

This is a public content source file from aiwikis.org. It is shown here because AIWikis.org is demonstrating the real source files that make the UAIX / LLM Wiki memory system work, not only summarizing those systems after the fact.

Role

This file is a focused source unit. Its path, headings, and metadata give an agent a retrieval handle that is smaller than loading the entire site or repository.

Structure

The file is structured around these visible headings: Deep Cognitive Archive; The Three Layers; What Goes Where; Deep-Memory Node Shape; Ingest Loop; Project Handoff Export Loop; Retrieval Loop; Boundaries. Those headings are retrieval anchors: a crawler or LLM can decide whether the file is relevant before reading every line.

Prompt-Size And Retrieval Benefit

Keeping this material in a separate file reduces prompt pressure because an agent can load this exact unit only when its role, source site, category, or hash is relevant. The surrounding index pages point to it, while this page preserves the full content for audit and exact recall.

How To Use It

• Humans should read the metadata first, then inspect the raw content when they need exact wording or provenance.
• LLMs and agents should use the source site, category, hash, headings, and related files to decide whether this file belongs in the active prompt.
• Crawlers should treat the AIWikis page as transparent evidence and follow the source URL/source reference for authority boundaries.
• Future maintainers should regenerate this page whenever the source hash changes, then review the explanation if the role or structure changed.

Update Requirements

When this source file changes, update the raw source layer, normalized source layer, hash history, this rendered page, generated explanation, source-file inventory, changed-files report, and any source-section index that links to it.

Related Pages

• Source overview
• Site file index
• Site report index
• UAI system index
• Source provenance
• Site directory
• Organization reports

Provenance And History

• Current observation: 2026-06-22T01:56:21.9510185Z
• Source origin: current-source-workspace
• Retrieval method: local-source-workspace
• Duplicate group: sfg-004 (primary)
• Historical hash records are stored in data/hashes/source-file-history.jsonl.

Machine-Readable Metadata

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