Institutional Continuity Substrate: Persistent Canon, Role, and Artifact State Across Organizational AI Interaction

SM-021: Institutional Continuity Substrate (ICS) The Institutional Continuity Substrate (SM-021) defines the persistent structural layer that maintains canon integrity, role authority, artifact lineage, verification state, and propagation constraints across organizational AI interaction over time. It provides the persistence mechanism required for the Operational Continuity Architecture (SM-003) to remain durable across workflows, personnel changes, and institutional time. Key persistent layers include: Canon Persistence Layer for maintaining stable institutional reference standards Role Continuity Layer for preserving authority boundaries and generative expertise Artifact Lineage Layer for traceable…