Context Intermediate Representationir
Context IR (Brian Letort) is the typed semantic object sitting between raw source context and runtime execution — facts, events, entities, commitments, plus governance metadata (provenance, policy, freshness, confidence, explicit omissions).
It names the missing layer between retrieval and reasoning, and formalizes "continuity of cognition" — the compiler + IR core survives changes above and below it.
Where it appears
- Cited in the Compile-Time AI taxonomy (2026-07-12)
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Foundations
Historical evolution
Proposed by Brian Letort as 'the missing layer'; the sharpest formalization of the compile-time pattern.
Implementation details
SKCE's ConceptNode is a knowledge-domain cousin of Context IR, sharing the governance-metadata stance (provenance + confidence on every node).
Sources
- [2026-07-12-compile-time-ai-knowledge-compiler-architecture] 2026-07-12-compile-time-ai-knowledge-compiler-architecture
- [2026-07-12-compile-time-ai-knowledge-compiler-architecture] 2026-07-12-compile-time-ai-knowledge-compiler-architecture