Glossary
Memory, context, and intelligence —
translated.
Tempreon speaks the same language as the rest of the AI memory world — plus a few words of our own. Here's how the industry vocabulary maps to the product, so you can tell what's the same, what's different, and what's layered above.
Industry term → Tempreon term
Comparing Tempreon to Mem0, Zep, Cognee, Personal.ai, ChatGPT memory, or Claude memory? Here's the dictionary so every apples-to-apples check resolves cleanly. Each term has its own page with the full definition.
| Industry term | In Tempreon | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| AI memory | Knowledge Vault + Core Imprint | In Tempreon, stored memory lives in the Knowledge Vault, and the identity layer above it — who you are, how you think, how you decide — is the Core Imprint. Memory is the floor. The layer above it is what makes output sound like you rather than like an AI. |
| Memory types (episodic, semantic, procedural) | Instincts — Style, Process, Judgment | Tempreon organizes learned patterns as Instincts, in three kinds: Style (how you write and communicate), Process (how you run work), and Judgment (how you make a call). These are learned from how you actually work rather than declared up front. |
| Context window | Personalized context | Tempreon assembles the context for each interaction rather than dumping an archive into it — drawing on stored memory plus the patterns learned about how you work, so the model starts informed instead of cold. |
| Knowledge graph | Your Network + Knowledge Vault links | Your Network and the Knowledge Vault combine to form a graph of who and what matters in your work, mapped as you use your AI tools rather than assembled by hand. |
| Ontology / custom entity types | Domains + Agents | Tempreon uses Domains to scope different areas of your work — personal, work, side projects — so the right memory is in the right place, and Agents to give each area a distinct way of operating. |
| Fact invalidation / temporal memory | Supersession | Tempreon calls this Supersession. When something you said is no longer true, the old version is marked superseded rather than deleted, so current truth and history are both available. |
| Memory layer / memory infrastructure | The Intelligence Forge | Tempreon's full stack — memory plus the learning layer that compounds it into something that sounds like you — is the Intelligence Forge. |
| Context engineering | Dynamic context assembly | Tempreon does this automatically. Each interaction gets context drawn from your stored memory plus the patterns the system has learned about how you work, without you pasting a prompt. |
| Self-improving memory | Tempering & Honing | Tempreon names these separately. Tempering is the passive learning from how you work; Honing is the active refinement when you correct the system. Both sharpen the intelligence layer over time. |
| Personalized retrieval | Personalized search | Tempreon weights search results the way you would, so what matters to you gets found rather than merely what matches the words. |
| Portability / model-agnostic | Bridges | Bridges are how Tempreon connects to AI tools — one identity layer across Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and more, so your intelligence follows you to whichever tool you are working in. |
| System prompt / custom instructions | The Kernel | Tempreon's Kernel is the earned version of that file — versioned operating rules distilled from how you actually work, in your own words, portable to any LLM. |
| Memory migration / memory export-import | Memory Import | Memory Import brings memory you have built in other AI tools into Tempreon, after which it travels to every tool you connect. |
| MCP server / custom connector | Your Tempreon Bridge endpoint | Tempreon is delivered as a hosted MCP server. Add the Bridge URL once in any MCP-capable client and that tool gains your intelligence layer. |
| MCP client / MCP host | Any connected AI tool | Any AI tool you connect to Tempreon is acting as the MCP client. The setup guides cover the major ones individually. |
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