Continuity of state · The carried context · Element

The depth

How far back the history reaches.

The part

What it is

The current episode, the last few interactions, or everything. Each level costs more and adds less than the one before it.

The last three interactions covers the great majority of situations where history matters.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.