Why the Data Layer Needs Its Own Context Layer

Your data agents need context, and the place it has to live is a data context layer built for the data estate itself. A person reading a catalog entry can tell when it is wrong, ask a colleague, or check a dashboard. An agent cannot. It acts on the description it is handed, and when it finds two definitions of revenue it picks one. This paper explains what has to change underneath.

• The unit of trust is the fact: trust attaches to individual facts rather than asset records, so many producers can write at once.
• A fail-closed write path: six checks stand between an agent's observation and a fact the fleet will act on, each one recorded.
• Written, not crawled: a graph refreshed by the work that changed the estate, rather than by a crawl schedule that always lags.
• Promotion needs a human: making a fact authoritative takes a named human signature, and an agent cannot sign for its own work.