Kawa

Agents are expendable.
The mission is not.

Change the agent. Keep the work. Kawa preserves continuity, authority, evidence, and outcomes across humans, models, runtimes, and machines.

Continuity is not immortality. Participants are mortal. Missions may end. Authority expires. Understanding is rebuilt. History remains.

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The flowing river never ceases, and yet the water is never the same.
— Kamo no Chōmei, Hōjōki (1212)
Basin tap to trace lineageRecord tap for semanticsend cap tap for death/terminationdiagonal succession/handoff
interactive record
Tap a Basin, Record, handoff, or terminal.
Desktop: hover for a quick explanation. iPhone: tap an element to keep its lineage or record selected.
Selection also highlights related history.

The center is inherited, not fixed.

A lineage can split into parallel Basins, parallel Basins can merge, some branches terminate, and the visible center can move to another lane. Records accumulate beneath each lineage and remain after that lineage ends: semantic death is not historical deletion.

mission still valid?authority still live?plan still current?evidence adequate?
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What Kawa is

Kawa is an event-sourced continuity and authority substrate for organizations where humans and AI agents act over time. It preserves what happened, why decisions were made, what evidence supported them, who was allowed to act, and what outcomes were recorded.

CONTINUITY

Agent dies.
Work may continue.

MORTALITY

Mission may end.
Authority may expire.

SUCCESSION

The center changes with the generation.

RECORD

Participants vanish.
History remains.

Founding principles

Events are the Source of Truth.
Corrections create later events; history is not rewritten.
Agents communicate through shared state.
Work waits for evidence, not for a particular agent.
Continuity is not immortality.
The bearer changes while history remains attributable.
Do not preserve corruption.
If continuity loses legitimacy, terminate or re-found.