Context

Context refers to the data that defines your current state, including goals, history, preferences, environment, relationships, and more. It is what makes an AI or app useful, relevant and hyper-personalized.

Why It Matters?

Context transforms AI from a tool into an intelligent collaborator. Without it, agents are forgetful and impersonal. With it, they become memory-aware, goal-aligned, and emotionally attuned. OCL turns context into a persistent, user-owned resource that enables this transformation.

Problems With Context Today

Siloed Context

Your preferences, history, and intent are trapped inside proprietary apps and ecosystems. There's no easy way to move context between platforms. This results in a fractured digital identity and inconsistent experiences.

Stateless LLMs:

Most large language models are session-based and forgetful. They don’t remember prior interactions unless you re-feed information constantly. This leads to repetitive, shallow conversations and frustrates users seeking continuity.

Misuse Risk

Context is often stored by centralized services with opaque policies. As AI interactions become more intimate and personal, users risk sensitive data being harvested, monetized, or misused without consent.

Lack of Interop

Multi-agent systems, where several agents work on your behalf, currently lack a shared source of truth. Without a standard way to interpret and share context, agents operate in silos, causing misalignment or redundant behaviors.

Memory Fragility

Context stored by a single company can disappear overnight. If the platform shuts down, changes terms, or revokes access, users lose years of accumulated memory and insight. There is no persistence guarantee without user ownership.

Plurality Network creates a portable, privacy-preserving, long-term memory layer to alleviate the aforementioned problems.

Types of Context

• Short-Term: Current tasks, recent interactions

• Long-Term: Goals, habits, identity

• Personal: Unique to you

• Shared: Collaborative/team-based

Plurality Network’s architecture supports both personal and shared contexts, enabling continuity at both the individual and organizational level.

Contextual (Smart) Profiles

Users often live multiple digital lives, personal, work, learning, health. OCL allows creation of multiple smart profiles (or "contexts") that allows users to create data buckets grouped by purpose. You can choose which context to inject in which app or agent, maintaining privacy and relevance by design.

Users control these contextual profiles using DIDs created from their wallets. These wallets and DIDs can be controlled from an authentication method of the user's choice and could be email, gmail, a web3 wallet, etc. Your retain 100% ownership of your contexts. No platform owns, controls, or can manipulate your context, not even Plurality Network.