\section{Related Work}
\label{sec:related}

\paragraph{Provenance and event history.}
W3C PROV provides a portable model for entities, activities, agents,
derivation, and responsibility \cite{w3cProv2013}. Process mining discovers
and checks process models from event data and has long emphasized event-log
quality and fitness between observed and modeled behavior
\cite{vanDerAalst2012manifesto}. KFD Episodes can use both. The additional
problem is that the case, activity, responsibility, or process ontology may be
the object under revision. KFD therefore requires the current ontology,
observer, consequence boundary, and promotion path to remain explicit.

\paragraph{Causal discovery and representation learning.}
Causal inference distinguishes observation, intervention, and counterfactual
reasoning \cite{pearl2009causality}. Causal representation learning asks how
high-level causal variables can be recovered from low-level observations and
how they support transfer \cite{scholkopf2021causal}. This is close to
Primitive genesis, but KFD addresses a wider socio-technical object: a
candidate may carry responsibility, authority, lifecycle, and participant
consequences that cannot be promoted by model fit alone. KFD-5 qualification
and separated promotion authority are therefore complementary to statistical
causal evidence.

\paragraph{Episodic control and open-ended learning.}
Model-free episodic control stores high-value experience for rapid reuse
\cite{blundell2016episodic}. Open-ended learning changes task distributions and
objectives so agents continue acquiring behavior
\cite{stooke2021open,guttenberg2019open}. These lines demonstrate the value of
experience beyond one update and the difficulty of measuring continuing
novelty. The present proposal is narrower in capability and broader in
governance. It does not seek unbounded behavioral novelty; it tests whether a
declared causal corpus supports a bounded ontology change that remains
falsifiable and separately admitted.

\paragraph{Organizational memory.}
Organizational-memory research distinguishes acquisition, retention,
retrieval, use, misuse, and abuse \cite{walsh1991memory}. Episode asset
stewardship shares this concern but rejects the repository metaphor when it
implies a neutral past. Perspective and schema determine what enters memory,
while later replay constructs a view under declared loss. The asset is thus a
versioned evidence option, not a complete organizational recollection.

\paragraph{Boundary objects and distributed cognition.}
Boundary objects are adaptable to different social worlds while maintaining
enough common identity for cooperation \cite{star1989boundary}. KFD's accepted
software-domain candidates often mediate exactly such contact surfaces. The
new contribution is a promotion discipline: adaptability and use do not alone
establish a Primitive. The candidate must preserve a decision-changing
distinction, survive alternatives and falsifiers, and keep its lower
authorities inspectable.

Across these literatures, the common insight is that history, representation,
and viewpoint shape action. The gap addressed here is an end-to-end contract
for moving from governed causal history to a proposed ontology revision
without merging generation, evidence, evaluation, and admission.
