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Active Knowledge Modelling Methodology for Agent-Native Knowledgebases

Authors: Manna, Mahmudur Rahman;

Active Knowledge Modelling Methodology for Agent-Native Knowledgebases

Abstract

Modern artificial intelligence (`AI`) agents increasingly use tools, retrieval, workflows, and long-context reasoning, yet their operational worlds are often exposed as fragments: rows, documents, messages, statuses, dashboards, and hidden process logic. Relational systems gained a modelling grammar through the `entity-relationship diagram` (`ERD`). Enterprise AI still lacks an equivalent practical standard for agent-operable knowledge. This paper proposes the `Active Knowledge Modelling Methodology` (`AKMM`) for modelling knowledge as a world of explicit, stateful, active things. AKMM begins from the claim that an active thing becomes knowable through boundary and that its boundary becomes intelligible through lifecycle. A Knowledgebase is therefore treated as an authored operational knowledge world for agents. AKMM defines `Knowledgebase`, `Active Thing Type`, `Active Thing Instance`, `Identity Index`, `Lifecycle Memory`, and `Canonical Events` as core structures. Identity Index exposes the active skeleton of a thing before action begins; Lifecycle Memory records how the thing has lived rather than merely what changed; Canonical Events preserve shared occurrences and their per-thing consequences. The paper advances two bounded claims. First, AKMM is universal methodologically: primitives of boundary, lifecycle, state, event, transition, relation, and purpose recur where knowledge concerns active things; this is not empirical exhaustion. Second, `Agent-Native` means that the Knowledgebase already exposes the identity, lived path, lawful movement, relation, impact, and monitoring surfaces an agent needs. The empirical program includes one full order-processing proof of concept and two lighter transfer PoCs. Current results support AKMM as a serious candidate foundation, not an industrially validated standard.

Keywords

agent-native knowledgebase, knowledge representation, lifecycle modelling, active things, case modelling, enterprise AI, Knowledge engineering

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