Continuity
Canon states
Kanonara terminology: the six labels every important story fact carries, from CANON and PROPOSED through INFERRED, THEORY, UNKNOWN and REJECTED.
"Canon states" is Kanonara's own terminology, not an industry term. In Kanonara, "every important story fact must have a state," drawn from a fixed set: CANON (explicitly established by the author), PROPOSED (detected by AI and awaiting author approval), INFERRED (reasonably inferred from existing text), THEORY (possible interpretation), UNKNOWN (not established) and REJECTED (previously proposed but rejected by the author). The same discipline extends to characters: Kanonara preserves historical states instead of overwriting them, so it can answer questions like "What did Kai know at Chapter 10?".
The labels exist to keep the author in charge: AI must never automatically turn UNKNOWN into CANON, or THEORY into CANON, without approval. In effect the states separate what the story has established from what has merely been noticed about it, the same discipline as hand-maintained canon in a story bible, made explicit and auditable.