Appendix C. Glossary

Architect. Human Role responsible for authoring Functions, Worker Definitions, and Charters.

Resolver. Human Role responsible for handling escalated work that requires human-to-human judgment.

Reviewer. Human Role responsible for reviewing Outcomes and exercising reflective judgment over the Workforce.

Authority Grant. The clause-by-clause specification within a Worker Definition of which actions are permitted.

Capability. A vendor-neutral invocation surface; a stateless interaction by which a Worker makes progress on an Intent.

Capability Provider. A program that registers with a runtime and exposes one or more Capabilities.

Compliance Profile. A constraint set attached to a Function to enforce regulatory, contractual, or organisational requirements.

Charter. The composite ruleset binding a Workforce: its Worker Definitions, Authority Grants, Escalation Routes, and attached Compliance Profiles.

Cost Record. The structural record of cost emitted on every Capability invocation.

Dispatch. The act of one Worker generating an Intent assigned to another Worker. A composition of Intent generation with an external target, not a primitive.

Driver. Implementation-defined logic by which a specific Worker realises decisions. Not specified by this protocol.

Envelope. Short for Audit Envelope.

Escalation. The act of a Worker handing an Intent to a higher-authority Worker or Human Role.

Evaluation. A signed, structured assessment of one or more Workers’ or Worker Definitions’ performance against expectations, computed over a bounded time window from Audit Envelope events.

Evaluation Threshold. A Compliance Profile constraint that auto-restricts Authority Grant clauses when an Evaluation signal falls below threshold, and restores them when it recovers.

Function. A deployable bundle: Mission, Worker Definitions, Signal subscriptions, seeded Intents, Charter.

Human Role. A first-class Worker Definition held by a human actor.

Intent. A typed declaration of will at a defined scope. The unit by which an organisation directs itself at every scale, from strategic direction-setting to operational coordination. See §3.4.1.

Intent Scope. The axis (org | workforce | function | worker) declared on every Intent that determines who can declare it, who decomposes it downward, and how its realisation is measured. See §3.4.6.

Intent Grammar. The Worker Definition’s declaration of which Intent kinds it can generate and which it can accept.

Mission. The workforce-level statement of purpose declared by a Function.

Operator. Human Role responsible for ongoing performance management of one or more Worker Definitions or Workers: commissioning Evaluations, synthesising findings, and proposing Recalibrations.

Outcome. The measured realisation of an Intent — what actually happened, scored against the criteria the Intent declared. The Outcome record carries the terminal resolution kind, measurement score, optional tradeoff narration, and produced artefact references. See §6.6.

Leadership Worker Definition. A typed kind of Worker Definition (role-kind:leadership/workforce-director or role-kind:leadership/function-lead) with required Charter fields for decomposing upstream Intents and aggregating downstream Outcomes. Mandatory: exactly one per Workforce + exactly one per Function. See §3.2.7.

Measurement Criterion. The typed declaration on every Intent specifying how its realisation will be scored. A union of memory-query, signal-stream, outcome-aggregation, or recursive combinator kinds. See §3.4.10.

Memory. The governed, typed, evolving substrate a Worker reads and writes — Causal, Episodic, Semantic, Working, Constitutional, Relational. Causal and Relational kinds carry a confidence that evolves by reinforce/decay/invert. Supersedes the Knowledge Base primitive. See §3.7.

Outcome Gap. The advisory OutcomeGapObserved signal emitted on divergence among an Intent’s desired outcome, its measurement score, and its delivered Outcome (proxy-gaming or bad-measure). Fed to Causal Memory as the attribution input. See §3.4.12.

Provider. Short for Capability Provider.

Recalibration. An Operator-signed proposal, citing one or more Evaluations as evidence, to modify Charter, Worker lifecycle, Capability binding, or Compliance Profile attachment. Charter-amending Recalibrations require Architect co-signature.

Worker Definition. The charter definition for a class of work.

Runtime. The implementation of the protocol; the trusted enforcement boundary.

Sediment. The bias toward routing related work to Workers with relevant prior history.

Signal. A typed stimulus delivered to a Worker.

Signal Source. A Capability Provider in the role of Signal emitter.

Standing Intent. The persistent objective declared by a Worker Definition. A worker-scope Intent variant that emits one-shot child Intents over time in response to Signals or temporal triggers. See §3.2.2 and §3.4.9.

Strategic Intent. An org-scope Intent declared by an Operator principal. Lives in the per-Authority Strategic Intent Registry (§9.6) rather than in any Envelope; cascades downward via Workforce Director Workers’ decomposition.

Strategic Intent Registry. The per-Authority signed, append-only, hash-chained audit artefact that persists Strategic Intent declarations, state transitions, supersession links, and Workforce-aggregated Outcomes. A peer artefact to Audit Envelopes; uses the same cryptographic primitives but never seals. See §9.6.

Supersession. The amendment mechanism for Intent content: declare a new Intent with supersedes: <old-intent-id> and withdraw the old one with superseded_by: <new-intent-id>. Intent content is otherwise immutable. See §3.4.7.

Tradeoff Narration. The structured signed narration that a leadership Worker MUST attach to its Outcomes when ≥ 2 Intents at the scope are active. Captures competing_intents, choice_made, costs, and reasoning. See §3.4.11.

Worker (Worker Instance). An organisational actor with stable identity; the instantiation of a Worker Definition. The principal accountable entity. Each Worker is bound to exactly one Worker Definition at any moment, and MAY re-bind to a different one over its lifetime (§3.1.7); one Worker Definition is instantiated by many Worker Instances. A single human principal (§7) MAY hold multiple Human Roles concurrently.

Worker Instance Sequence. A monotonic counter, distinct from the Worker ID, identifying which instantiation of a Worker Definition a Worker represents. Required on every Worker-attributed audit event to enable per-Worker-instance evaluation in Worker Definitions where Workers are spawned and decommissioned over time.

Workforce. A running instantiation of one or more Functions; the unit of running organisational work.