Appendix C. Glossary
Architect. Human Role responsible for authoring Functions, Roles, 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 Role 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 Roles, 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 Roles’ 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, Roles, Signal subscriptions, seeded Intents, Charter.
Human Role. A first-class Role held by a human actor.
Intent. A typed desired outcome being pursued. The unit of work.
Intent Grammar. The Role’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 Roles or Workers: commissioning Evaluations, synthesising findings, and proposing Recalibrations.
Outcome. The terminal resolution state of an Intent.
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.
Role. 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 Role.
Worker. An organisational actor with stable identity, bound to exactly one Role at any moment. The principal accountable entity. A single human principal (§7) MAY hold multiple Human Roles concurrently, but Workers are 1:1 with Roles.
Worker Instance Sequence. A monotonic counter, distinct from the Worker ID, identifying which instantiation of a Role a Worker represents. Required on every Worker-attributed audit event to enable per-Worker-instance evaluation in Roles where Workers are spawned and decommissioned over time.
Workforce. A running instantiation of one or more Functions; the unit of running organisational work.