Initiative chain
One line of work, from the idea down to the Slice Specification. A chain is created by the first thing placed in it, and the levels above its entry point stay empty.
Operation
One manually invoked step of the pipeline. Each operation reads bounded inputs, writes only its declared outputs and then stops.
Sealed revision
Immutable bytes with a content hash, held in the content-addressed store. A later revision is a new revision, and nothing overwrites an accepted one. Sealing is not acceptance.
Approval
A separate record naming an authority, a revision and an approval identifier. Which role may approve depends on the document type.
Verdict
A review’s opinion about one exact revision: PASS, PASS_WITH_ADVISORIES,
REVISE, PROVISIONAL or BLOCKED. A verdict is not readiness, and the two
never appear on the same record.
Readiness
A derived fact about a Feature, computed by replaying the recorded history
rather than declared by any operation. The vocabulary is not-ready, partial,
development-ready, blocked, stale and not-applicable, and it stops at
development-ready on purpose.
Grounding
A promoted revision of scanned workspace context. Operations that require context refuse without it, and a run that proceeded without it is recorded as ungrounded.
Entry mode
How an operation was entered, recorded with the run: native, imported,
revise or diagnostic. A diagnostic run names the missing prerequisite and
the command that would supply it, and produces no artifact.
Portable description section
The part of a specification that a planner or tracker needs, embedded as a deterministic projection of the canonical register rather than written beside it.
Undetermined
A doctor result that is neither pass nor fail, because the check could not
reach a verdict. It is never read as a pass: a skip is not a pass.