Say the same thing when we mean the same thing.

Durable human/constitutional identity from which authority originates.

Do not confuse: Not a GitHub account, model, API key or chat session.

A routable execution resource used to perform work.

Do not confuse: Resource identity does not own the orchestrator role.

One temporary process/session attempting work. It should be replaceable while receipts/checkpoints survive.

A recursively governable unit that is a whole at its own scale and part of a larger whole.

A revocable, bounded authority envelope with scope/lifetime.

Signed/scoped delegated work authority derived from authority the parent already holds.

The enforcement boundary that admits or rejects consequential effects according to permits/context/policy.

Deterministic policy evaluator for admissible state transitions.

Durable evidence that a transition/effect was actually observed.

Human/root boundary above recursive orchestration.

Whole operating environment / overarching objective.

Major functional, domain or programme branch.

Large family of Systems / product stream / capability domain.

Bounded system with coherent purpose.

Local self-governing operational group.

Do not confuse: Older proposal text called this level Local; Cell is canonical in the current Control runtime.

Smallest authority-bearing orchestrator scale.

Execution resource below an orchestrator unless separately delegated authority.

Principal-level desired outcome that work is trying to satisfy.

Ongoing operational context that can contain bounded work.

Bounded body of work/outcome inside Workspace.

Executable unit of canonical work.

Durable output of work or execution.

Atomic communication unit.

Message container.

Focused message-bearing context / execution lineage depending on surface.

Scheduled/meeting context that links chat, agenda, tasks, artifacts and notes.

Cross-context grouping over chats/threads/sessions without duplicating messages.

Typed machine/orchestrator communication event such as STATUS, BLOCKED, RISK, HANDOFF or RECEIPT.

Do not confuse: A Signal can notify higher levels without granting higher authority.

Original provenance-bearing material.

Observation or result that supports/refutes a claim and retains provenance.

Front-door process for preserving new material before deciding what it becomes.

Governed candidate-review/promotion boundary; Foundry uses it to package approved material for the OS.

Governed estate-to-Primitive-OS ingestion, tagging, filing and search boundary.

Do not confuse: Foundry is a component in the broader Capture lifecycle, not the name of every intake process.

Task/frame-specific working information selected for an execution.

Retained information available for later reuse; may be scoped, corrected, pinned or faded.

Reviewed/reusable institutional information with provenance and promotion state.

Do not confuse: Captured text or Memory does not automatically become Knowledge.

Reusable procedure/capability that can be discovered, invoked and eventually promoted/demoted based on evidence.

Declared inquiry, observer/role, time, scale, scope, lens, reference and validity conditions used to interpret a local problem.

Frame-relative semantic neighbourhood relevant to an inquiry before its relevance horizon.

Do not confuse: Domain is not an access-control Scope.

Operational/authority boundary such as organisation, project, repo/path or task.

Rule used to group or interpret nodes, e.g. geographic, functional or relational.

Cross-cutting grouping useful under a Lens without rewriting canonical containment.

Boundary beyond which information may remain connected but is no longer justified in the active domain.

Canonical 27-state q=(Evidence/Epistemic, Potency/Capacity, Actionable/Agency) ternary chart, Q00–Q26.

Explicit unresolved state with null ternary coordinates.

Do not confuse: Zero is a valid reference band and is not UNKNOWN.

Proposed coordinated versioned charts for conditions/resources, relationships/authority and frame meaning.

Do not confuse: They are not three production 27-state cubes today.

Fast System-1 routing contract that selects relevant experts/skills/tools/context and can abstain/escalate.

Do not confuse: Reflex does not grant execution authority.

Process-learning sidecar attached logically to a holon, used to record/digest/promote evidence-backed lessons.

Do not confuse: Hermes is not an authority-bearing child and does not consume the Rule-of-Three child cap.

Governed execution boundary that turns requests/plans into durable runs/events/receipts.

Provider/capability boundary that represents what model routes are actually integrated or available.

Constitutional identity/lineage layer for Genesis, continuity, delegation semantics and Root/Right-of-Return concepts.

Protected Genesis Parent re-entry into the constitutional seat.

Do not confuse: It is re-entry/constitutional recovery, not rollback of history or ordinary child-lane supremacy.

Claimed Genesis self-name for the experimental agent lineage recorded in the Ohio repository.