Definitions Directory

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  • Actionable methodology (definition) - Definition — actionable is a relation a methodology stands in, not a property of an artifact: it holds only relative to an operator, available operations, a target system, and a stated setting
  • Behavior-determining organization (definition) - Definition — the retained structure that shapes how a system will operate: parameters, policies, memory, rules, workflows, tools, code, architecture, evaluators; outputs and environment excluded
  • Behavioral authority (definition) - Definition - behavioral authority records who consumes a retained artifact, through which channel, and with what force
  • Codification (definition) - Definition — codification is constraining that crosses from natural language into a symbolic artifact with formal semantics or assigned consequences; executable code is the main practical KB case
  • Constraining (definition) - Definition — constraining narrows the space of valid interpretations a text or symbolic artifact admits, from partial semantic focusing to full commitment in a symbolic artifact with formal semantics
  • Context engineering (definition) - Definition — context engineering is the discipline of designing systems around bounded-context constraints; its operational core is routing, loading, scoping, and maintenance for each bounded call
  • Directed reading (definition) - Definition - directed reading is reading selected material through an explicit task lens to produce a lens-shaped artifact or judgment
  • Discovery lifecycle (definition) - Definition — the discovery lifecycle is a proposed six-phase evaluation of an ampliative conjecture; the compound is technical, bare 'discovery' stays ordinary English
  • Evidence bearing on an improvement objective (definition) - Definition — evidence bears on an improvement objective when it carries information about the criterion: gradients, rewards, errors, viability signals, tests, judgments; no evaluator required
  • Knowledge artifact (definition) - Definition - a knowledge artifact is a retained artifact consumed as evidence, reference, context, explanation, or advice
  • Lineage (definition) - Definition - lineage records the source dependencies needed to invalidate, regenerate, retire, or review retained behavior-shaping artifacts
  • Operative change (definition) - Definition — a change is operative when it affects the system's subsequent operation over the relevant, declared horizon through a behavioral-authority path; operativity does not require permanence
  • Operative part (definition) - Definition - an operative part is the behavior-affecting content, structure, parameterization, or mechanism within a retained artifact or consumption path
  • Reach-assessment (definition) - Definition — judging whether a commitment's claimed explanatory-reach is genuine across natural-language, symbolic, and distributed-parametric forms
  • Reflective system (definition) - Definition — a reflective system has an aspect-bounded, causally connected self-representation available to processes inside a declared system boundary
  • Representational form (definition) - Definition - representational form classifies how an operative part is encoded and consumed: natural-language, symbolic, distributed-parametric, or mixed
  • Retained artifact (definition) - Definition - a retained artifact is retained state that a later agentic loop can consume in a behavior-shaping way, regardless of storage substrate
  • Self-improving system (definition) - Definition — operative, evidence-responsive change to a system's own behavior-determining organization, read against a declared boundary, horizon, and improvement objective
  • Storage substrate (definition) - Definition - storage substrate records where retained state persists, as an operational field distinct from form, lineage, and authority
  • System-definition artifact (definition) - Definition - a system-definition artifact is a retained artifact consumed with instruction, enforcement, routing, validation, configuration, evaluation, or learning force
  • Text contract (definition) - Definition — a text contract is the binding requirement a collection's COLLECTION.md declares; a profile is a named, proven bundle of contract features a collection may adopt, extend, or replace