Definitions Directory

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  • 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
  • Distillation (definition) - Definition — distillation is targeted transformation of recorded material into a use-shaped artifact for a particular downstream consumer; in KB practice this is usually directed context compression
  • 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 part (definition) - Definition - an operative part is the behavior-affecting content, structure, parameterization, or mechanism within a retained artifact or consumption path
  • Register (definition) - Definition — a register is one of three content modes (theoretical, descriptive, prescriptive) that determines a collection's quality goal, title conventions, and linking rules
  • Representational form (definition) - Definition - representational form classifies how an operative part is encoded and consumed: prose, 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
  • 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