Boundary contract between GLoops and Ralph, speaking four nouns only: Capability, Evidence, Receipt, Authority.
Canonical home: Portfolio Strategy §9
Related: Architecture diagrams, runtime, Action Queue
Glossary
Cross-linking
Glossary
Every load-bearing term points to its canonical home, related diagrams, implementation chapter, product surface, and examples.
Role replacement unit
Canonical home: Glossary and ADR 0013
Related: Role scorecards, roadmap, success metrics
Governed organizational intent
Canonical home: WORK_ORDER_SPEC
Related: Execution pipeline and Portfolio Receipt
Strongest known capability class instance
Canonical home: Portfolio Strategy §14 and ADR 0003
Related: Flywheel, Induct, capability extraction
Immutable operational decision record
Canonical home: Glossary
Related: Receipt Explorer, GBrain, Proven audit
Earned scoped permission to act
Canonical home: Glossary and ADR 0006
Related: Authority ladder, ROM, Action Queue
Internal decision-history memory
Canonical home: Glossary
Related: Knowledge Graph, context assembly
A real-world mutation that satisfies all six gates (scoped, receipted, reviewable, reversible, fail-closed, within delegated authority) and is therefore delegated without escalation.
Canonical home: ADR 0006
Related: Governance, Action Queue filtering
Verifiable artifact (receipt, test output, audit record) that proves a capability claim at the grade asserted — not a plan, doc, or description.
Canonical home: EXECUTION_PRINCIPLES.md §2, Glossary
Related: Honesty grades, receipts, capability cards
The capability maturity ladder — Built → Operational → Proven, with Blocked for a capability that regressed — where each grade requires a higher bar of evidence (see Govern: Authority, Honesty & Review); a capability is never claimed at a grade the evidence does not support.
Canonical home: EXECUTION_PRINCIPLES.md §2
Related: Honesty grades figure, capability cards, role scorecards
The execution plane that claims and runs ExecutionRequests inside delegated authority bounds, returning receipts.
Canonical home: Glossary, ADR 0006
Related: Runtime architecture, Work Order flow, Governance
The executive surface where a human meets the organization: named perspectives, Decision Briefs, and the few reserved decisions that need a person.
Canonical home: Portfolio Strategy §2
Related: Capability API, Action Queue, executive understanding
An Opus-level agent (or the executive) holding portfolio authority: adjudicates cross-boundary questions by ADR and generates governed Work Orders; holds no execution authority.
Canonical home: PORTFOLIO_STEWARD.md, ADR 0013
Related: Work Orders, governance, authority ladder
A durable public abstraction representing a governed organizational function — not a loop, script, or feature. Capabilities are consumed via the Capability API and graded by evidence.
Canonical home: GLOSSARY.md, Capability API wire spec
Related: Capability cards, canonical hierarchy, role replacement