Concepts
Concepts give the canon one home for recurring vocabulary.
| Unit | ID | Incoming | Canonical Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acceleration Plane | concept-acceleration-plane | 3 | canon/concepts/acceleration-plane.md |
| Accountable Principal | concept-accountable-principal | 2 | canon/concepts/accountable-principal.md |
| Action-Rights Envelope | concept-action-rights-envelope | 4 | canon/concepts/action-rights-envelope.md |
| Admission Decision | concept-admission-decision | 4 | canon/concepts/admission-decision.md |
| Architecture Decision Record (ADR) | concept-adr | 1 | canon/concepts/adr.md |
| Approval Binding | concept-approval-binding | 8 | canon/concepts/approval-binding.md |
| Approval Gate | concept-approval-gate | 7 | canon/concepts/approval-gate.md |
| Approval Mode | concept-approval-mode | 6 | canon/concepts/approval-mode.md |
| The Architectural Invariant | concept-architectural-invariant | 7 | canon/concepts/architectural-invariant.md |
| Artifact As Truth | concept-artifact-as-truth | 2 | canon/concepts/artifact-as-truth.md |
| Artifact Contract | concept-artifact-contract | 5 | canon/concepts/artifact-contract.md |
| Artifact Provenance | concept-artifact-provenance | 2 | canon/concepts/artifact-provenance.md |
| Audit Record | concept-audit-record | 3 | canon/concepts/audit-record.md |
| Authoritative Intent | concept-authoritative-intent | 4 | canon/concepts/authoritative-intent.md |
| Authority Drift | concept-authority-drift | 3 | canon/concepts/authority-drift.md |
| Cadence Boundary | concept-cadence-boundary | 2 | canon/concepts/cadence-boundary.md |
| Canonical Voice | concept-canonical-voice | 1 | canon/concepts/canonical-voice.md |
| Circuit Breaker | concept-circuit-breaker | 3 | canon/concepts/circuit-breaker.md |
| Citation Theater | concept-citation-theater | 2 | canon/concepts/citation-theater.md |
| Compounding Canon | concept-compounding-canon | 2 | canon/concepts/compounding-canon.md |
| Compromised Credential Rule | concept-compromised-credential-rule | 2 | canon/concepts/compromised-credential-rule.md |
| Confidence Calibration | concept-confidence-calibration | 3 | canon/concepts/confidence-calibration.md |
| Confidence Gate | concept-confidence-gate | 3 | canon/concepts/confidence-gate.md |
| Confine the Dangerous | concept-confine-the-dangerous | 2 | canon/concepts/confine-the-dangerous.md |
| Conflict Explanation | concept-conflict-explanation | 2 | canon/concepts/conflict-explanation.md |
| Constitution Gate | concept-constitution-gate | 1 | canon/concepts/constitution-gate.md |
| Constraint | concept-constraint | 1 | canon/concepts/constraint.md |
| Control Plane | concept-control-plane | 3 | canon/concepts/control-plane.md |
| Data-Request Blocker | concept-data-request-blocker | 5 | canon/concepts/data-request-blocker.md |
| Decision Registry | concept-decision-registry | 6 | canon/concepts/decision-registry.md |
| Default | concept-default | 1 | canon/concepts/default.md |
| Delegated Action | concept-delegated-action | 8 | canon/concepts/delegated-action.md |
| Delegated Authority | concept-delegated-authority | 3 | canon/concepts/delegated-authority.md |
| Destructive Execution Boundary | concept-destructive-execution-boundary | 4 | canon/concepts/destructive-execution-boundary.md |
| Dispatch Hint | concept-dispatch-hint | 6 | canon/concepts/dispatch-hint.md |
| Disposable Artifact | concept-disposable-artifact | 1 | canon/concepts/disposable-artifact.md |
| Drift | concept-drift | 2 | canon/concepts/drift.md |
| Durable Work Record | concept-durable-work-record | 5 | canon/concepts/durable-work-record.md |
| Editorial Pipeline | concept-editorial-pipeline | 2 | canon/concepts/editorial-pipeline.md |
| Enforced Constraint | concept-enforced-constraint | 4 | canon/concepts/enforced-constraint.md |
| Eval Gate | concept-eval-gate | 3 | canon/concepts/eval-gate.md |
| Evidence Approval State | concept-evidence-approval-state | 5 | canon/concepts/evidence-approval-state.md |
| Evidence Chain | concept-evidence-chain | 9 | canon/concepts/evidence-chain.md |
| Evidence Eligibility | concept-evidence-eligibility | 4 | canon/concepts/evidence-eligibility.md |
| Governed Evidence | concept-evidence-governed | 2 | canon/concepts/evidence-governed.md |
| Evidence Laundering | concept-evidence-laundering | 3 | canon/concepts/evidence-laundering.md |
| Execution Mode | concept-execution-mode | 3 | canon/concepts/execution-mode.md |
| Extraction Discipline | concept-extraction-discipline | 2 | canon/concepts/extraction-discipline.md |
| Fail Closed | concept-fail-closed | 11 | canon/concepts/fail-closed.md |
| Failure Domain | concept-failure-domain | 3 | canon/concepts/failure-domain.md |
| Failure Mode | concept-failure-mode | 2 | canon/concepts/failure-mode.md |
| Freshness State | concept-freshness-state | 5 | canon/concepts/freshness-state.md |
| Governance Domain | concept-governance-domain | 6 | canon/concepts/governance-domain.md |
| Governance Profile | concept-governance-profile | 4 | canon/concepts/governance-profile.md |
| Governed Fallback Path | concept-governed-fallback-path | 4 | canon/concepts/governed-fallback-path.md |
| Graceful Degradation | concept-graceful-degradation | 4 | canon/concepts/graceful-degradation.md |
| Human-Only Decision | concept-human-only-decision | 4 | canon/concepts/human-only-decision.md |
| Idempotency Key | concept-idempotency-key | 5 | canon/concepts/idempotency-key.md |
| Intelligence Plane | concept-intelligence-plane | 5 | canon/concepts/intelligence-plane.md |
| Known Gap | concept-known-gap | 2 | canon/concepts/known-gap.md |
| Least Privilege | concept-least-privilege | 2 | canon/concepts/least-privilege.md |
| Lifecycle State | concept-lifecycle-state | 5 | canon/concepts/lifecycle-state.md |
| Living Documentation | concept-living-documentation | 1 | canon/concepts/living-documentation.md |
| Lossy Telemetry Boundary | concept-lossy-telemetry-boundary | 4 | canon/concepts/lossy-telemetry-boundary.md |
| Observation Plane | concept-observation-plane | 2 | canon/concepts/observation-plane.md |
| Observed Outcome | concept-observed-outcome | 4 | canon/concepts/observed-outcome.md |
| Operational State Boundary | concept-operational-state-boundary | 4 | canon/concepts/operational-state-boundary.md |
| Package Contract | concept-package-contract | 6 | canon/concepts/package-contract.md |
| Parametric Memory Boundary | concept-parametric-memory-boundary | 3 | canon/concepts/parametric-memory-boundary.md |
| Paved Road | concept-paved-road | 1 | canon/concepts/paved-road.md |
| Policy Candidate | concept-policy-candidate | 4 | canon/concepts/policy-candidate.md |
| Pre-Model Safety Boundary | concept-pre-model-safety-boundary | 5 | canon/concepts/pre-model-safety-boundary.md |
| Preserved Derivation | concept-preserved-derivation | 3 | canon/concepts/preserved-derivation.md |
| Private Control Surface | concept-private-control-surface | 3 | canon/concepts/private-control-surface.md |
| Projection Drift | concept-projection-drift | 3 | canon/concepts/projection-drift.md |
| Projection Plane | concept-projection-plane | 4 | canon/concepts/projection-plane.md |
| Promotion Boundary | concept-promotion-boundary | 3 | canon/concepts/promotion-boundary.md |
| Proof Point | concept-proof-point | 2 | canon/concepts/proof-point.md |
| Publication Projection | concept-publication-projection | 3 | canon/concepts/publication-projection.md |
| Quality Gate | concept-quality-gate | 3 | canon/concepts/quality-gate.md |
| Readiness State | concept-readiness-state | 3 | canon/concepts/readiness-state.md |
| Reference Architecture | concept-reference-architecture | 3 | canon/concepts/reference-architecture.md |
| Refusal to Guess | concept-refusal-to-guess | 4 | canon/concepts/refusal-to-guess.md |
| Regeneration Path | concept-regeneration-path | 2 | canon/concepts/regeneration-path.md |
| Relationship (Edge) | concept-relationship-edge | 4 | canon/concepts/relationship-edge.md |
| Release Approval Boundary | concept-release-approval-boundary | 2 | canon/concepts/release-approval-boundary.md |
| Reproducible Deployment Lock | concept-reproducible-deployment-lock | 4 | canon/concepts/reproducible-deployment-lock.md |
| Result Manifest | concept-result-manifest | 3 | canon/concepts/result-manifest.md |
| Retention Policy | concept-retention-policy | 5 | canon/concepts/retention-policy.md |
| Retrieval-Grounded Reasoning | concept-retrieval-grounded-reasoning | 4 | canon/concepts/retrieval-grounded-reasoning.md |
| Retry Policy | concept-retry-policy | 4 | canon/concepts/retry-policy.md |
| Review Evidence | concept-review-evidence | 4 | canon/concepts/review-evidence.md |
| Revocation Rule | concept-revocation-rule | 4 | canon/concepts/revocation-rule.md |
| Risk Tier | concept-risk-tier | 5 | canon/concepts/risk-tier.md |
| Role Pass | concept-role-pass | 2 | canon/concepts/role-pass.md |
| Rollback Plan | concept-rollback-plan | 3 | canon/concepts/rollback-plan.md |
| Score Window | concept-score-window | 3 | canon/concepts/score-window.md |
| Secure Fetch Boundary | concept-secure-fetch-boundary | 3 | canon/concepts/secure-fetch-boundary.md |
| Sensitivity Label | concept-sensitivity-label | 5 | canon/concepts/sensitivity-label.md |
| Signed Artifact Gate | concept-signed-artifact-gate | 3 | canon/concepts/signed-artifact-gate.md |
| Source Health | concept-source-health | 5 | canon/concepts/source-health.md |
| Source Of Record | concept-source-of-record | 9 | canon/concepts/source-of-record.md |
| Source Snapshot | concept-source-snapshot | 5 | canon/concepts/source-snapshot.md |
| Split-Brain | concept-split-brain | 2 | canon/concepts/split-brain.md |
| Stable Finding Fingerprint | concept-stable-finding-fingerprint | 3 | canon/concepts/stable-finding-fingerprint.md |
| Threshold Rule | concept-threshold-rule | 2 | canon/concepts/threshold-rule.md |
| Tier Ceiling | concept-tier-ceiling | 4 | canon/concepts/tier-ceiling.md |
| Transactional Mutation Boundary | concept-transactional-mutation-boundary | 4 | canon/concepts/transactional-mutation-boundary.md |
| Triggering Evidence | concept-triggering-evidence | 2 | canon/concepts/triggering-evidence.md |
| Trust Root | concept-trust-root | 3 | canon/concepts/trust-root.md |
| Truth Plane | concept-truth-plane | 4 | canon/concepts/truth-plane.md |
| Typed Intermediate Model | concept-typed-intermediate-model | 3 | canon/concepts/typed-intermediate-model.md |
| Ungrounded Confidence | concept-ungrounded-confidence | 3 | canon/concepts/ungrounded-confidence.md |
| Unsigned Artifact Policy | concept-unsigned-artifact-policy | 3 | canon/concepts/unsigned-artifact-policy.md |