Reproducible Deployment Lock. A durable declaration of the intended deployed state, specific enough to reproduce, compare, restore, or audit that state later.
The CAM README shows the concept directly: create a system lockfile, inspect it, and restore it on another machine. CapStart reinforces the same idea with reproducible install manifests and signed profile bundles. The lock is not the running system; it is the portable record that lets the system be rebuilt or compared without guessing. A deployment lock can carry authoritative intent for a rebuild or recovery loop. A result manifest is the companion outcome record: it says what happened after the lock, plan, or profile was executed.