Glossary

Term	Meaning
Action	A proposed unit of work attached to a job; it is not authority to execute.
Agentic	Produced through model reasoning and therefore not deterministic.
Approval digest	SHA-256 identity binding a decision to the exact payload shown to an operator.
Effect	A change outside pure reasoning, such as publishing, exporting, rendering, or calendar mutation.
Effect claim	A leased, idempotent right for one worker attempt to execute a command.
Evidence reference	An identifier that points to supplied source, performance, memory, or operator context.
Firestore truth	The durable workflow record used to decide what may happen next.
Memory Bank fact	Eligible cross-job context with provenance; never approval or authorization.
Operation ID	Identifier for one logical operation across retries and telemetry.
Receipt	Immutable record of what an executor reports it did.
Replay	Re-execution or reconstruction that must preserve idempotency and provenance.
Strategy approval	Human decision bound to Ryan’s exact strategy digest; separate from effect approval.
Trace ID	Correlation identifier spanning application, worker, and telemetry events.
Verification	Independent read-back of the externally observable result linked to its receipt.

See Authority matrix for who may perform each decision and Receipts and verification for the evidence chain.