Glossary

Glossary

Term	Meaning in CCR
Capability packet	A scoped candidate or checked result with provenance, evidence, and residual references.
Residual	Machine-readable unresolved work, doubt, missing evidence, or a blocked requirement.
Settlement	The state reached only when every declared settlement gate passes. It is distinct from acceptance.
Candidate-only evidence	Evidence that remains unpromoted because its verifier, scope, authority, baseline, or other obligation is incomplete.
Mission	A bounded workspace containing a target, baseline, authority envelope, packets, tasks, residuals, and reports.
Workcell	A staged independent-proposal, critique, revision, verification, and integration process.
Correlation group	A provenance grouping used to prevent repeated output from one source from counting as independent support.
Fencing token	A monotonically increasing lease token that prevents a stale worker from overwriting reclaimed task state.
Idempotency key	A key allowing a task-completion request to be retried without duplicating its committed effect.
Resource envelope	The declared compute, communication, verification, time, or other resource constraints used in a comparison.
Resource-matched baseline	A comparison whose baseline and collective candidate use equivalent declared resource envelopes.
ASI-proxy acceleration	Protocol-relative improvement in checked capability formation under a declared finite measurement design; not a real-ASI claim.
Provider	An optional external checker or integration route that contributes evidence under an explicit boundary.
PIC	Percolation Inversion Compiler, an optional provider for finite checking and phase diagnostics. PIC output is evidence-only in CCR.
Preflight	A check that a proposed operation satisfies defined readiness and policy conditions; it is not dispatch.
Dispatch	An explicitly authorized external-effect attempt. It is distinct from planning, preflight, and observation.
Operation approval	A time-limited authorization bound to exact operation parameters and one use.
Signed scoped observation	Independent observation evidence limited to a stated scope and time window; required for physical_outcome_verified=true.
SQLite profile	The default local transactional state profile.
PostgreSQL profile	The multi-process authoritative storage profile with at-least-once worker delivery.