Terminology

Project reality — current measured or explicitly recorded project state.

Finding — evidence-bearing detector output with identity, location, severity, and limitations.

Work item — a durable requested change, bug, feature, decision, or spec delta.

Checkpoint — saved indexed project state used for comparison or resumption; not a Git commit.

Specbook — layered, Git-reviewable Markdown describing intended behavior and its evidence links.

Library — reusable research, decisions, patterns, and context linked to project artifacts.

Routine definition — a versioned graph of actions and edges. A draft does not run.

Run — one execution of a published routine version.

Receipt — durable evidence that a routine step dispatched and what result it produced.

Projection — the subset and presentation of internal capabilities exposed to a particular host or interface.