| Assumption |
A belief the team holds to be true, with an expiry date and half-life. Tracked in coherence/intel/assumptions.yaml. |
| Blast Radius |
The scope of impact if a decision goes wrong. Documented in every DLR. |
| Canon |
Protected institutional memory: mission, architecture, public commitments. Lives in coherence/canon/. |
| Canon Steward |
The person responsible for approving changes to canon files. |
| Claim |
A factual assertion with provenance (source, confidence, timestamp). Tracked in coherence/intel/claims.yaml. |
| Coherence Score |
A 0-100 metric measuring governance health: DLR coverage, assumption currency, drift count, why retrieval time. |
| Decision Owner |
The person accountable for a DLR post-merge. Responds to drift signals related to that decision. |
| DLR |
Decision Ledger Record. A structured document recording what was decided, why, what was traded off, and how to roll back. |
| Drift |
When reality diverges from a recorded decision, assumption, or canon entry. |
| Drift Signal |
A formal record that drift has been detected, with severity and proposed patch. Lives in coherence/drift/. |
| DriftOps |
The module responsible for detecting drift and routing patches. |
| FranOps |
The memory/canon module. Protects institutional knowledge that must survive personnel changes. |
| Half-Life |
The period after which an assumption should be re-validated. |
| IntelOps |
The truth module. Manages claims, assumptions, and provenance. |
| Major PR |
A PR that requires a DLR: labeled major, changes 10+ files, or touches canon/intel/architecture. |
| Patch PR |
A pull request that resolves a drift signal by fixing the root cause. |
| Provenance |
The chain of evidence supporting a claim: who said it, when, based on what. |
| ReOps |
The reasoning module. Records decisions via DLRs. |
| Why Retrieval |
The time it takes a new person to find why something was built a certain way. Target: ≤ 60 seconds. |