Glossary

Glossary

Term	Definition
Assumption	A belief 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. Tracked in coherence/intel/claims.yaml.
Coherence Score	A 0-100 metric measuring governance health.
Decision Owner	The person accountable for a DLR post-merge. Responds to drift signals.
DLR	Decision Ledger Record. Structured document recording what was decided, why, 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. Lives in coherence/drift/.
DriftOps	The correction module. Detects drift, routes patches.
FranOps	The memory module. Protects canon.
Half-Life	The period after which an assumption should be re-validated.
IntelOps	The truth module. Manages claims, assumptions, provenance.
Major PR	A PR requiring a DLR: labeled major, 10+ files, or touches canon/intel/architecture.
Patch PR	A pull request that resolves a drift signal.
Provenance	The chain of evidence supporting a claim.
ReOps	The reasoning module. Records decisions via DLRs.
Why Retrieval	Time for a new person to find why something was built a certain way. Target: ≤ 60s.