Reference
Consultable material: catalogs, checklists, policies, examples, adapter guides, and vocabulary. These are looked up, not read cover-to-cover.
What NOT to put here: conceptual explanations (those go in concepts/) or step-by-step guides (those go in guides/).
Contents
| Document | What it provides |
|---|---|
| canonical-vocabulary.md | → see concepts/ (canonical vocabulary is a concept doc) |
| token-policy.md | Token discipline rules |
| waste-heuristics.md | Heuristics for identifying operational waste |
| effort-escalation-signals.md | Signals to escalate, de-escalate, or stop effort, and their priority order |
| tool-permission-matrix.md | Risk taxonomy, permission decisions, and draft/commit split for model-requested tools |
| runtime-budget-policy.md | Hard limits for turns, tool calls, time, tokens, cost, and retries, with budget profiles |
| prompt-caching-context-cost-strategy.md | Stable/volatile context architecture for cache reuse without losing relevance |
| agent-harness-governance-validation-checklist.md | Deferred phase-5 routine to validate the harness contract and record schema against a real trace |
| resource-aware-next-signals-validation-checklist.md | Deferred phase-5 routine to validate the next-signals watch-list against accumulated real slice evidence |
| harness-expiration-review-checklist.md | Routine for deciding when a harness control should be kept, simplified, or removed |
| planning-depth-profiles.md | Lite / Standard / High-Assurance planning depth |
| launch-kit.md | Public-facing descriptions, taglines, one-pager |
| learnings.md | Durable lessons from AI-assisted work |
| deprecated-thread-centric-language.md | Compatibility vocabulary — terms to phase out |
| inference-pilot-scenarios.md | Recommended scenarios for structured risk inference |
| delivery-mapping-examples.md | Examples of mapping framework concepts across surfaces |
| bootstrap-output-examples.md | Examples of healthy Alpha 7 bootstrap outputs |
| constrained-pilot-review-checklist.md | Review checklist for constrained-adoption pilots |
| coding-safety-non-engineer-checklist.md | Plain-language checklist for reviewing coding scope, evidence, drift, rollback and human merge boundaries |
| resource-aware-pilot-review-checklist.md | Review checklist for resource-aware pilots |
| external-references-execution-patterns.md | External sources evaluated for Execution Pattern Governance and their vocabulary boundary |
| visual-operations-human-review-source-mapping.md | Source mapping rules for Visual Operations human_review fields |
| Agent roles | |
| agent-role-catalog.md | Index of all portable agent roles |
| agent-role-explorer.md | Explorer role spec |
| agent-role-implementer.md | Implementer role spec |
| agent-role-orchestrator.md | Orchestrator role spec |
| agent-role-reviewer.md | Reviewer role spec |
| agent-role-validator.md | Validator role spec |
| Runtime adapters | |
| runtime-adapter-claude-code.md | Claude Code adapter guide |
| runtime-adapter-codex.md | Codex adapter guide |
| runtime-adapter-qwen.md | Qwen adapter guide |
| Hermes Phase -1 | |
| hermes-phase-minus-1-index.md | Navigation index for Hermes Phase -1 artifacts |
| hermes-phase-minus-1-operational-matrix.md | Phase -1 operating gates, thresholds, stop conditions |