Glossary
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Acceptance gate | A trusted command the controller runs to judge delivery. |
| Admission | The policy decision allowing another attempt or continuation to start. |
| Adopt | Verify and record work finished by hand on a run branch. |
| Allowance | The turns or cost reserved for one worker invocation. |
| Artifact | A managed initiative document with a kind, digest, and revision. |
| Attempt | One effort to deliver a work item, including its continuations. |
| Board | The initiative’s story status file and run evidence links. |
| Ceiling | The maximum total spend admitted by the run policy. |
| Cleanup | Release the run worktree and branch after checking their state. |
| Continuation | Another invocation in the same worker session and attempt. |
| Evidence | Recorded inputs, outputs, events, and verification results for a run. |
| Foundry Home | The per-user directory holding Toolkit caches, workspace state, and run worktrees. |
| Initiative | One named effort with its own stories, board, and documents. |
| Intent | The dashboard’s view of an initiative and the work pursuing the initiative. |
| Land | Record accepted work on the target branch, optionally fast-forwarding the checkout. |
| Machine | The local installation’s persistent identity under Foundry Home. |
| Price list | A committed snapshot of model token rates used to settle cost. |
| Principal | The identity recorded as responsible for an action or approval. |
| Profile | Trusted setup, worker, acceptance, repair, and final commands selected for a run. |
| Project | The shared identity carried by a repository’s project file. |
| Publication root | The committed document directory selected during init. The default is foundry. |
| Repair | A configured write check applied once before acceptance runs again. |
| Report | A saved account of the run’s result and costs when the run settles. |
| Revision | A numbered artifact version linked to its predecessor digest. |
| Run | Execution of a sealed plan over one or more work items. |
| Run branch | The branch e11/run/<runId> holding work performed by a run. |
| Run plan | The immutable work graph, source snapshots, and profile selected before execution. |
| Run policy | The sealed limits and permitted runtimes controlling execution. |
| Settlement | The engine’s recorded charge based on usage and the pinned price list. |
| Skill | A directory containing SKILL.md instructions for a named capability. |
| Storage generation | The operational layout version used by a workspace. |
| Toolkit pin | The version and digest selecting the exact skill and helper payload for a project. |
| Work assignment | The bounded instructions issued to a worker for a work item. |
| Work graph | The work items and dependency edges a run executes. |
| Work item | One unit of deliverable work inside a run. |
| Workspace | One registered checkout or Git worktree of a project. |
| Worktree | A Git working directory sharing repository history with another checkout. |