{"slug":"canonical/18-CANONICAL-GLOSSARY","title":"SpineWorkspace Canonical Glossary — Ubiquitous Language","section":"canonical","sectionLabel":"Canon","status":"canon","type":"document","path":"canonical/18-CANONICAL-GLOSSARY.md","bytes":10775,"description":null,"updated":null,"source":"integratewise/Integratewise-docs-wiki","content":"\n\nThis document freezes the load-bearing vocabulary of the SpineWorkspace operating model. Every\ncanonical document, ADR, gap-register entry and agent response must use these terms with exactly\nthese meanings. See [`01-SPINEWORKSPACE-OPERATING-MODEL.md`](01-SPINEWORKSPACE-OPERATING-MODEL.md)\nfor the integrated model.\n\n## Company, product and surfaces\n\n| Term | Frozen meaning |\n|---|---|\n| **IntegrateWise** | The company and infrastructure platform (`integratewise.ai`). Not the product. |\n| **SpineWorkspace** | The product and shared work environment (`spineworkspace.com`). Not the company. |\n| **Human Workbench** | Primary user-facing operating surface inside SpineWorkspace; role-projected, stable shell, adaptive work. |\n| **AI Workbench** | AI-side operating environment hosting Twin and Spine Agents. The label \"Twin Workbench\" is retired. |\n| **SharedWorkbench** | The canonical, versioned projection contract produced only by the Projection Engine; Canvas and other renderers render it, never own it. |\n| **Platform Console** | Operator/admin surface for the substrate; not a competing daily work destination. |\n\n## Entry, identity and access\n\n| Term | Frozen meaning |\n|---|---|\n| **OneAuth** | The single host-controlled entry and trust boundary: resolves identity, org, workspace, host identity, roles, existing host connections, allowed connector projections, plugins, MCP capabilities, activation policy. Never copies provider credentials. |\n| **Host** | A runtime in which the Workbench is deployed (ChatGPT, web, Slack, Microsoft, embedded, desktop, customer-hosted, marketplace, agent host). Both a rendering environment and an integration context. |\n| **Host-native capability** | A read/action capability exposed by the active host under current user/workspace permissions; availability is `confirmed \\| declared \\| unknown`. |\n| **ConnectionBinding** | Mapping between a host connection, a canonical principal, and an optional IntegrateWise integration. |\n| **Connector projection** | A governed per-workload projection of a host-owned connection (read / sync / search / event / approved-write); carries scopes, approval requirements, retention, classification, rate limits, revocation state. Never a credential copy. |\n| **Managed connector** | An IntegrateWise-owned connector used only as managed completion where host-native capability is absent; consented, scoped, mapping-activated, revocable. |\n\n## Context, memory and state\n\n| Term | Frozen meaning |\n|---|---|\n| **Business Context Spine / Spine Fabric** | The tenant-scoped governed canonical context network — operational truth, work, relationships, decisions, evidence, knowledge, history, organizational memory. Not a database, not an ESB. |\n| **Fortress Spine** | The authoritative persistence layer of the Spine. Never directly exposed to hosts or agents; access is only through governed query/projection/cache paths. |\n| **Spine Cache** | Read-optimized, policy-filtered, LLM-readable projection of the Spine; the default agent read surface; always rebuildable; never truth. |\n| **Organizational Memory** | Durable organization-owned memory that has passed the governed promotion boundary. |\n| **Personal Contextual Memory** | User-bound personal work continuity; private by default; only the owner may cite it. |\n| **AI Continuity Memory** | Twin/agent working continuity across turns, model changes, sessions and handoffs; never canonical truth. |\n| **Spine Network** | The navigable relationship graph beneath the Workbench (entities, source identities, relationships, connections, capabilities, tools, documents, knowledge, memory, signals, decisions, actions). |\n| **Continuity primitives** | Event · Entity · Relationship · Synthesis — the four root object types from which everything else derives. |\n| **State planes** | The eleven separated state boundaries: Business Context Spine, Personal Contextual Memory, AI Continuity Memory, Spine Cache, Knowledge, Blobs, Session Logs, Audit Logs, Sync State, Config State, Ephemeral Runtime. |\n| **Effective Spine** | Mandatory Base Spine ∪ department ∪ industry ∪ role ∪ connector ∪ tenant ∪ contextual expansion — additive only. |\n\n## Work and coordination\n\n| Term | Frozen meaning |\n|---|---|\n| **Work** | The durable unit of human-AI coordination and handoff: work_id, objective, context references, owner, current executor, state, subtasks, evidence, commitments, proposals, authority envelope, capabilities, expected/actual outcome, handoff history, trace IDs. |\n| **Work identity rule** | No participating worker begins meaningful work without a Spine-derived authorized context and Work identity. |\n| **Twin** | The user's contextual, human-facing AI co-worker inside the AI Workbench. One bounded Twin per user. |\n| **Spine Agent** | A governed AI worker with identity, tenant, purpose, owner, delegated authority, scopes, capability access, memory namespace, model profile, risk policy and audit identity; coordinates through shared Work state and evidence. |\n| **Coworker** | The contextual companion between active Workbench use and the Twin: observes active work, gathers context, retrieves information, supports communication. Not a second authority. |\n| **Active Context Bundle** | The assembled, policy-filtered context for one request: actor, host context, entities, relationships, continuity, commitments, signals, decisions, evidence, available actions, policy, completeness level (host-local / partial / canonical). |\n| **Context Package** | The bounded package an agent receives: tenant, work, purpose, entities, state, constraints, authority, allowed capabilities, evidence, freshness, sensitivity, expiry, provenance. |\n| **OODA** | Internal operating grammar (Observe → Orient → Decide → Act); user-facing primitives are Store in Spine / Ask Twin / Assign Twin / Approve Twin Action. |\n\n## Communication\n\n| Term | Frozen meaning |\n|---|---|\n| **Bridge** | The governed communication substrate over which messages, context references, decisions, approvals, handoffs and execution signals move — always attached to Work, carrying authority context and provenance. Many interaction surfaces; one continuity substrate. |\n| **ACP** | Agent Communication Protocol: agent ↔ agent / agent ↔ Twin governed work/context handoff. A transport, never an authority grant. |\n| **MCP** | AI ↔ tool/resource/capability interoperability mechanism. Interoperability only; never authority, never the product identity. |\n| **IW Spine Network MCP** | The hosted outward MCP boundary for external AI surfaces; Gateway-routed; governed proposals, no storage credentials. |\n| **MCP Pool** | The inward tenant registry of approved external MCP servers/tools: runtime registration, routing, sessions, health, isolation. |\n| **Continuity Bridge** | The distribution/access product for external AI hosts (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, MCP clients, embedded apps, SDK/ADK, marketplaces, APIs) — governed context and capability access without making MCP the product. |\n\n## Execution and governance\n\n| Term | Frozen meaning |\n|---|---|\n| **Capability Fabric** | Provider-neutral registry/resolver for how authorized intent can be performed (tool-to-tool, memory, MCP, agent-to-agent, API, local, AI execution, browser, workflow, human). |\n| **Capability** | What may be done: identity, version, category, inputs/outputs, authority scope, risk, evidence requirements, execution/sync modes, idempotency, compensation, observability. Cognitive Capability (understand/reason/generate/propose) is distinct from Tool Capability (read/write/invoke/execute). |\n| **Governance** | The cross-cutting authority boundary. Outcomes: ALLOW · DENY · REQUIRE APPROVAL · DELEGATE / ALLOW WITH BOUNDED AUTHORITY. Confidence never grants authority. |\n| **Hermes** | Coordinator of approved execution: dispatch, retries, timeouts, recovery, evidence capture, verification and reconciliation workflows. Not the AI brain; never owns canonical truth. |\n| **Outcome Event** | An observed provider result — not automatically verified business truth. |\n| **Verification / Reconciliation** | Expected-vs-actual closure determining whether reality changed as intended; execution is complete only after both. |\n| **ContinuityRun** | The traceable lifecycle from intent through context, capability, governance, execution, outcome, verification, reconciliation and rehydration; reconstructable via trace/approval/capability_run/execution/verification/reconciliation/continuity_run IDs. |\n| **Projection Engine** | The sole composer of authorized versioned Workbench/context contracts. `Role × Department × Industry × Connector Category × Active Context × Policy`. |\n| **Triage** | Classifies, links, dedupes, detects conflicts/ambiguity, evaluates materiality/sensitivity/freshness/completeness, stages candidates, routes review. Doctrine: Triage classifies. Governance decides. The Pipeline promotes. Spine owns organizational memory. Twin consumes the governed result. |\n| **Governed Spine Writer** | The only path that commits canonical state, enforcing tenant scope, schema, policy, provenance, evidence, idempotency, atomicity. |\n\n## Retired and superseded vocabulary (never reintroduce)\n\n| Retired term | Status / replacement |\n|---|---|\n| \"Cognitive Twin\" | **Twin**. |\n| \"Digital Twin\" / `DigitalTwin` as product language | **Twin** (the legacy tenant-schema object name may persist in code only). |\n| \"Twin Workbench\" (as a surface label) | **AI Workbench** (ADR-2026-08-31-01); the deck QA tooling scans for it. |\n| \"IQ Hub\" | **Personal** knowledge surfaces + Spine knowledge promotion; derived-intelligence plane per ADR-005. |\n| \"Governor Slack\", \"AI-Relay Gateway\", \"Business OS\" | January 2026 v11.0 marketing pack — superseded (ADR-2026-09-04-01 §F-3). |\n| \"Monolithic AI Orchestrator\" | Separated: Twin (cognition) · model routing · ADK · Capability Fabric · Governance · Hermes. |\n| \"Spine database\" as the product definition | The Spine is a logical contract; physical storage is a deployment ADR. |\n| Direct agent canonical writes; provider success as final truth; blank manually-built workspace as onboarding; MCP as the core data plane | All prohibited — see the twenty canonical laws. |\n| \"Coworker\" as a retired concept | **Restored** as a distinct concept by ADR-2026-09-04-03 (contextual companion; not a second authority). |\n"}