Durable abilities, independent from any one app.
The library preserves capability meaning extracted from PIOS design sources. Inclusion does not make a capability mandatory for Core, prove an implementation, or establish compatibility.
Retain governed content
Preserve supplied content as a durable governed source object.
Derive content from a retained source
Produce a traceable derivative without erasing source identity.
Allocate retained content to a context
Grant and revoke bounded eligibility for content use.
Assemble governed retrieval context
Select a bounded, explainable context package before consumption.
Consolidate conversation history
Create a provenance-linked compact representation of a conversation range.
Decide a governed proposal
Preserve a suggestion through an authorized decision lifecycle.
Establish a standing rule
Create bounded reusable authority through explicit confirmation.
Apply a standing rule
Evaluate one situation and produce a logged authorized outcome or fallback.
Maintain a personal glossary term
Preserve an owner-specific term, meaning, aliases, relationships, and lifecycle.
Manage an organizing label
Maintain owner-confirmed labels used for organization and filtering.
Detect a candidate glossary term
Identify a possible owner-relevant term without silently accepting it.
Manage AI-assisted label vocabulary
Govern the non-authoritative vocabulary available for machine-applied cues.
Apply an AI-assisted label
Add an attributable, removable soft-semantic cue to an eligible object.
Apply contextual classification
Attach a Role or Mode context to an object with preserved lifecycle history.
Maintain a deliberate knowledge note
Preserve owner-chosen knowledge as a versioned, linkable object.
Maintain owner-authored profile knowledge
Preserve the owner's revisable self-description without treating it as observed inference.
Maintain an evidence-backed profile assertion
Preserve a sourced, confidence-bearing and time-bounded assertion about a profile subject.
Resolve a disputed profile assertion
Produce an owner-authorized, versioned disposition for contradictory profile knowledge.
Apply an action-intent label
Attach a reusable handling intent without executing it.
Invoke a governed action
Execute one declared operation under explicit authority and audit.
Run a background operation
Carry long-running work to a durable terminal result without blocking the initiating surface.
Configure execution policy
Govern which actions may run and when confirmation is required.
Maintain an execution plan
Preserve a reviewable source design without confusing proposed work with execution.
Activate an execution plan
Derive a project or routine from an eligible plan while preserving provenance.
Manage a one-off project
Maintain a bounded structured effort through resolution.
Maintain a reusable routine
Govern repeatable execution structure independently from its runs.
Run a routine instance
Execute one attributable occurrence of a reusable routine.
Manage an actionable task
Maintain one action through context, responsibility, state, and resolution.
Organize a task collection
Group and order tasks without requiring project semantics.
Schedule a contextual reminder
Re-surface an eligible object or message under a governed trigger.
Prepare a context-rich Work Starter
Create a ready-to-start entry point over canonical work.
Order ready work for the current context
Produce an explainable, revisable ordering of eligible work.
Maintain a versioned workflow package
Define a distributable reusable process with an inspectable contract.
Manage an installed workflow
Govern an owner's configured instance of a package version.
Run a governed workflow
Execute one inspectable workflow instance without bypassing domain governance.
Preserve an execution result
Register a produced outcome with provenance to its source execution.
Record a canonical event
Append one idempotent, attributable occurrence to the event spine.
Manage an owner attention item
Surface and resolve an owner-relevant information or response need.
Publish a completed-work record
Create durable, evidence-linked completion records and owner-facing projections.
Compile daily owner History
Produce the primary readable daily account from structured evidence.
Aggregate an owner History period
Compose a higher-period summary from accepted lower-level History.
Navigate time-indexed owner History
Traverse from broad periods to linked updates, events, and originals.
Register a connected source
Govern a recurring external origin and its intake behavior.
Manage an import session
Track one bounded intake event and its terminal outcome.
Govern source promotion
Control staged movement from preservation to mapping, enrichment, and History eligibility.
Screen an ingestion batch
Produce a bounded technical and safety review without granting authority.
Assess ingestion readiness
Determine whether checklist conditions are closed for owner review.
Authorize an ingestion batch
Grant or deny owner authority for one exact manifest and boundary.
Govern an event-type registry
Maintain allowed event semantics, emitters, schemas, and lifecycle effects.
Inspect an operational run record
Explain one run's state, authority, outputs, errors, and evidence without mutation.
Compose a portable Core bundle
Package reconstructable owner state with manifests, provenance, and rebuild instructions.
Compose a source-derived PIOS portability package
Package owner-controlled source material for validation and governed import without claiming prior Core state.
Validate a portability package
Assess package safety, schema, integrity, semantics, ownership, and destination support.
Restore Core state from a bundle
Hydrate accepted state while preserving identity, provenance, and explicit dispositions.
Validate restored Core parity
Verify restored state, protections, provenance, boundaries, and selected behavior.
Maintain a recoverable Core backup
Protect independent recovery copies and preserve their creation, integrity, custody, and retention status.
Govern a Core cutover
Transfer canonical operating authority to a validated destination.
Roll back a Core cutover
Restore the approved prior operating path after an aborted or reversed transition.
Decommission a source Core
Retire the former source after parity acceptance and owner sign-off.
Register an owner-data erasure request
Record bounded erasure intent and immediate exposure controls.
Execute governed data erasure
Delete, expire, or render approved data inaccessible with verifiable dispositions.
Reauthorize a destination connector
Establish new destination-scoped credentials, consent, and sync authority.
Submit a governed content capture
Send selected content and source context through governed intake for an explicit receipt.
Reconcile a pending capture
Resolve unaccepted capture work without silently discarding unique unconfirmed changes.
Manage a guided onboarding journey
Maintain resumable staged progress through an explicit onboarding disposition.
Maintain a personal AI identity
Govern the presentation identity through which a personal AI represents itself.
Configure personal AI interaction preferences
Maintain how a personal AI communicates, explains, proposes, and collaborates.
Prepare an initial owner environment
Produce a reviewable first-use configuration from owner input and explicit defaults.
Authorize first entry
Issue and consume a bounded credential for first access to a prepared environment.
Maintain an owner context Role
Govern a reusable life-context lens and its relationships over time.
Maintain an owner operating Mode
Govern a reusable vocabulary for situational operating context.
Set active personal context
Establish a temporary, provenance-bearing combination of current context dimensions.
Configure a Role's outward intent
Declare a Role's private-only, privately shared, or public representation intent.
Prepare a Role-scoped outward representation
Create a separate traceable representation for possible later outward use.
Detect an observed pattern
Create a non-authoritative recurrence pattern from multiple governed evidence items.
Evaluate an observed pattern lifecycle
Reassess pattern status, strength, evidence eligibility, and temporal state.
Maintain an outcome goal
Preserve a durable longer-horizon desired outcome and its relationships.
Maintain a directional objective
Preserve an active action-oriented direction that can guide planning.
Maintain a success target
Define an observable condition describing what success would look like.
Maintain a measurement definition
Define what and how to measure independently from observations and targets.
Record a metric observation
Preserve one attributable time-scoped measured value or state.
Share a governed outward representation
Deliver or activate a separate representation for a bounded audience under applicable policy and rights.
Publish a governed outward representation
Make an eligible separate representation publicly reachable under governed policy.
Maintain outward access policy
Establish, revise, suspend, or revoke the policy and grants governing access to an outward representation.
Evaluate an outward access request
Decide whether one requester may open an outward representation under current policy.
Govern outward discoverability
Control whether an outward representation may be found beyond a direct reference.
Govern outward usage rights
Declare what human and machine recipients may do after access.
Conduct a structured review
Evaluate a bounded scope and preserve findings, decisions, open loops, and carry-forward outcomes.
Record a reflective assessment
Preserve attributable interpretation, uncertainty, residue, and recommendations over evidence.
Maintain a human contact profile
Preserve an owner-held living profile for another person.
Maintain a contact point
Preserve a typed communication or location coordinate for a person.
Verify control of a contact point
Establish bounded evidence that a subject controls a declared contact point.
Maintain personal relationship context
Preserve how the owner relates to another person or organization over time.
Maintain an agent definition
Preserve the canonical owner-governed definition of a persistent software agent.
Synchronize an agent definition to runtime
Reconcile a canonical definition version with declared runtime targets.
Assign an agent runtime role
Bind an agent runtime to a bounded functional position and responsibility scope.
Select an agent's outward identity
Govern identity presentation and AI disclosure for an outward action or action class.
Conduct an owner-representative conversation
Let an authorized AI representative converse externally within bounded identity, audience, knowledge, and action scope.
Maintain a collaboration channel
Organize durable human-agent discussions without becoming the canonical home of work or knowledge.
Maintain a work-linked discussion thread
Preserve focused discussion and resolution context around a linked subject.
Record an attributed collaboration message
Preserve one communication with true authorship, references, trust metadata, and trigger constraints.
Manage a task-scoped execution workspace
Govern a bounded runtime work area while keeping temporary state separate from canonical outcomes.
Maintain personal conversation history
Preserve continuous source-aware owner conversation history across sessions, contexts, interfaces, and admitted sources.
Maintain an owner access path
Govern a route through which the owner accesses or steers a PIOS system.
Maintain an authorized device-local content cache
Keep permitted local copies available and fresh without making the cache canonical.
Maintain selected content for offline access
Retain explicitly chosen accepted content for a governed offline window.
Manage a personal reading queue
Organize retained reading material through unread, saved, read, archived and removed states.
Estimate operation resource cost
Forecast the resources or internal cost units likely required for a bounded operation.
Reserve an operation resource budget
Hold a bounded internal resource allowance for one authorized operation.
Reconcile operation resource usage
Compare actual resource use with estimates, reservations, budget, and completed scope.
Discover a candidate information source
Identify reviewable source candidates without collecting or registering their content.
Maintain owner implementation documentation
Preserve an owner-readable and editable account of the actual PIOS implementation.
Assess knowledge-layer integrity
Evaluate knowledge for structural, evidence, semantic, lifecycle, and safety defects.
Maintain a personal Meaning record
Preserve a contextual, revisable interpretation of why governed evidence matters to the owner.
Maintain evidence-linked Learning
Preserve a revisable evidence-linked lesson that may help future reasoning.
Govern a derived-representation lifecycle
Register and govern source-linked non-canonical representations through replacement, rebuild, revocation, and deletion.
Promote a working artifact to canonical state
Move an accepted temporary output into its designated durable source-of-truth lifecycle.
Supporting documents
- PIOS architecture alignment
- Pilot capability-boundary decisions
- Mobile interoperability CRD candidates — October 8, 2026
- Historical PIOS Global corpus disposition
- Capability Library consistency review
- Pilot validation
- Restricted corpus disposition
- Source coverage
- Capability statement provenance
- PIOS Capability Library project plan
- Restricted realization evidence register
- Shared elements and approved reuse
- Agents and outward identity source context
- Canonical artifact-promotion source context
- Capture, onboarding, and experience source context
- Cognitive Meaning, Learning, and derived-representations source context
- Collaboration and execution-workspace source context
- Conversation history and personal-interfaces source context
- Cost and resource-governance source context
- Device continuity and reading source context
- Direction and success source context
- Import, operations, and portability source context
- Outward exposure and publication source context
- Patterns and learning source context
- People and relationships source context
- Reviews and reflection source context
- Source Context Reference — PIOS Capability Library pilot
- Source discovery and owner-knowledge source context
- Unresolved questions
- Capability Library website publication plan
- PIOS Capability Library work status