Core meaning
- Capability purpose
- Permit suggestions without silently converting inference into accepted truth or authority.
- Meaningful outcome
- A proposal has a durable disposition and traceable relationship to its evidence and any resulting object.
- Boundaries — includes
- creation, rationale, evidence, confidence, decision authority, confirmation, rejection, editing, expiry, supersession, and result linkage.
- Boundaries — excludes
- notification delivery, pattern detection, rule establishment, and executing a standing rule.
- Terms and concepts
- A
proposal is the decision object; an Update or notification is only a presentation channel.
Interaction Contract MLEs
Submit and decide a proposal
- Actor
- A proposer and an authorized decider, which may be different actors.
- Command / intent
- Record a suggestion and decide whether and how it should take effect.
- Current state
- A candidate change, rationale, and available evidence exist without a terminal decision.
- Policies / invariants
- Proposal precedes governed effect; rationale and evidence are captured at creation; only authorized decisions cause effect; rejection and expiry remain in history; resulting objects link to the decision.
- Transition
- Create the pending proposal, expose it for decision, record the disposition, and create or link any approved result.
- Result
- A confirmed, rejected, edited, expired, or superseded proposal with provenance.
- Events / effects
- Confirmation may invoke another governed capability; rejection history may constrain later similar suggestions.
- Unknowns
- A universal similarity policy for consulting rejection history is not established.
Rules and defaults
Rules / invariants
- A durable governed change requires an authorized decision unless existing standing authority covers it.
- Rejection remains recorded even when no reason is supplied.
- The proposal record remains distinct from its presentation.
Recommended defaults
- Expire stale proposals rather than deleting them.
Communication MLEs
Proposal requires decision
- Purpose
- Inform an authorized decider that a proposal awaits action.
- Trigger
- A proposal enters a decision-needed state.
- Audience
- Authorized decider.
- Required meaning
- Identify the proposed change, rationale, evidence or confidence, and available dispositions.
- Representative example text
- Example; illustrative, not shipped copy: “A proposed change is ready for review.”
- Possible realizations
- update feed, inbox item, push, email, agent response, or API event.
Unknown / unresolved
- No publicly confirmed operational realization is currently recorded.
Statement provenance
| Statement | Semantic class | Evidence status | Source / note |
|---|
| Proposal rationale/evidence precedes decision and dispositions persist. | rule/invariant | sourced | Pilot provenance P07. |