Maintain an owner operating Mode

Core meaning

Capability purpose: Represent how the owner is operating in a situation without confusing that context with identity, access, or the working mode required by a task.
Meaningful outcome: A versioned operating Mode definition is active, archived, superseded, or rejected.
Boundaries — includes: name, meaning, optional presentation metadata, intended scope, provenance, status, version, archive, and restoration.
Boundaries — excludes: activating a Mode, attaching it to an object, access control, task working-mode requirements, inferred current context, and notification policy.
Terms and concepts: An operating Mode describes the owner's situational state, such as focused, traveling, learning, or recovering; it is normally more transient than a Role.

Actor: The owner or an authorized context-maintenance agent acting through explicit governance.
Command / intent: Define, revise, archive, restore, or supersede an operating Mode.
Current state: An owner/Core context, current Mode vocabulary, and prior definition or proposal exist.
Policies / invariants: Persistent definitions require explicit confirmation and versioned evidence; observation alone does not create a durable Mode; Mode and Role remain distinct; archive preserves historical references.
Transition: Validate the proposed definition, record provenance and owner decision, and create the resulting version or lifecycle event.
Result: An active, archived, restored, rejected, or superseded operating Mode definition.
Events / effects: May make the Mode eligible for active-context selection, contextual classification, retrieval, and scheduling support.
Unknowns: Universal Mode vocabularies and expiry defaults are not established.

A Mode must not be treated as an identity, permission, or task requirement.
Repeated observation may create a proposal but must not silently create a durable Mode definition.

Keep Mode definitions lightweight and let active-context state carry situation-specific timing.

The boundary between a reusable Mode definition and an ephemeral unregistered context value remains profile-specific.

Statement	Semantic class	Evidence status	Source / note
Operating Modes are owner-governed situational context definitions whose durable creation is separate from current activation and inference.	rule/invariant	sourced	D14.