Maintain a success target

Core meaning

Capability purpose: Make success inspectable without confusing the desired condition with current reality or execution activity.
Meaningful outcome: A target exists with a success condition, lifecycle state, provenance, and optional relationship to a goal, objective, project, or other eligible subject.
Boundaries — includes: creation, revision, activation or retirement, success description, subject linkage, provenance, and criteria needed to evaluate achievement.
Boundaries — excludes: defining the underlying goal or objective, defining how observations are measured, recording observations, declaring achievement without evidence, and executing work.
Terms and concepts: A target describes a success condition. It is not a current measured value and does not prove that the condition has been met.

Actor: An authorized owner, planner, or delegated agent.
Command / intent: Define or revise the condition by which success can be recognized.
Current state: An eligible subject or standalone planning need and any existing target state are known.
Policies / invariants: The condition remains distinct from observations and achievement decisions; subject links are explicit; ambiguous or non-observable criteria remain visible; activation does not imply attainment.
Transition: Validate the success condition and scope, persist or revise the target, and update lifecycle and provenance.
Result: An active, inactive, retired, or revised success target with an inspectable condition.
Events / effects: May inform measurement definitions, reviews, and progress projections without changing the linked goal or work state.
Unknowns: Universal evidence thresholds for declaring a target met are not established.

Target state and target achievement are different claims.
A target may be maintained independently or linked to an eligible subject; presentation inside one app does not redefine its identity.

Prefer observable success conditions and explicit scope, time horizon, and evidence expectations where they matter.

The reusable contract for evaluating and reversing target achievement requires a later governance pass.

Statement	Semantic class	Evidence status	Source / note
A target describes measurable or observable success and remains distinct from goals, metrics, and current achievement evidence.	rule/invariant	sourced	F05–F06.