Core meaning
- Capability purpose
- Give a specific structured effort a durable execution home from activation or direct creation through resolution.
- Meaningful outcome
- A project has an inspectable lifecycle, linked work and artifacts, accountable participants, and a resolved or archived disposition.
- Boundaries — includes
- project creation, state changes, context, task and artifact links, progress, pause/resume, completion, cancellation, and execution history.
- Boundaries — excludes
- authoring the source plan, defining reusable routines, performing every linked task, and storing outputs without provenance.
- Terms and concepts
- A
project is a one-off execution container, not a generic topic folder or task list.
Interaction Contract MLEs
Maintain project lifecycle
- Actor
- An authorized owner, participant, or coordinating agent.
- Command / intent
- Create or advance a bounded one-off effort.
- Current state
- An intended outcome and sufficient project context exist.
- Policies / invariants
- Project state is canonical outside chat wrappers; linked work retains its own identity; completion or cancellation is explicit; source plan and produced results remain traceable where present.
- Transition
- Create or update project context, work links, responsibility, progress, and lifecycle state.
- Result
- A current project record with accountable state and linked execution evidence.
- Events / effects
- State changes may create updates, work starters, results, or History events.
- Unknowns
- Universal project status vocabulary is not fixed.
Rules and defaults
Rules / invariants
- A project must represent a bounded one-off effort.
- A project must not become the sole identity of its tasks or results.
Recommended defaults
- Preserve desired outcome, current state, next action, participants, source plan, and resolution evidence.
Communication MLEs
Material project change
- Purpose
- Surface completion, blocking, cancellation, or owner decision needs.
- Trigger
- A project reaches a material state requiring attention.
- Audience
- Owner and responsible participants.
- Required meaning
- Identify the project, changed state, evidence, and required next action.
- Representative example text
- Example; illustrative, not shipped copy: “The project is blocked pending an owner decision.”
- Possible realizations
- update card, event, project view, or API response.
Unknown / unresolved
- Project sizing and decomposition thresholds remain context-specific.
Statement provenance
| Statement | Semantic class | Evidence status | Source / note |
|---|
| A project is an active one-off execution container rather than a generic folder. | rule/invariant | sourced | B09. |