Governance · Signal

Governance Candidates

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Concepts that Core Vocabulary terms refer to but which are not themselves defined as terms. Generated automatically from the graph as objective input to governance; each is a candidate to define, alias, or explicitly scope out. This is a signal, not a decision.

Several of these concepts are defined normatively elsewhere in the canonical repository (Lifecycle and Workflow at the Models tier, where State and Event are also defined but are not in this queue; Memory at the Memory tier, where the Definition of Evidence is reserved for a future version, FW-001 and AO-021; Agent, Tool and Evaluation in the AI extension); they are listed here because they are not Core Vocabulary term records.

Governance is the exception: it is a required Core Characteristic of every Object (Meta/Object.md) and is referenced by six term records, yet no document at any tier defines it as a per-Object characteristic; docs/Governance/ and Specification chapter 7 use the word in a different sense, how the Specification itself evolves (see the terminology notes in chapters 4 and 7). The Worked Example discloses the gap and AO-023 records it.

Candidates by reference weight

ConceptStatePriorityReferenced by First introducedReferencing terms
ocom:EvaluationObservedHigh7Identity · META-IDENTITY-01 · 2026-07-20Identity, Metadata, Capability, Contract, Constraint, Ownership, Policy
ocom:GovernanceObservedHigh6Identity · META-IDENTITY-01 · 2026-07-20Identity, Metadata, Reference, Classification, Constraint, Policy
ocom:LifecycleObservedMedium5Object · META-OBJECT-01 · 2026-07-20Object, Identity, Metadata, Constraint, Ownership
ocom:WorkflowObservedMedium3Capability · META-CAPABILITY-01 · 2026-07-20Capability, Contract, Constraint
ocom:AgentObservedLow1Capability · META-CAPABILITY-01 · 2026-07-20Capability
ocom:MemoryObservedLow1Policy · META-POLICY-01 · 2026-07-23Policy
ocom:ToolObservedLow1Capability · META-CAPABILITY-01 · 2026-07-20Capability
Lifecycle: Observed → Review → Proposed → Accepted → Rejected. Everything here is Observed, found by the graph. Nothing advances automatically; an architect promotes a concept deliberately, and only Proposed corresponds to a real AO / Reference Case. Priority is derived purely from how many terms depend on the concept (High ≥ 6 · Medium 3–5 · Low 1–2). Machine record: governance-candidates.json.