Glossary
Terms we use
- Ontology
- A model of the things a business cares about and how they relate, with agreed definitions.
- Harness
- The governed layer an agent runs inside. It supplies meaning, constraints, authority and a path to act.
- Rule as data
- A policy stored as a record with severity, threshold, owner, effective date and reason, rather than hard-coded.
- BLOCK
- A rule result that stops an action before anything changes.
- WARN
- A rule result that lets the action proceed with a visible flag.
- Dry run
- A preview of what an action would change and which rules would fire, without writing.
- Steward
- The named person who owns a rule and approves changes to it.
- Action engine
- The component that runs requests through checks, approval, execution and audit.
- Semantic layer
- Business-term definitions of metrics and dimensions that queries use consistently.
- Hash-chained audit
- A log where each record includes a hash of the one before, so edits to history are detectable.
- Learning loop
- The process that turns overrides and near misses into proposed rule changes for steward review.