Glossary

Key terms used throughout the ACM documentation.

Term	Definition
ACM	Agentic Contract Model — the specification governing planning, execution, and governance contracts.
Context Packet	Immutable snapshot of facts, augmentations, and provenance used for planning.
Capability Map	Catalog of system-guaranteed capabilities, each with schemas and invariants.
Task Spec	Execution contract for a task, including policy/verification hooks and tool bindings.
Decision Ledger	Append-only log capturing planner, runtime, policy, and verification events.
Replay Bundle	Archive of artifacts sufficient to reproduce or audit an execution.
Nucleus	Deterministic LLM gateway used by planners to generate plans.
Policy Hook	Externalized rule evaluation invoked before/after task execution.
Verification Hook	Post-task assertion ensuring acceptance criteria are satisfied.
Capability Drift	Scenario where planner references a capability version not deployed in runtime; detected via registries.