Glossary¶

Approval Gate¶

An explicit decision point before risky work continues.

The record of what produced an artifact, what it depended on, and what depends on it next.

Bounded unattended progress with explicit autonomy, stop conditions, and receipts.

A harness-by-capability view of what ORCA Framework can safely recommend.

An agent that manages work, routing, or delegation rather than doing every implementation step itself.

A compact summary of a meaningful run, including actions, verification, approvals, and remaining risk.

An agent that performs bounded implementation or analysis work delegated by a controller or user.

A contract for milestone-sized, verifiable long-running work.

The active host or execution environment, such as Codex CLI, Claude Code, or VS Code.

Testing whether a business or product idea should earn a spec and implementation work.

An official recommended default workflow pack for a common use case.

Short for execution receipt. The quick review surface for what a run did and what remains.

The process of choosing the safest reviewed ORCA Framework behavior for the active harness and setup state.

A rollout state where a candidate behavior is observed or compared without becoming the default execution path.

Time, step, retry, or optional cost limits set per workflow stage instead of one giant undifferentiated budget.