Vocabulary
Seven terms used in this contract
Small definitions for the ledger, rolling views, and delivery loop.
Use the same word for the same responsibility across your design review.
Outcome
A completed success or failure result declared by your application.
Revision
One version of an outcome. A correction adds the next revision under the same identity.
Generation
A fixed published view. Daily and trajectory generations are different views; use the reference returned by the relevant API.
Checkpoint
The saved reducer state and applied sequence used to resume processing.
Trajectory
Precomputed comparisons: last ten results, and 30- and 90-UTC-day windows.
Delivery obligation
Durable work owed for one eligible generation. It is not proof of a successful delivery.
Verified retrieval
An exact destination record matched at a recorded time. It is not evidence of agent consumption.