Glossary

This glossary groups the core terms that define how matic models organizations, agents, work, memory, governance, and runtime infrastructure. It matters because the same primitives appear across the ontology, schemas, decomposition contracts, and golden simulations, so a precise shared vocabulary is necessary to reason about the system correctly. Use this section to align on canonical meanings before reading deeper reference or implementation material.

Venture Primitives

Defines the top-level operating entities in matic, including orgs, charters, projects, teams, goals, baselines, and decisions. More

Actor Model

Covers persistent actors in matic, including agents, archetypes, probes, persons, onboarding, lifecycle states, and response ownership. More

Work Model

Explains how inbound signals become activations, tasks, work items, runs, artifacts, and delivery outcomes. More

Knowledge And Memory

Distinguishes mutable memory, append-only experience, immutable library assets, skills, and archetype capture. More

Governance And Safety

Defines policies, guardrails, HITL checkpoints, audit records, budgets, ledgers, and risk controls that constrain execution. More

Scheduling And Coordination

Describes routines, callbacks, feeds, calendars, handoffs, delegation, review flows, and other coordination mechanics across agents and teams. More

Infrastructure

Covers the daemon, CLI and IPC surfaces, agent-runtime adapters, MCP integration, channels, plugins, worktrees, and other platform-level runtime terms. More