Specification Map
This appendix identifies the canonical home of the major DCN concepts and prevents later volumes from silently redefining them.
| Concept | Canonical home | Related volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Architectural invariants | Architectural Principles | all |
| Mind and system boundaries | Volume I | V, X, XI |
| KLineTemplate / Episode / Artifact | Volume II | VI, VII, IX |
| CapabilityRequirement | Volume II + Cognitive ABI schema | III, VII, VIII |
| Actum Compute | Volume III | IX, XII |
| Execution/evaluation/promotion Acts | Volume IV | IX, X |
| Cognitive Kernel | Volume V | VII, VIII, XII |
| Agencies and PatchProposal | Volume V | VII, VIII |
| World model and memory | Volume V | VIII, XII |
| Compiler Society | Volume VI | IX, XII |
| Cognitive ABI | Volume VII + executable schemas | VIII–XII |
| Computation attestation | Computation Attestation Profile + schema | VII, X, XII |
| Verifiable inference / proof backends | Verifiable Inference + backend contract | VI, X, XII |
| Programming model | Volume VIII | XII |
| Cognitive Capital economics | Volume IX | I, VI, XIII |
| Trust, authority, security | Volume X | IV, VII, XI |
| Federation | Volume XI | III, VII, X |
| Reference implementation | Volume XII | all implementation-facing volumes |
| Public synthesis | Volume XIII | all |
Normative precedence
When prose conflicts, the following order SHOULD guide editorial resolution:
- Architectural Principles for cross-cutting invariants.
- The volume designated as canonical home above for concept semantics.
- Cognitive ABI and computation-attestation machine-readable schemas for wire structure.
- Later implementation guidance only where it does not redefine higher-level semantics.
A newer document does not automatically supersede an earlier canonical definition unless it explicitly records that change.