Agents are events. The Workplace is the state.

PLATE 1 · ORTHOGONAL REGIONS

One region keeps history. It is not the provider’s.

The provider may remember the session. The Workplace must preserve owned context.

PLATE 2 · SHARED TERMS

Responsibilities first. Product nouns stay in Profiles.

Open Workplace shares only the terms needed to recover ownership, provenance and authority. Home, Member, Desk, Room, Meeting, Equipment, Site and Route belong to the Endroit Profile, not this model.

Workplace

A declared durable boundary within which owned context and relationships can be resolved.

responsibility boundary

Workspace

An execution or editing scope; it may provide evidence but does not establish a Workplace.

responsibility execution scope

Profile

A versioned mapping from shared responsibilities to one implementation.

responsibility implementation

Source

Content declared authoritative by an identified owner for one responsibility.

responsibility authority

Projection

A rebuildable representation derived from Sources for a consumer.

responsibility presentation

Material

Addressable content whose owner and durable state can be determined.

responsibility durability

Relationship

A declared connection to another authority without transferred ownership or permission.

responsibility reach

Resolved Workplace Context

The objective-bounded result containing relevant Sources, Material, Relationships, limits and conflicts.

responsibility orientation

Provenance

Information sufficient to recover a claim’s Source and correction owner.

responsibility traceability

Authority

The right to establish a claim or authorize an effect; access alone is not authority.

responsibility consent

PLATE 3 · INDEPENDENT SEMANTICS

Durability is a statechart. Acceptance and delivery are not states.

Execution produces candidates outside durable truth. Retain and archive change Material durability; acceptance records judgment on a revision, completion evaluates a contract, and delivery reports an external observation.

• Acknowledgement, praise or continued discussion is not a durable transition.
• Acceptance concerns one exact revision; it does not change Material durability.
• Completion is relative to a contract and evidence, never a final boolean.
• An external effect is reported from observation, not intention.

durability

ephemeral · retained · archived · Whether Material persists in an owner’s set.

currentness

current · superseded · withdrawn · Whether a claim is current for its owner.

acceptance

exact revision + human authority · A recorded human judgment, not publication or completion.

completion

contract + exact revision + evidence · Relative to a contract; invalidated when the revision changes.

external effect

intended · attempted · partial · failed · observed · Delivery is an observation, never a Material state.

PLATE 4 · EXECUTION EVENTS

Switch the executor. Resolve the same Workplace.

PLATE 5 · CONTAINMENT ≠ OWNERSHIP

Drawn inside. Owned outside.

PLATE 6 · ORIENTATION

An honest agent has four answers.

candidate

Evidence suggests a boundary; no valid declaration establishes it.

resolved

Relevant owners, Sources and authority are established for the objective.

degraded

Static authority stays clear while optional machinery is unavailable.

ambiguous

Conflicting or missing authority prevents safe interpretation.

Explicit limits beat guessed owners.

PLATE 7 · PROFILES

Shared responsibilities. Concrete bindings.

A Profile owns vocabulary, discovery, schemas and projections. Inspect the bindings implemented by the qualified local Endroit release candidate forendroit/0.10 targeting open-workplace/0.2-draft:

Home, Member, Desk, Room, Meeting, Equipment, Site, Route and Work Resolution remain Endroit extensions, not normative behavior in open-workplace/0.2-draft. With only one observed Profile, cross-Profile conformance remains unproven. This local candidate is not yet published or deployed.

PLATE 8 · SCOPE

The chart has no motor.

The protocol governs interpretation. It does not:

• prescribe a universal object ontology
• grant host permissions or human consent
• execute tools or control a model
• select a storage engine or repository layout
• create a security boundary
• provide automatic memory or write isolation
• define a Profile registry, adapter API or universal schema
• certify implementations or claim cross-Profile conformance

Runtimes, editors, repositories and providers keep their own authority. They can participate precisely because none of them is asked to become the source of truth.

PLATE 9 · REFERENCES

Open Workplace defines shared responsibilities. Profiles give them concrete form.

• [PROPOSAL]
  Workplace-first · the Proposal

  Why the workplace, not the agent, should carry continuity.

• [PROTOCOL]
  Open Workplace Protocol, Draft 0.2

  The experimental responsibility contract, exposed as Site-owned Markdown and rendered for reading.

• [SOURCE]
  open-workplace/open-workplace

  The Site-owned model, Proposal and Protocol sources. CC BY 4.0.

• [ENDROIT]
  Endroit · the first observed Profile

  The qualified local endroit/0.10 release candidate implements this concrete local-first Profile, but is not yet published or deployed; it does not prove cross-Profile conformance.