Agent Ontology

Documentation status: guide — see Maturity and evidence.

Core concepts

Agent
Role
Task
Goal
Observation
Memory item
Decision
Action
Tool
Tool call
Context
Layer
Hypothesis
Validation
Trace
Failure journal entry
Risk level
Permission
Workflow

Every agentic event should become part of the conceptual world, either as a validated fact or as a trace/proposal in a provisional layer.