Glossary
Control plane
Section titled “Control plane”The repository that hosts CAO workflows and policy. It coordinates work across explicitly enrolled target repositories.
Operation
Section titled “Operation”A bounded repository-management capability, implemented by an orchestrator and one or more workers.
Orchestrator
Section titled “Orchestrator”The workflow that discovers, filters, ranks, selects, and dispatches work within resolved policy. An orchestrator does not mutate target repositories directly.
Package
Section titled “Package”A distributable collection of an operation’s workflows, shared dependencies, and manifest.
Safe output
Section titled “Safe output”A declared, bounded way for a workflow to produce an external effect, such as creating an issue or dispatching a worker.
Target repository
Section titled “Target repository”A repository enrolled for an operation. A target can provide data and receive declared safe outputs, but does not run the control plane’s workflows.
Worker
Section titled “Worker”A workflow that receives one selected target and performs one bounded task. Workers revalidate their control envelope and can only narrow the policy they receive.