Glossary

• AAR

  Agent Alignment Rate

  GO pillar

  Percentage of AI agent outputs that pass acceptance criteria on first attempt, without regeneration or human correction.

  Threshold: ≥ 70 %

• CO

  COmpose

  CO pillar

  The judgment about what to build — human owns architecture; AI implements within it.

• DDL

  Drift Detection Latency

  GO pillar

  Elapsed time between when behavioural drift begins and when it is detected by governance processes.

  Threshold: Trending down

• DE

  DEmonstrate

  DE pillar

  The willingness to stop when what is being built does not match intent — value flows at the speed of validation.

• DO

  DOcument

  DO pillar

  The clarity to say what you mean — specification as command interface for AI agents.

• DoCoDeGo

  DOcument · COmpose · DEmonstrate · GOvern

  Whole framework

  The four pillars in order; also an anagram of "Good Code".

• GO

  GOvern

  GO pillar

  The commitment to stand behind what was built — autonomy with accountability.

• GTR

  Governance Trigger Rate

  GO pillar

  Percentage of delivery cycles that required governance escalation — a kill-switch event, an Intent Review override, or a spec-conflict resolution.

  Threshold: < 10 %

• ICS

  Intent Clarity Score

  DO pillar

  A 0–100 rubric-based score measuring spec quality across completeness, testability, unambiguity, and threat coverage.

  Threshold: ≥ 60 to begin composition

• IRAF

  Intent → Reasoning → Action → Feedback

  DE pillar

  The delivery cycle model used in the DE pillar. Each cycle begins with approved intent, proceeds through agent reasoning, executes a demonstration, and returns feedback to governance and intent.

• RC

  Regeneration Confidence

  CO pillar

  Verified confidence that a system regenerated from an updated spec matches the prior version in all unmodified areas — a checklist of behavioural, integration, and invariant tests.

  Threshold: ≥ 90 % before production

• SDL

  Spec-to-Delivery Latency

  DE pillar

  Elapsed time from specification approval to first production deployment of the specified behaviour.

  Threshold: Trending down

The canonical glossary in the framework repo defines additional terms (Drift, Intent Archaeology, Same-Person Rule, Kill-Switch, Provenance, and others) that appear in the operational practice docs. Those are documented inline on their relevant practice pages.