| current operating account | A participant-usable set of qualified claims tied to exact operating subjects, commitments, evidence, permissions, decisions, and refresh conditions. It is neither the operating System nor a universal database. |
| subject-state claim | A claim about one exact subject or relation at a stated time or horizon, with scheme, conditions, provenance, uncertainty, and authority. |
| currentness | The condition under which a claim remains usable for a named decision and horizon. Recent timestamps alone do not establish it. |
| provenance | The source, observation, transformation, record, and responsibility facts needed to judge the claim’s receiving use. Provenance does not make the claim true by itself. |
| uncertainty | Missing, estimated, conflicting, stale, or bounded information whose reach can change action. |
| disagreement | Two or more recoverable claims, interpretations, or decisions that cannot yet be used as one result. Visibility of disagreement is compatible with aligned attention. |
| permission and change authority | Separately supported relations governing who may read, write, approve, hold, release, or otherwise use account content. Visibility, responsibility, assignment, and capability imply none of one another. |
| next decision or permissible Work | The decision or Work option currently enabled, blocked, or awaiting a named condition. The account does not perform or authorize it by display. |
| participant view | A use-bounded representation of selected account claims for one participant action. Several views may coexist when subject and claim correspondence remain recoverable. |
| control representation | A view, loop diagram, dashboard, or control-room display representing selected control structures, relations, rates, or account claims. It establishes none of those facts by appearance. |
| attention-maintenance result | The smallest repaired current account, participant views, gaps, refresh rules, and next-decision returns that let the named participants coordinate. |