Architecture

Every node, as text

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• HumanactorThe person who wants something changed and who remains accountable for the result.
• RequestartifactThe requirement as written down, before any interpretation.
• AX Harness CorecoreThe vendor-neutral layer that loads context, decides what is permitted, and sequences the work.
• ContextcoreThe instructions, architecture notes and code a role needs in order to work from evidence.
• WorkflowcoreThe lifecycle states a task moves through and the transitions that are permitted between them.
• PolicycoreThe capability vocabulary that says what each role may do, and what nobody may do.
• PlanneragentThe role that turns findings into a bounded, ordered, verifiable plan.
• Backend EngineeragentThe role that implements server-side changes and the tests that cover them.
• Frontend EngineeragentThe role that implements client-side changes, keeping them typed, accessible and responsive.
• Specialist reviewersagentThe database, security, QA and integration roles, none of which may edit the code they judge.
• MCP and toolstoolsThe interface through which a role reaches anything outside its own reasoning.
• ProjectartifactThe repository being changed, with its own declaration, profile and commands.
• Quality gatesqualityThe ordered checks a change must pass, each reporting passed, failed, unavailable or unrun.
• EvalsqualityAssessment of how the agent worked, which application tests cannot measure.
• Human reviewreviewA person deciding whether the change should exist, not merely whether it compiles.
• Pull requestartifactThe proposal others review, and the record of what was decided.