info-tech-canon/infospace/agent/global-agent-brief.md

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# Global Agent Brief

This brief summarizes the current canon service surface for agents.

- Infospace slug: `canon`
- Artifact count: 61
- Retrieval index items: 61
- Primary confidence command: `make validate`
- Refresh generated indexes and views with: `make index`
- Refresh agent briefs and interface templates with: `make agent-briefs`

## Useful Commands

- `PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m info_tech_canon inspect`
- `PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m info_tech_canon validate`
- `PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m info_tech_canon graph`
- `PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m info_tech_canon index`
- `PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m info_tech_canon profile validate small-saas`

## Retrieval Entry Points

- `agent/retrieval-index.md`
- `agent/retrieval-index.yaml`
- `agent/retrieval-index.json`
- `agent/briefs/` for per-artifact briefs
- `agent/templates/canon-interface-card.template.yaml`

## Common Distinctions

- **Actor vs Subject vs Principal**: Use actor for the acting entity in a context, subject for the entity a policy evaluates, and principal for the authenticated identity bound to access decisions.
- **Organization Role vs AccessRole vs CARING role**: Organization roles describe responsibility or position; access roles describe permissions; CARING roles classify access-governance needs and analysis.
- **Policy vs Control vs Evidence**: Policy states intent or rule, control implements or enforces that rule, and evidence records why the claim should be trusted.
- **Intent vs Scope vs Purpose**: Intent captures why a producer or consumer exists, scope bounds producer ownership and promises, and purpose captures consumer demand anchored in consumer intent.

## Consumption Notes

- Treat `seeds/` as provenance.
- Treat `infospace/` as the service-consumable canon root.
- Generated files are marked and can be refreshed deterministically.