Glossary¶
Plain-English definitions for the terms used across this site. Every entry is written to stand on its own; where a full page exists, a "More" link goes deeper.
Agentforce — Salesforce's platform for building and running AI agents.
Architecture Decision Record (ADR) — A software-engineering classic: a short record of a consequential decision and its reasoning. In Rosetta, ADRs live in the knowledge graph attached to the patterns they govern, are earned through review gates rather than written directly, and are enforced through review gates — an agent that proposes to work around a governed decision is flagged and blocked from promotion. More: Borrowed from software engineering.
Data foundation — The organized, trustworthy data layer an AI agent depends on: where the data lives, how it is unified, and whether it can be relied on to answer a real question correctly.
Decision trace — A record of a decision made during a project: what was decided, what the situation was at the time, what alternatives were considered, and why the chosen path won — so anyone can later see not just what was built but why. More: Governance as trust.
Digital twin — A living model of a customer engagement: what the customer wants, what already exists, what has been decided so far, and what remains unknown. It replaces knowledge scattered across slide decks, chat threads, and people's memories with one governed, queryable picture. More: The digital twin.
Engagement — The full arc of work between a delivery team and a customer, from the first discovery conversation to a running system. In Rosetta the engagement — not any single document or meeting — is the unit everything else attaches to.
Governance gate / maturity ladder — A governance gate is a checkpoint that a piece of knowledge or a plan must pass before it is trusted more widely; the maturity ladder is the ordered series of those gates, recording how far each piece of knowledge has climbed toward trust. More: Governance as trust.
Governed intent compilation — The discipline of translating what a business wants into instructions a worker can carry out, with every step of the translation recorded and reviewable. Where a classical compiler produces code for a machine, this discipline produces a governed working environment for a worker. More: The big idea.
Knowledge gap — A question the engagement cannot yet answer — something the team knows it does not know, written down rather than papered over. Naming gaps explicitly is what keeps a delivery plan honest. More: The digital twin.
Operator (and operator-agnosticism) — The worker who carries out a unit of work — a person or an AI. Operator-agnosticism means the work is specified well enough that the same governed environment serves either one: who shows up can change without the intent changing. More: The big idea.
Provenance — Where a piece of knowledge came from and how it got here: its source, its history, and every hand it passed through — so a recommendation can be checked instead of taken on faith. More: Governance as trust.
Spec Manifest — The governed, auditable artifact that carries a project's business intent intact from the first executive conversation to production configuration. Think of it as an intent contract: versionable, authorizable, compilable, executable, and auditable. More: The Spec Manifest.
Synthetic community of practice — Accumulated, governed delivery knowledge made available in every conversation, playing the role a seasoned peer community would play for a technology too new to have grown one.
System of Intent — A system whose job is to capture what the business wants and keep that statement authoritative, current, and connected to what actually gets built — much as a system of record does for data. Rosetta is a System of Intent for enterprise AI.
Trailblazer — The Salesforce community's name for its practitioners: the admins, developers, architects, and consultants who build careers and businesses on the platform. More: Who it serves.
Virtual employee — An AI agent doing a defined job inside an organization, held to the same expectations a person in that seat would be: clear instructions, defined scope, and an auditable record of its work. More: Virtual Employee Economics.
Work package — A unit of work small and specific enough to hand to one operator — human or virtual — with its purpose, inputs, and acceptance criteria stated up front. Work packages are what a delivery plan ultimately breaks down into. More: The Spec Manifest.
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