Reliable by Design · 05.05
Objectives & Acceptance Checks
How a run-scoped Objective declares the acceptance checks that define done, verified against real outputs rather than a self-report.
Objectives
Declaring what 'done' means before you run
agentis.workflow.scope attaches a run-scoped Objective to a workflow — the acceptance checks that will be evaluated after the run settles. This is what gives the SWIFT verdict engine something concrete to probe: without a declared Objective, "did this work" has no answer beyond topology. With one, it has a real, checkable one.
"Goal" is deliberately reserved for a future, longer-lived agent/app tier. A run-scoped intent is always called an Objective in Agentis — not because the words differ much, but because the platform never wants the two concepts to blur.
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The Execution Model: Ticks, Ready Queue & Waiting Inputs
Inside WorkflowEngine: the ReadyQueue, the WaitingInputBuffer, and what happens on every tick from dispatch to snapshot.
EngineTicks
Cognitive Looping: Converge & Pursue
Converge iterates a cohort sub-graph until a continuation policy stops it; Pursue is converge with ASSESS and REFLECT turned on.
ConvergePursue