Project · Agent Work Model

Purpose

Hold stable identity, membership, and policy that WorkSessions pin via a ProjectSnapshot. Projects are not a place to store live runtime.

Name	Target	Kind	Cardinality	Inverse
`snapshots`	ProjectSnapshot	contains	`0..*`	`project` 1
`known_resources`	Resource	observes	`0..*`	`observed_by_projects` 0..*
`work_profiles`	WorkProfile	references	`0..*`	`projects` 0..*

Initial active. Terminal: archived.

activearchived

active → archived — Archiving retains identity and snapshots; it does not delete history.

MUST NOT no-runtime-state: A Project MUST NOT store PIDs, ports, heartbeats, or current run/workspace/conversation pointers.
MUST one-authority: Project policy and membership have exactly one mutable authority, the Project itself.
MUST policy-narrows: Any WorkSession or ResourceBinding under this Project MUST only narrow project policy.
MUST NOT not-a-workspace: A Project MUST NOT be treated as a Workspace or WorkSession.

None.

Workspace: A Workspace is a material working environment, not the durable collaboration scope.
WorkSession: A WorkSession is a bounded episode; a Project outlives many sessions.
repository: A version-control repository may be a Resource bound into work; it is not the Project.
session: Unqualified session is prohibited; it collapses several distinct entities.

A named product effort that several WorkSessions and hosts attach to over months.
An interoperability profile shared by multiple agent systems under one policy.

The identity field is the index of the handle. fields is the exchange shape.

Name	Kind	Type	Portable	Notes
`project_id`	identity	name	True
`display_name`	descriptive	string	True
`policy`	policy	PolicyDocument	True	Policy at the project boundary. Children may only narrow it.
`description`	descriptive	string	True

System	Native term	Fidelity	Notes
`project-interop`	`Project`	partial	Name alignment is likely; treat field-level equivalence as unverified.