Poesis
Specifications — Generative System Model.
The core spec — eight primitives, DNA grammar, Archetyping, and the systemic lifecycle.
Why it matters
What Specifications changes for you.
The GSM specification: eight systemic primitives, the DNA governance grammar, Archetyping as the open type system, and systemic lifecycle management — the published artifact every implementation is measured against.
Tools that interoperate, silos that fall.
Architecture, compliance, and quality live today in tools that don’t speak to each other — every integration a bespoke mapping, every team its own silo. The spec’s shared vocabulary and grammar end the mapping: solutions interoperate through the same typed definitions instead of translating each other.
Delivered by Eight systemic primitives · Archetyping · DNA grammar
Lock-in ends where the standard begins.
Definitions authored once are portable across every conforming implementation — you can change tools or vendors without re-authoring your governance, and conformance is testable against the published requirements, not assumed from marketing. The unlock compounds with every vendor that adopts the standard.
Delivered by Eight systemic primitives · Systemic lifecycle management
The governance grammar keeps deepening.
Directives and Norms gain richer modeling as real governance cases demand it — the grammar tracks what governance actually needs, not a frozen v1 shape.
Delivered by Enhanced Directives and Norms model
Built for neutral stewardship.
The spec is maintained as a public, versioned publication — ready for consortium governance such as an OASIS Open Technical Committee — rather than living as vendor documentation. Standards live longest when no single product owns them.
A property of the product — how it is built, not a feature.
Features
What Specifications does.
Eight systemic primitives
Structure, Mechanism, Effector, Receptor, Interaction, Archetype, Directive, Norm — a small, fixed core that composes any system.
DNA grammar
Directives, Norms, and Ascriptions — the three-tempo grammar for how intent becomes an evaluable, bound obligation.
Archetyping
Typed JSON Schema domain schemas that carry vocabulary, grammar, and semantics — meaning travels with the type.
Systemic lifecycle management
A normative state machine governs how every definition is drafted, proposed, approved, activated, deprecated, and retired — accordingly to related dependent definitions.
Enhanced Directives and Norms model
Deepen the DNA governance grammar’s Directive and Norm modeling as real governance cases demand more expressiveness.
Roadmap
- v1.0 ✓ Normative content frozen — Systemic Primitives, DNA grammar, Archetyping, lifecycle (publication of the document set pending)
- v1.1 Enhanced Directives and Norms model
Ordered intent, not delivery commitments or dates — per the canonical Milestones & Versions register.