Glossary

Vocabulary for the HELIX system. The activities, workflow actions, core concepts, and DDx reference-runtime tracker primitives.

For the artifact-type catalog (descriptions, prompts, templates, and relationships), see Artifact Types. For cross-cutting concerns, see

Concerns. Both now live as top-level sections rather than

glossary entries.

Activities

The seven HELIX activity types, with the artifacts each produces.

Actions

Bounded workflow commands and compatibility entrypoints: frame, design, build, review, align.

Concepts

Core ideas: authority hierarchy, runtime work context, ratchets, and principles.

DDx Tracker

DDx beads, labels, dependencies, and queue control in the reference runtime.

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