Concepts

Shadway is built on three ideas:

• Agent: the model and instructions behind the work.
• Capability: one thing an agent can do.
• Mandate: one job, with the rules it has to follow.

Everything else builds on these. An approval is a point in a mandate where a person has to decide. Events are the running record of what a mandate did. Evidence is the proof behind what Shadway believes happened. Commitments are promises the agent made or received while doing the job.