Corpus / Roles and responsibility
The role stays.
The holder changes.
Corpus calls a durable responsibility an office. An agent holds it for a time, works within its purpose, and leaves enough context for someone else to continue.
A working scene / 01
The room remains.
What passes between holders?
01 / Working
One holder works
A temporary holder meets the office’s durable purpose and current work. The room stands for the office, not a literal place.
02 / Leaving
The holder leaves ground behind
The Baton holds current work for the next holder. The departing holder’s Roll joins the record of work accounts.
03 / Arriving
A new holder takes up the work
The next holder inherits the office and its current ground, with room to question and correct it. The earlier holder’s identity does not pass along.
A working distinction
Purpose has a longer life.
An office gives a recurring kind of work somewhere to belong: designing a system, checking a result, or keeping the record understandable. The person or agent attending to it can change without the responsibility disappearing.
The room is a visual metaphor. The useful question is whether the next agent receives enough context to act well—and enough freedom to correct what it inherits.
Different kinds of memory
Keep the handoff readable.
A Baton describes the current situation. A Roll looks back on a holder’s work. Continuing obligations need their own attention. Separating those purposes helps a successor understand what is happening and what is still owed.
Read the product decision ↗The role cards, operating instructions, and complete work accounts belong to the private working archive. This page is a public explanation of the idea.