Alignment · The cascade record · Element
Orphans
Work that connects to nothing above it.
The part
What it is
Orphans are not automatically wrong. Some are necessary operational work that was never meant to be strategic, and mislabelling it costs attention.
What matters is that the list is visible. Work with no stated reason for existing tends to persist longest.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.