Buffers · The reserve · Element

The placement

Where in the plan it sits.

The part

What it is

Before the commitment date, as a single visible block. Spread across tasks it is absorbed silently and protects nothing.

Where several strands converge, the buffer belongs at the convergence.

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.