Accountability should be visible in the work.
Coworker Systems is designed so consequential work can answer who acted, what authority applied, why a decision was made, what changed, and which result followed.
Simple outside. Exact underneath.
Most work begins with a clear outcome and a plain boundary. When more detail matters, the same work opens into its authority decision, approval, capability versions, result, and supporting evidence.
Illustrative work record · synthetic referencesRecorded
- Requested outcome
- Prepare a weekly plan for review.
- Responsible Coworker
- Personal Assistant, sponsored by the User.
- Authority decision
- Preparation permitted. External sending requires exact approval.
- Policy and capability
- Illustrative: outbound-policy v1.4 · planning.write v2.1.
- Approval reference
- Not required for the draft. A separately identified approval is required before any external send.
- Causal references
- Illustrative: Work Item WK-1042 → Decision DEC-1042-A → Result RES-1042-1.
- Result
- Draft prepared. No external effect occurred.
- Evidence retained
- Illustrative receipt EV-1042 links the request, appointment, applied versions, decision reason, and submitted result.