Poesis Documentation

Welcome to the user documentation for Poesis products.

Poesis builds products that bring systemic governance to organizations — replacing fragmented, manual, and permanently outdated governance practices with a continuous, machine-enforceable governance fabric.

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Solutions

Poesis is layered: the GSM standard, the SIE engine that implements it, domain applications built on top such as ITIP for the IT domain, and SAF to build them. Each solution below groups the products it ships. Delivery language across this site follows the canonical Milestones & Versions page.

ITIP — IT Intelligence Platform

The first domain application built on SIE. ITIP is where all IT profiles converge — architects, developers, ops engineers, project managers, security officers, compliance analysts — to define, govern, and visualize the IT landscape through a single governed source of truth.

• Web Application — the application every IT profile works in
  • Overview — the THINK gap, the Definition–Execution–Observation triad, and DNA governance grammar
  • Getting Started — first steps in the application
  • Features — the capability catalogue
  • General Usage — Directives, Norms, Ascriptions, and Frameworks in practice
  • Usage Scenarios — role-specific workflows per IT profile
  • Rules — governance rules every user must know
• Definition Blackboard Code Sourcer — client pipeline that sources IT artifacts — code, API contracts, infrastructure — into governed GSM definitions on the Definition Blackboard Manager. Documentation in construction.
  • Features — the capability catalogue with milestones

SIE — Systemic Intelligence Engine

The reference implementation of GSM: the engine that hosts governed definitions, enforces their lifecycle, evaluates Norms, and executes Mechanisms.

• Definition Manager — the authoritative API, lifecycle enforcer, and store of every governed GSM Definition. Documentation in construction.
  • Features — the capability catalogue with milestones
• Operator — the GSM Definition runtime for Norms and Mechanisms. Documentation in construction.
  • Features — the capability catalogue with milestones
• Definition Blackboard Manager — collaborative definition-sourcing service with a sealed, byte-stable contribution lifecycle and an append-only audit ledger. Documentation in construction.
  • Features — the capability catalogue with milestones
• Roadmap — engine-level capabilities planned across the SIE products

GSM — the standard

The Generative System Model (GSM) is the vendor-neutral standard for the THINK side of IT — defining and governing systems, the way OpenTelemetry standardized observing them. It turns governance from prose that describes systems into definitions that generate them, and every Poesis product implements it. GSM is at v1.0 — normative content frozen, publication of the document set pending — source-available under BUSL-1.1 and developed as a candidate for contribution as an open standard.

• Specifications — eight primitives, DNA grammar, Archetyping, and the systemic lifecycle. Publication pending — the specification document set is being finalized for release.
• Research Lab — non-normative research into GSM semantics. Current v1.0.0-beta.1.
  • Features — the capability catalogue with milestones
• Ontology — domain, standard, and legal vocabularies sourced into GSM, ready to enforce. Documentation in construction.
  • Features — the capability catalogue with milestones

SAF — Systemic Agentic Framework

A governed, local-first, multi-agent way to run SAFe — today in VS Code / GitHub Copilot, portable to any host the harness adapts to. Portfolio–program–iteration orchestration runs on your own machine, with a human gate at every layer, producing standard SAFe artifacts synchronized through your own git host.

• Overview — the solution, its architecture, and its products
• Quickstart — install and run your first orchestrated PR in under 30 minutes
• Agentic Harness — the deterministic execution core: step resolution, condition checks, artifact validation, journaling
  • Features — the capability catalogue with milestones
• SAFe Agentic Organization — orchestrators, layers, ceremonies, agents, and the filesystem ⇆ central-systems sync
  • Features — the capability catalogue with milestones
• Agentic Workspace — the shared remote workspace for agentic workflow artifacts. Documentation in construction.
  • Features — the capability catalogue with milestones
• SAF SIE Bridge — the client sourcer turning harness-governed execution history into GSM contributions on the Definition Blackboard Manager. Documentation in construction.
  • Features — the capability catalogue with milestones