GSM — the standard

The Generative System Model (GSM) is the vendor-neutral systemic standard at the foundation of Poesis. It is not a product you deploy — it is the shared model that every Poesis product implements: the SIE engine hosts and enforces it, and domain applications such as ITIP translate it into their domain.

GSM is the vendor-neutral standard for defining systems, as OpenTelemetry is the vendor-neutral standard for observing them. Its generative governance grammar makes system definitions governed, typed, versioned, and machine-evaluable instead of trapping them in prose or proprietary tools.

GSM is at v1.0 — normative content frozen while publication preparation continues — source-available under BUSL-1.1 and developed as a candidate for contribution as an open standard. BUSL-1.1 is a source-available license, not an Open Source license.

What GSM fixes

  • DNA — the generative governance grammar. Every governed concern is expressed as a Directive (strategic intent), a Norm (a tactical, machine-evaluable assertion), and an Ascription (the versioned, lifecycle-managed binding of a definition to its subject).
  • Eight primitives. Structure, Mechanism, Effector, Receptor, Interaction, Archetype, Directive, Norm — a deliberately small, fixed core.
  • Archetypes — the shared semantics. Typed domain schemas that carry meaning (vocabulary, grammar, and constraints) so it travels with the type rather than living in prose.

Products

  • Specifications — the core spec: eight primitives, the DNA generative governance grammar, Archetyping, and the systemic lifecycle, prepared as a standards-track document set (intended home: OASIS Open). Publication pending — the specification document set is being finalized for release.
  • Research Lab — non-normative hypotheses, cases, and open decisions that may inform future GSM Change Proposals. 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

Research published here is part of the technical documentation but is not part of the normative Specification. GSM also has an academic-publication track (a paper and a book); that track remains separate from this documentation site.


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