Core concepts
The core concepts of an operational ontology in OpenFoundry are straightforward even if implementation details evolve.
Main building blocks
- object types: canonical representations of real-world entities
- properties: the fields that describe those entities
- link types: explicit relationships between entity types
- actions: controlled ways to modify or enrich operational state
- functions: code-backed logic attached to operational workflows
- interfaces: reusable semantic contracts across multiple types
Repository signals
These concepts are already visible in the repo:
proto/ontology/object.protoproto/ontology/action.protoproto/ontology/ontology.protoservices/ontology-service- P3 smoke scenarios for semantic and governance flows
Design goal
The ontology should become the layer where data, permissions, automation, and application behavior align around the same business objects.