# Glossary Canonical HTML: https://spoolis.com/docs/glossary. This page is also available in machine-readable Markdown. The words Spoolis uses for acceptance policies, verdicts, receipts, corrections, and the lifecycle around them, each defined once. ## Terms Spool: A versioned acceptance policy governing a piece of work: what counts, what evidence matters, and who has authority to judge. Outcome: What actually counted against a Spool: which units were accepted, rejected, or uncertain, and what was earned. Outcome Receipt: The signed, portable record of an Outcome. Acceptance criteria: The conditions in a Spool, each mandatory or optional, each with a named verifier. Bring your own judge: The agreement names who decides each condition. Committed amount: The maximum the agreement allows to be earned. Earned amount: What the accepted work is worth under the earning rule, never more than the committed amount. Unitized work: Work delivered as countable units where each unit gets its own verdict. Uncertain: A verdict that says the question could not be resolved under the declared agreement. Acceptance state: Where a receipt sits in its lifecycle from a consumer's point of view. Review window: The period after issuance during which a named party can dispute the receipt. Supersession: Correction without rewriting history. Reconciliation statement: A consumer-side view of one receipt. Booking record: One flat row per receipt for accounts payable, an ERP, or a spreadsheet. Evidence provenance: Where evidence came from, how it was captured, and when. Acceptance authority: Who authored the policy, whether it was mutually agreed, and who accepted or acknowledged it. Acceptance infrastructure: The machinery around a verdict offered as shared infrastructure rather than rebuilt inside every product.