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+# SCOPE
+
+## One-liner
+
+Orthogonal vocabulary and canonical model for identity-related concepts.
+
+## Core Idea
+
+`identity-canon` is a research and terminology repository. It defines an
+implementation-neutral vocabulary and conceptual model for identity, accounts,
+actors, organizations, tenants, communities, families, agents, relationships,
+and synonymity across IAM, directory, federation, social graph, authorization,
+decentralized identity, and entity-resolution domains.
+
+## In Scope
+
+- Maintain research notes, source summaries, terminology inventories,
+  conflict maps, canonical glossary entries, conceptual model notes, scenario
+  tests, open questions, downstream recommendations, and State Hub workplans.
+- Compare overlapping terms across standards, product documentation, social
+  graph models, authorization systems, and privacy/entity-resolution research.
+- Keep canonical definitions separate from external product mappings.
+- Record decisions, progress, and workplan status through State Hub.
+- Verify changes with markdown review, `git diff --check`, and ADR-001
+  consistency checks.
+
+## Out of Scope
+
+- Implement identity providers, account-management services, provisioning
+  adapters, authorization engines, UI components, CLI commands, databases, or
+  production APIs.
+- Own unrelated adjacent systems or operational identity lifecycle tooling.
+- Make irreversible operational decisions without human approval.
+- Treat draft canon artifacts as finalized schemas before source-note backfill
+  and scenario review.
+
+## Current State
+
+- Status: active research scaffold.
+- The repository is currently documentation-only. It has no package manifest,
+  build system, runtime app, or executable test suite.
+- `IDENTITY-WP-0002` seeded the first terminology, canon, model, scenario,
+  open-question, and downstream recommendation artifacts. The next research
+  pass should backfill individual source notes and revise the draft canon from
+  evidence.
+
+## Getting Oriented
+
+- Start with: INTENT.md
+- Research proposal: ResearchProposal.md
+- Corpus index: research/CorpusIndex.md
+- Draft canon: canon/CanonicalGlossary.md and model/ConceptualModel.md
+- Agent instructions: AGENTS.md
+- Workplans: workplans/