---
id: CUST-PRJ-FOER-2026-000001
type: charter
title: "Foerster Capabilities — Project Charter v0.1"
status: active
owners: ["Bernd", "Custodian"]
created: "2026-02-24"
updated: "2026-02-24"
scope:
  domains: ["Foerster Capabilities"]
  sensitivity: internal
tags: ["taxonomy", "systems-theory", "agency", "governance"]
custodian_topic_id: "64418556-3206-457a-ba29-6884b5b12cf3"
domain: foerster_capabilities
---

# Foerster Capabilities — Project Charter v0.1

## Purpose
Create a systems-theoretic taxonomy of computational agency grounded in Foerster’s Non-Trivial Machines, integrating behavior, resources, interaction properties, and governability.

## Problem
Existing capability classifications are fragmented (complexity, architecture, AI tasks, cybernetics, governance/risk). We lack a shared multidimensional map.

## Outcome
A rigorous capability space:
- dimensions such as governability, reliability, adaptivity, reflexivity, autonomy/sovereignty
- operational tests / indicators where possible
- mappings from systems (agents/services/orgs) into the space
- connections to governance and risk controls

## Boundaries (v0.1)
- Establish vocabulary, dimension definitions, and orthogonality discussions.
- Produce diagrams and examples rather than chasing completeness.

## Success criteria (v0.1)
- A paper-grade outline + a stable diagrammatic “map”.
- A small library of example classifications (LLM agent, company process, service).