Specification · § 3 · Terminology
Glossary.
Normative terminology for the AXL Reference. Definitions are working-draft and subject to comment through the v1.0 public-comment period.
- Source
- § 3 of the AXL Reference v1.0
- Status
- Working draft
- Agent
- An autonomous decisioning process that operates over a session without per-request human intervention. The Decide pillar (§5.2) is implemented by an agent.
- Agentic Experience Layer (longform)
- The descriptive category phrase. Used as a category name. Not a trademark; free for any party to use.
- ASP — AXL Specification Proposal
- The unit of substantive comment on the specification. Filed as a GitHub issue using the ASP template. Receives a public disposition (accepted, deferred, declined) from the relevant working group.
- Attestation
- A statement by an implementer that their product satisfies a specific conformance level. Self-attested at L1 and L2; verified by axlspec.org at L3.
- AXL (wordmark)
- The three-letter wordmark, owned by Cadence Used to refer to the specification, the certification mark, and the category architecture.
- AXL™ (certification mark)
- The certification mark, owned and administered by axlspec.org. May only be used by vendors with current verified L3 certification, under the trademark policy.
- Buyer's guide
- § 11 of the AXL Reference. The procurement-facing rendering of the specification, providing RFP language, vendor evaluation criteria, and required artifacts.
- Conformance Statement
- A public document filed by an implementer attesting, clause-by-clause, to specific clauses of the specification at L1 or L2.
- Decide
- Pillar 2 of the AXL Reference (§5.2). The autonomous selection of treatment, content, and journey by an agent at request time, on first visit, without rules.
- Editorial board
- The body responsible for publishing the AXL Reference, triaging ASPs, and operating the certification program. The board transitions to multi-stakeholder governance per §12.1.
- Learn
- Pillar 4 of the AXL Reference (§5.4). Continuous, in-session feedback loops with statistical significance reporting and lift measurement.
- L1, L2, L3 — Conformance levels
- Functional, Production, Reference. L1 and L2 are self-attested; L3 is verified by axlspec.org and is the prerequisite for the AXL™ mark.
- Maturity model
- § 9 of the AXL Reference. A five-tier classification of operator capability — Tooled, Coordinated, Decisioned, Agentic, Reference.
- Perceive
- Pillar 1 of the AXL Reference (§5.1). Identity-free behavioral signal collection over the live session.
- Render
- Pillar 3 of the AXL Reference (§5.3). Real-time substitution of page content, copy, and component state — flicker-free, framework-agnostic.
- Required vs. Recommended capability
- Each pillar has Required and Recommended capabilities. L1 conformance requires Required-level across all four pillars; L3 requires Recommended-level across all four.
- Session
- A contiguous sequence of visitor interactions, bounded by a configurable inactivity timeout. Identity-free by default.
- Treatment
- A specific rendering of content, copy, or interaction selected by an agent for a given session.
- Working group
- One of five public-record bodies that evolve the specification — Perceive, Decide, Render, Learn, Governance. See /working-groups.