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Cephalon Component Docs

This catalog maps the current solution into hand-authored component-level documentation.

These pages explain what each shipped package owns and how it fits into Cephalon. Generated API reference output stays separate under docs/reference/.

See also: Docs hub

Each shipped package carries a maturity label (M0 through M4) and an ownership mode (taxonomy-only / application-managed / cephalon-managed / provider-managed). Read the labels before assuming a package is runtime-ready.

When a component-page maturity label and the maturity audit disagree, the audit is the authoritative truth. When in doubt, follow the cross-reference into the conformance matrix.

Every component page below carries a one-line maturity banner directly under its H1 heading. The banner format is:

> **Maturity:** `Mx` · **Ownership:** <ownership-mode> · **Family:** `<family>` · See [audit](../engine-surface-maturity-audit.md), [matrix](../conformance-matrix.md).

What each field means:

  • Maturity — the package’s current target on the M0-M4 scale. M0 taxonomy-only; M1 catalog/runtime-truth; M2 narrow managed execution; M3 broader managed execution; M4 adoption-ready.
  • Ownership — who actually executes the work: taxonomy-only (no behavior claim), application-managed (consumer code or another runtime), cephalon-managed (the engine itself), or provider-managed (a specific provider companion pack). A package may declare a mixed ownership when one part is engine-owned and another is consumer-owned; in that case the banner spells out the split.
  • Family — one of the 12 shipping families (core-runtime, host-adapter, transport-adapter, behaviors, eventing, agentics, data-and-cdc, event-sourcing, multi-tenancy, audit-and-identity, edge, observability, scaffolding-and-tooling).

The banner is a read-only consolidation of the audit + matrix. When promoting a package’s maturity or splitting its ownership label, update the audit + matrix in the same slice; the per-component banner is regenerated against those sources rather than edited in isolation.