# Standing intents and future obligations

Status: proposed event-obligation concept, separate from the existing goal extension.
No event matcher or new scheduler is introduced here.

| Request | Appropriate record |
|---|---|
| Do something at a stated time | An authorized scheduled task |
| React when a specific event occurs | A scoped event obligation |
| Improve something over time | An assignment or reviewed aspiration |
| Continue an active bounded outcome | The existing goal/work lifecycle |

Writing any of these in prose does not register a wake mechanism.

## Proposed event record

Identify the owner, authorized action, target scope, trigger, source event,
creation authority, expiry, firing limit, cancellation state and evidence
destination. Verify that a real event-delivery mechanism owns the wake before
promising unattended continuation.

Match and deduplicate within deterministic scope and lifecycle rules. A model may
interpret an event where authorized, but it must not invent missing permission,
expand the audience, or retry an uncertain external effect automatically.

## Delivery and cancellation

Distinguish registered, triggered, delivered, acted upon and completed. A fired
trigger is not proof that the requested action succeeded. Reconcile before
restarting interrupted work; do not duplicate an action merely because its
receipt has not arrived.

Cancellation is durable and explicit. Expiry, cooldown and firing budgets bound
repetition; exact limits are policy decisions rather than universal constants.
Notification delivery does not clear a pause or authorize unrelated work.

Mosaic's native goal extension has its own process-incarnation behavior and
supported waits. This concept must integrate with that ownership instead of
introducing a second goal loop. The operator can still use manual reconciliation
when no authorized automatic wake exists.

ACT-C10 tests classification and honest wake claims. Runtime tests must cover
scope, duplicate events, expiry, cancellation and restart recovery.
See [state awareness](session-state.md) and
[goal extension](../../extensions/goal/README.md).