The objects
beneath the work.
Tehom Primitives are the typed objects every governed system is built from. A record carries its own origin, its boundary, and the proof that backs it — so meaning travels with the data, not in the application around it.
Most systems keep meaning in the application. Tehom keeps it in the record.
When meaning lives in code, every new surface has to re-derive what a thing is, where it came from, and whether it can be trusted. The knowledge erodes at each boundary.
A typed primitive carries that knowledge with it. Its origin, its claim state, its boundary and proof are part of the object — readable by any system that holds it.
That is what makes the substrate transferable. Amar and Or are not separate databases — they are two readings of the same governed records.
Twelve typed primitive families.
Every governed record belongs to one. Together they describe what a thing is, where it came from, what it permits, and what backs it.
Source
Where a record comes from — its authority and system of origin.
View
How a record should be read, and the state of its claim: source-backed, projected, or degraded.
Boundary
What a record permits and forbids — the edge an agent works inside.
Proof
The evidence that backs a claim, and the gates that pass or fail on it.
Review
The judgment a record carries — who reviewed it, and the disposition reached.
Memory
What persists across cycles — the durable trace a record leaves behind.
Seat
The role an actor holds — what a human or agent may review, route, and gate.
Workflow
The route work travels — the lanes, states, and transitions a record moves through.
Artifact
What an agent produces — the output and its lineage back to a Source.
Authority
Who or what may grant, govern, or override — the final say on a record.
Relation
The typed edge between records — how Or remembers what connects to what.
Block
What stops the work — a blocker that must clear before motion resumes.
Every record carries its own envelope.
No matter the family, a typed record reads the same way: where it came from, how it should be read, and the state of its claim. Surfaces render it; none of them own it.