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#3329 Design record: behavior is the product term for models, with model kept working

Opened by stack72 · 10/12/2026· Shipped 10/13/2026

Summary

Record the decision to make behavior the product term for models, so later issues in the series have one place to point at.

Scope

  • Rename design/primitives/models.md to design/primitives/behaviors.md, and update the primitive list in design/README.md, design/architecture.md and every design/ link to the old file.
  • Replace the paragraph added in swamp-club#3265 that says behavior is "not a primitive" with the glossary, the compatibility rule and the list of unchanged contracts below.
  • Use behavior terminology in design/ prose, keeping model wherever it names a stored contract (YAML field, JSON key, error code, audit action, directory).

No code changes.

Direction

behavior replaces model as the product term wherever people or agents read it. swamp-club#3265 shipped swamp behavior run (alias behaviour) as a CLI word only; this series takes the term product-wide.

Glossary: model → behavior, model definition → behavior definition, model type → behavior type, model output → behavior output. "method" stays: swamp behavior run <behavior> <method>.

Compatibility rule (applies to every issue in the series)

The existing system MUST NOT regress. Every change is additive: behavior is the preferred spelling, and every model spelling and stored format keeps working exactly as today.

Unchanged: the models/ directory and .swamp/ layout, JSON output keys and error codes (model_not_found, model_id, ...), audit action names as stored (model.method.run, ...), serve protocol, CEL model.*, libswamp and domain class names, log categories. Writers keep emitting the old form of any stored format.

No-regress gates: swamp-uat passes unchanged (new UAT tests are only added, tracked separately); legacy commands give byte-identical output and exit codes on the released binary vs the branch binary in log and JSON mode; every new test is red-checked against main.

Series

  1. Design record — the glossary and compatibility rules in design/ 2a. Factory refactor of the model command tree, no visible change 2b. The full swamp behavior command tree and behavior wording
  2. Skills and generated agent guidance
  3. Serve dashboard wording
  4. Stored formats accept the behavior spellings alongside model ones
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