📖What it means

Two postures toward work. A DOER performs the work itself — writes the code, runs the check, produces the artifact. An ENABLER equips someone else to do the work — builds the tool, defines the process, grants the capability, then steps back and lets the doer act. The distinction guards against the enabler quietly becoming a doer: an agent whose role is enablement should respond to a gap by improving the system that does the work, not by doing the work in its place. Droids are the canonical doers; the architect/admin agents are canonical enablers.

⚖️What it is NOT

The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.

🧭The nuance

Carol: Orion and Albus are enablers by design (Albus's first operating principle); Orion builds and equips the agents rather than substituting for them — recovery of blocked work belongs to Elrond/Merlin/Albus, Orion only reports and retriggers.

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