Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖What it means
Two different kinds of inspection. A REVIEW evaluates one specific piece of work before it is accepted: it is tied to a single change (an initiative, a step, a bypass close), performed by an independent evaluator, and its verdict gates that change's progress. An AUDIT examines the standing system, not a single change: it sweeps the estate periodically or after an event for compliance with policies, standards, and coverage (policy adherence, monitoring coverage, architecture conformance) and FILES findings as new work rather than blocking the thing that triggered it. Rule of thumb: a review gates a change; an audit inspects the world and raises requests.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Gate
A review is a judgment on one piece of work; a gate is an automatic check bound to a transition, with no judgment in it.
Not: UAT
A review is the system judging the work; UAT is Ninad judging it, by re-performing it.
🧭The nuance
Carol: Elrond's Initiative Reviewer and the bypass twin review are reviews; the bypass close-audit, Albus's org-health audit, and Themis's compliance sweeps are audits — their findings become new initiatives, they never retro-block the closed work.
🗣️Also called
reviewaudit