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This work aims to establish a clear framework for defining operational states and their closures in various systems.

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Operational Closure Specification (OCS): Canonical Core

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This work aims to establish a clear framework for defining operational states and their closures in various systems.
Development of OCS v1.0.0 to define core terms and constraints.
Specification of State, State Transition, Threshold Event, Operational Freeze, and Re-entry State.
Prohibition of implicit states and retroactive validation.
Defined core terms and constraints necessary for operational clarity.
Ensured control over operational states through explicit definitions.
Permitted extensions only through future versioned releases.

Abstract

Operational Closure Specification (OCS) is a normative framework for explicitly defining operational states and their closures in systems where auditability, reversibility control, and non-ambiguous responsibility attribution are required. OCS v1.0.0 defines the canonical core terms and constraints for: State, State Transition, Threshold Event, Operational Freeze, and Re-entry State. The specification forbids implicit states, retroactive validation, and unbounded interpretive extension. Extensions are permitted only through versioned releases. Suggested citation:Omri (2026). Operational Closure Specification (OCS): Canonical Core (Version 1.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18294100

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