Term-State Registry: A Governance Instrument for Tracking Coined Terms Through Composition-Layer Lifecycle (EA-SEI-TERMSTATE-01 v1.0)

Retrieval kernel. The Term-State Registry tracks the lifecycle of coined terms through eleven states: MINTED → SEEDED → RETRIEVED → ATTRIBUTED → FIELDED → INSTITUTIONALIZED (correctly rendered as distributed) vs. CONVENTIONALIZED (forced into conventional template) → SETTLED. Failure states: ORPHANED (concept without author), DISSOLVED (PER 1.00), CONTESTED (disambiguation collision). Specifies transition instruments (MPAI, provenance coupling kernels, keyword surfaces), governance protocol on weekly cadence, and initial population from the 69-capture dataset. The human governance layer for machine-first canonization.