This note records the Commitment--Constraint--Maneuverability (CCM) framework: a geometric description of system evolution intended to apply across domains including software systems, biological systems, engineered systems, and physical systems. The framework organizes system evolution through three geometric structures: Commitment Geometry — the accumulated directional consequences of prior irreversible evolution; Constraint Geometry — the admissible region defining operational validity; and Maneuverability Geometry — the set of future trajectories remaining accessible given existing commitments and active constraints. The framework is motivated by the observation that systems with identical scalar condition measures can exhibit different future behavior. The present note proposes that this occurs when scalar measures discard directional information encoded in the commitment and constraint geometry of the system. The mathematical structures employed — viability theory, contractive divergence coordinates, contingent cones, and first-exit formulations — are established objects. The present framework proposes a specific organization and interpretation of these structures as they apply to system identity, persistence, and operational validity across domains and resolution levels. This note is a priority record of the CCM framework in its current form. Domain-specific results, empirical validations, and formal derivations are developed in companion papers, several of which are already available.
Dimitri Cerny (Tue,) studied this question.