# CoreAI Functional Specifications

## Purpose

This document defines the initial functional scope of CoreAI v1.

## Core Functions

### Document Project Knowledge

CoreAI must provide a clear place for foundations, architecture, specifications, models, roadmap, and domain notes.

### Describe Context

CoreAI must describe important files through manifests containing identity, type, visibility, trust, source path, tags, and relationships.

### Compose Context

CoreAI must support bundles that group documents and assets for a specific purpose.

### Publish Context

CoreAI must support exports that are readable by humans and usable by AI systems.

### Preserve State

CoreAI must support snapshots that capture runtime or domain state at a point in time.

### Support Forensic Review

CoreAI must support timelines and evidence references so later analysis can understand what happened, when, and why.

## User Outcomes

- A maintainer can understand the project without hidden tooling.
- A developer can onboard from documentation alone.
- An AI system can receive scoped context instead of arbitrary repository dumps.
- An auditor can trace context, evidence, and publication decisions.

## Non-Goals

CoreAI v1 does not provide a complete runtime implementation, UI, workflow engine, or autonomous execution system.