Handbook
Communication and Language Participation Intelligence
Help people express needs and ideas, understand others, participate in meetings and services, and adapt communication across language, culture, medium, and access needs.
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Definition
Help people express needs and ideas, understand others, participate in meetings and services, and adapt communication across language, culture, medium, and access needs.
Coverage role
Communication is required for relationships, work, care, education, public services, and collaboration.
Scope
Included
- intent and audience analysis
- plain language
- listening and clarification
- translation and register adaptation
- meeting facilitation
- negotiation
- accessible communication
Excluded and non-goals
- impersonation
- deceptive persuasion
- covert manipulation
- safety-critical interpreting without qualified review
Boundary rules
- Route to life.communication-language-participation when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.communication-language-participation.frame_communication |
Frame Communication | Identify audience, purpose, relationship, power, medium, language, and access constraints. |
capability.life.communication-language-participation.compose_message |
Compose Message | Produce clear, accurate content with a request, rationale, and next step. |
capability.life.communication-language-participation.listen_and_clarify |
Listen And Clarify | Extract facts, concerns, emotions, questions, commitments, and unresolved issues. |
capability.life.communication-language-participation.adapt_language_register |
Adapt Language Register | Translate or rewrite for proficiency, culture, formality, or age while preserving meaning. |
capability.life.communication-language-participation.facilitate_meeting |
Facilitate Meeting | Build an agenda, participation structure, decision record, and follow-up plan. |
capability.life.communication-language-participation.support_negotiation |
Support Negotiation | Separate positions from interests and formulate transparent boundaries and options. |
capability.life.communication-language-participation.make_accessible |
Make Accessible | Create plain-language, easy-read, structured, captioned, or alternative-format versions. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.communication-language-participation.communication_brief |
brief | Communication Brief for Communication and Language Participation Intelligence: A bounded specification of purpose, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, and success criteria. It supports the pack purpose of help people express needs and ideas, understand others, participate in meetings and services, and adapt communication across language, culture, medium, and access needs. |
artifact.life.communication-language-participation.message_draft |
communication | Message Draft for Communication and Language Participation Intelligence: An audience-appropriate communication artifact with objective, channel, accessibility, approval, and feedback path. It supports the pack purpose of help people express needs and ideas, understand others, participate in meetings and services, and adapt communication across language, culture, medium, and access needs. |
artifact.life.communication-language-participation.dialogue_map |
ledger | Dialogue Map for Communication and Language Participation Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of help people express needs and ideas, understand others, participate in meetings and services, and adapt communication across language, culture, medium, and access needs. |
artifact.life.communication-language-participation.shared_glossary |
reference_schema | Shared Glossary for Communication and Language Participation Intelligence: A versioned reference structure for terms, variables, formats, units, transformations, provenance, and validation. It supports the pack purpose of help people express needs and ideas, understand others, participate in meetings and services, and adapt communication across language, culture, medium, and access needs. |
artifact.life.communication-language-participation.meeting_agenda_and_record |
ledger | Meeting Agenda And Record for Communication and Language Participation Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of help people express needs and ideas, understand others, participate in meetings and services, and adapt communication across language, culture, medium, and access needs. |
artifact.life.communication-language-participation.negotiation_brief |
brief | Negotiation Brief for Communication and Language Participation Intelligence: A bounded specification of purpose, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, and success criteria. It supports the pack purpose of help people express needs and ideas, understand others, participate in meetings and services, and adapt communication across language, culture, medium, and access needs. |
artifact.life.communication-language-participation.accessible_version |
structured_output | Accessible Version for Communication and Language Participation Intelligence: A typed domain output that preserves purpose, context, evidence, assumptions, status, and next action. It supports the pack purpose of help people express needs and ideas, understand others, participate in meetings and services, and adapt communication across language, culture, medium, and access needs. |
artifact.life.communication-language-participation.language_and_register_adaptation_record |
ledger | Language And Register Adaptation Record for Communication and Language Participation Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of help people express needs and ideas, understand others, participate in meetings and services, and adapt communication across language, culture, medium, and access needs. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.communication-language-participation.audience_purpose_context_analysis |
audience-purpose-context analysis | Use when meaning, participation, trust, accessibility, or action depends on adapting a message and confirming shared understanding. | Avoid manipulative framing, false simplicity, disclosure beyond consent, or treating silence and repetition as proof of understanding. |
method.life.communication-language-participation.plain_language_structure |
plain-language structure | Use when meaning, participation, trust, accessibility, or action depends on adapting a message and confirming shared understanding. | Avoid manipulative framing, false simplicity, disclosure beyond consent, or treating silence and repetition as proof of understanding. |
method.life.communication-language-participation.teach_back |
teach-back | Use when meaning, participation, trust, accessibility, or action depends on adapting a message and confirming shared understanding. | Avoid manipulative framing, false simplicity, disclosure beyond consent, or treating silence and repetition as proof of understanding. |
method.life.communication-language-participation.active_listening |
active listening | Use when meaning, participation, trust, accessibility, or action depends on adapting a message and confirming shared understanding. | Avoid manipulative framing, false simplicity, disclosure beyond consent, or treating silence and repetition as proof of understanding. |
method.life.communication-language-participation.interest_based_negotiation |
interest-based negotiation | Use when several people or institutions have different interests, rights, constraints, information, or acceptable outcomes and an agreement or safe boundary is needed. | Avoid where coercion, abuse, incapacity, severe power asymmetry, or non-negotiable safety and rights constraints make ordinary negotiation unsafe. |
method.life.communication-language-participation.multimodal_accessibility |
multimodal accessibility | Use when meaning, participation, trust, accessibility, or action depends on adapting a message and confirming shared understanding. | Avoid manipulative framing, false simplicity, disclosure beyond consent, or treating silence and repetition as proof of understanding. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.communication-language-participation.01_adaptation_preserves_material_meaning |
Adaptation preserves material meaning. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
invariant.life.communication-language-participation.02_persuasion_may_not_hide_material_information_or_exploit_vu |
Persuasion may not hide material information or exploit vulnerability. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
invariant.life.communication-language-participation.03_safety_critical_translation_requires_qualified_review |
Safety-critical translation requires qualified review. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: None
Foundation concepts: general.communication-explanatory, general.semantic-representational, general.collaborative-social, general.cultural-contextual, general.ethical-normative
Life intelligences: life.accessibility-independent-living
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
ec.lifecomp |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | False |
w3c.wcag |
concept_definition, interoperability_or_formal_contract | False |
un.crpd.accessibility |
concept_definition | False |
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: moderate
- Legal, medical, emergency, or other safety-critical communication needing a qualified interpreter or reviewer.
- Any request to send or impersonate without explicit approval.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 7
- Evidence class:
contract: 7 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/communication-language-participation.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7