Governance

Who will act at 8-ID, and the trust shape that will gate it. First cut.

Governance at 8-ID follows the same model as the 2-BM pilot: people and autonomous agents are facility principals at the APS Site, and on the beamline they surface through the actions they take. Their commands are gated by a trust shape (a Zone grouping the beamline's resources, a Conduit binding the surfaces that may issue commands, and Policies that say who may do what).

8-ID is not yet driven by CORA, so this shape is not yet instantiated. The 8-ID operator pool and beamline-scientist assignments are not modelled ahead of confirmation (a placeholder 8-ID Beamline Scientist is carried pending on the APS Site).

What is already settled is the boundary: clearances (the safety forms that must be active to start) are issued at the APS Site, not on the beamline, and the beamline links up to them. 8-ID adds hazard classes beyond the imaging envelope, cryogens at the temperature-controlled sample environments and the user-brought rheometer and robotic sample changer, that an experiment Clearance would carry; those land with the instruments that bring them.

The concrete Zone, Conduit, and Policy instances, and the operator pool, land when the deployment approaches the point where CORA drives 8-ID, following the 2-BM governance shape.