Governance

Who may act at SMI and the trust shape CORA applies. This is CORA's governance design landing on the beamline, not a description of the beamline's current controls authority.

People and agents are facility principals at the NSLS-II Site; on the beamline they surface through the actions they take. The human roster is not known from the profile collection (GOV-1), so the principals are the design shape, not a registered list.

Who acts

CORA brings its own Access model: a small set of facility roles (operator, beamline scientist, safety reviewer, and the autonomous-agent and service principals) scoped at the NSLS-II Site. An SMI beamtime is run by an operator or beamline scientist Actor; a safety reviewer holds the clearance authority.

The trust boundary

CORA's Trust BC (Zone, Conduit, Policy) gates every command by who is acting and what the beamline state allows: who may start an acquisition, change the camera length or grazing angle, run an in-situ environment program, override a caution, or commit a calibration. This authority is CORA's own, expressed per Actor, not inherited from the beamline's controls layer. The NSLS-II proposal and cycle are a fact CORA's Campaign uses for custody.

In-situ studies and time series

SMI's soft-matter science often follows a sample as it changes: a film drying under a blade coater, a polymer responding to humidity or a temperature ramp. Those are time series under an in-situ environment program, where CORA's custody and trust shapes earn their keep, holding the gated acquisition while the trust boundary bounds what may change mid-series and who may intervene. If an autonomous Agent were added to steer such a study (adjust the environment, decide when enough frames are collected), it would be a facility principal scoped at the Site, governed by the same trust boundary, with each choice recorded as a Decision. None is declared yet.