ADR 0014: User prose says "delegation"; internals may say "recursion"

Status

Accepted

Context

"Suspec recursion" invited marketing caricature (Suspec-inside-Suspec) and distracted from mechanics: deterministic sub-task spawning with merge ordering.

Stakeholders resonate with engineering language (delegating scoped units of work) without losing the DAG mental model.

Decision

Documentation defaults to delegation, sub-orchestration, or Lead Engineer pattern externally. Specifications of the routing graph may still call the mechanism recursive conditioning internally.

Behaviour unchanged — naming only.

Consequences

• Positive: clearer intent for audit/compliance audiences.
• Negative: glossary must clarify synonyms (reference/glossary.md).

Forward note (2026-07-05). The term settled on "delegation"; the glossary carries no recursion↔delegation synonym entry, so this negative consequence is moot in practice.