Operation behaviour

Use these pages to look up the current selection, ordering, state-change and failure boundary for an operation.

Question	Reference
How do item, object and physical-target selectors differ?	Shared selection and identity
What does installation select, change and leave after failure?	Build
How are installed data tasks selected, ordered and recorded?	Load
How are Tests and Assumptions selected and reported?	Test
How is estate state assessed?	Health
What does Mirror copy, borrow, empty and reset?	Mirror
Which physical items does Wipe empty?	Wipe
How do I stop managing an item without changing it?	Unbind
How are ordinary commands composed?	Workflow
Where does work run and what does a Session reuse?	Session and runtime
What do operation-specific status words mean?	Fault and outcome vocabulary

Exact command syntax is in CLI reference. Current JSON fields are in Machine-readable interfaces. These behaviour pages do not add compatibility guarantees to unversioned representations.