--- title: "Objectives" description: "The product → objective → goal tree, episodes, touches, and unplaced sittings." --- The objective tree is what the work was **for**. One table. Display names the depths: - **Product** — root - **Objective** — slice of that product - **Goal** — deeper named slice (depth ≥ 2) This is **not** Type (kind of work). A Goal on this tree is not the old word for Type. ## Where to read it | Place | What you see | |---|---| | Dashboard → **Products** | Each trunk, with cost for the branch | | Dashboard → **Objectives** | Slices. Goals are clickable chips | | `assay objectives` | Tree + window counts | | `assay unplaced` | Sittings with no winning window | Unknown sittings (no episode) are a card / a list. They are not a fake root. ## Episodes An episode is a **range of turns** in one sitting, with one **primary** node. Default: the whole sitting is one episode. Cap 8. No overlap at one version. Split when the sitting **changed job** (mixed). Do not split when one job also hit another product (theme) — use a **touch**. Spend follows the **first** episode at the winning source. Touches never take dollars. ## Touches A touch is an extra edge: this sitting also affected that node. Chips and counts only. Talk does not mint a touch. A write (or a declared scope) must match an **accepted** node that is not already a primary. ## Proposed vs accepted A judge may mint a **proposed** node. Leaves may not hang off a proposal. Accept it before it is a real trunk: ```bash assay declare --accept --objective ``` ## Placement Retrieve-by-write runs on the sweep. It places a sitting when writes already name an accepted node. The labeler (after `assay labelling on`) places **unplaced** sittings using your AI. ```bash assay unplaced assay labelling run assay attribute objectives ``` `unplaced` never calls a judge. It is the dump a labelling sitting reads. Hand place: ```bash assay declare --session --objective ``` See [Labelling](/labelling) and [Framing](/framing).