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Catalyst Grit: Feature-by-Feature Guide

Use every documented Catalyst Grit feature with sample input and expected output.

ProductCatalyst GritVerified version1.5.0ComponentContext and Constraints, Decision and Research Handoffs, Effort Log, Export, Goal Definition, Goal Workspace, Learning Patterns, Milestones, Progress Measures, Recovery and Rest, Reflection, Review, Setback Records, Strategy Experiments, Support Map, UncertaintyUpdatedJuly 17, 2026Reading time18 minutes
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Catalyst Grit · Technical Reference

Responsible voluntary goals, milestones, effort, context, support, rest, setbacks, strategy experiments, reflection, learning, progress, uncertainty, review, and export.

Audience: product users, administrators, reviewers, and integrators.

Last verified version: 1.5.0

Reading time: 18–30 minutes

Status: Published support documentation.

Purpose

This is the complete documented feature inventory for Catalyst Grit version 1.5.0. Every feature includes sample data, a seven-step use pattern, expected output, and a verification rule. Reverify this article whenever the product release changes.

Prerequisites

  • A clean demonstration workspace
  • The downloadable all-feature CSV or JSON
  • Current product release notes
  • Permission to use each tested feature
  • A reviewer familiar with the product

Sample data

This article uses a fictional Resilient Community Retrofit Program. The files contain one demonstration row for every documented feature, so each capability can be tested without private or production data.

Download CSV feature examples · Download JSON workspace example

Preview

# Feature Sample action Expected result Classification
1 Goal Workspace create GRIT-LEARN-001 a user-controlled goal workspace synthetic-demo
2 Goal Definition define an eight-week goal to complete a reproducible energy analysis a bounded goal with completion criteria synthetic-demo
3 Milestones break the goal into data, calculation, analysis, and briefing steps a milestone plan synthetic-demo
4 Effort Log record a 45-minute analysis session without moral judgment an effort record synthetic-demo
5 Context and Constraints record limited evening availability, data access, and care obligations a context record synthetic-demo

The downloadable files include all 16 feature rows.

Feature-by-feature procedure

1. Goal Workspace

Purpose: Use Goal Workspace within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: create GRIT-LEARN-001.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a user-controlled goal workspace.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

2. Goal Definition

Purpose: Use Goal Definition within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: define an eight-week goal to complete a reproducible energy analysis.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a bounded goal with completion criteria.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

3. Milestones

Purpose: Use Milestones within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: break the goal into data, calculation, analysis, and briefing steps.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a milestone plan.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

4. Effort Log

Purpose: Use Effort Log within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: record a 45-minute analysis session without moral judgment.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: an effort record.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

5. Context and Constraints

Purpose: Use Context and Constraints within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: record limited evening availability, data access, and care obligations.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a context record.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

6. Support Map

Purpose: Use Support Map within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: add a mentor, documentation, and quiet-workspace support.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a support plan.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

7. Recovery and Rest

Purpose: Use Recovery and Rest within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: schedule recovery and pacing.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a sustainable effort plan.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

8. Setback Records

Purpose: Use Setback Records within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: record a missed milestone caused by delayed data access.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a contextual setback record.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

9. Strategy Experiments

Purpose: Use Strategy Experiments within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: compare 25-minute and 50-minute work sessions.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a small learning experiment.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

10. Reflection

Purpose: Use Reflection within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: record what helped, harmed, changed, or remains uncertain.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a qualitative learning entry.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

11. Learning Patterns

Purpose: Use Learning Patterns within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: notice better progress with morning sessions.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: an advisory user-reviewable pattern.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

12. Progress Measures

Purpose: Use Progress Measures within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: track milestones, confidence, wellbeing, support, and learning.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a multidimensional progress view.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

13. Uncertainty

Purpose: Use Uncertainty within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: mark low confidence when records are sparse.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: an uncertainty note.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

14. Review

Purpose: Use Review within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: let the user reject or revise an inaccurate suggestion.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a human-controlled conclusion.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

15. Export

Purpose: Use Export within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: download only selected records.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a consent-aware bundle.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

16. Decision and Research Handoffs

Purpose: Use Decision and Research Handoffs within the governed Catalyst Grit workflow.

Sample action: send a voluntary learning plan to Canvas.

Steps

  1. Open or create the synthetic retrofit workspace.
  2. Select or navigate to this feature.
  3. Enter the matching row from the CSV or JSON sample.
  4. Review required fields, sources, units, permissions, assumptions, and warnings.
  5. Run or save the feature operation.
  6. Compare the result with the expected result below.
  7. Add a review note and preserve the feature state.

Expected result: a scoped handoff receipt.

Verification: The result must preserve the sample feature ID, product version, lifecycle state, provenance, and any domain-specific unit or classification. Failure must return an actionable error without destroying prior state.

Expected output

  • a user-controlled goal workspace
  • a bounded goal with completion criteria
  • a milestone plan
  • an effort record
  • a context record
  • a support plan
  • a sustainable effort plan
  • a contextual setback record
  • a small learning experiment
  • a qualitative learning entry
  • an advisory user-reviewable pattern
  • a multidimensional progress view
  • an uncertainty note
  • a human-controlled conclusion
  • a consent-aware bundle
  • a scoped handoff receipt

Whole-product verification

  • All 16 documented features are present or intentionally permission-restricted.
  • Every feature accepts its synthetic row or explains why it does not apply.
  • Errors preserve saved state and provide a recovery path.
  • Exports and handoffs retain provenance and version identity.
  • No private, confidential, or secret information appears in public output.

Responsible use

Not for diagnosis, psychometrics, hiring, admissions, discipline, surveillance, ranking, or punitive evaluation.

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