Enum VerbCategory 

pub enum VerbCategory {
    Assertive,
    Directive,
    Commissive,
    Declaration,
}

Illocutionary force classification for a verb handler.

Follows Searle’s five speech-act categories (1976). Every Visibility::Verb handler in the MCP surface MUST carry a category. Subhandler entries may use the category of their parent verb or Assertive as a sensible default.

The category is a documentation / introspection tag. It is NOT used for permission checking. It is one input — never the sole proof — to two narrow, sanctioned runtime decisions, both in khive-runtime’s VerbRegistry:

• admission_degrade_safe treats Assertive as a necessary condition for letting a dispatch’s own audit row degrade under transient admission pressure, combined with an explicit per-verb allowlist.
• is_retry_safe_after_frame_omission treats Assertive as a necessary condition for telling a caller that a response lost to the MCP daemon’s frame budget is safe to re-issue, combined with an explicit exclusion list.

Both combine the category with an audited list rather than trusting it alone, because several Assertive handlers schedule their own persisted or accounting-bearing side effect on every dispatch (memory.recall’s serve ledger, search’s SearchExecuted telemetry) that the speech-act classification cannot see.

Variants

Assertive

Speaker represents a state of affairs — retrieves and presents facts. Examples: get, list, search, recall.

Directive

Speaker attempts to get the hearer to do something. Examples: assign, transition.

Commissive

Speaker commits to a persistent change. Examples: create, remember, link, send.

Declaration

Speaker changes institutional status by fiat. Examples: update, delete, merge, complete.

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for VerbCategory

fn clone(&self) -> VerbCategory

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Copy for VerbCategory

impl Debug for VerbCategory

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result<(), Error>

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Eq for VerbCategory

impl PartialEq for VerbCategory

fn eq(&self, other: &VerbCategory) -> bool

Equality operator ==.

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Inequality operator !=.

impl StructuralPartialEq for VerbCategory