[Report] WS-Taxonomy & Landscape – August 2026

[julianna-ciq]

Prepared by @julianna-ciq

Summary

• Adds the August 2026 monthly report for the Taxonomy & Landscape Workstream.
• Records three terminology-review syncs covering 53 terms and the 31 August pull request review session.
• Notes that Leonardo Galesky will begin representing Agentic Commerce in addition to Identity & Trust.
• Updates the reporting index with the August report.

Reporting scope

• The 3 August sync was included in the July report and is excluded from the August review totals.
• The August totals cover the 10, 17 and 24 August terminology-review syncs: 53 terms reviewed, 37 kept, 15 culled and 1 held for debate.
• The 31 August session reviewed Define human in the loop #40, Define Identity & Trust terms #42, Define meta-harness #48 and Initial set of terms from Workflow & Process Integration Group. #55. The group discussed definitions and recorded comments. No pull requests merged during the session.
• The goal for the 14 September meeting is to vote on approving and merging those four pull requests.

Validation

• git diff --check
• Review totals verified against the dated meeting discussion entries in the terminology spreadsheet.

[maniksurtani]

Assigning to @southpolesteve