core.subchart: a step that runs another chart and waits for it to finish, routing on the outcome that chart finished with (ADR-0004's 2026-08-29 amendment, C1 through C3).

This type names a chart and an invoke type; it never runs either. A subchart is not a new execution mechanism - it is a particular invoke whose handler happens to start a child session, so it stands on the same two-registry seam core.invoke does (ADR-0002 decision 2, statifier-ex ADR-0051).

The child is a reference, never a body

A document is a tree and a chart is a build product of one, so a subchart whose body lived inside the parent would be a second copy of a document that already exists on its own, with its own id, its own revision and its own runs. The child is therefore named by the chart config field and this type declares no body slot at all.

How a child's outcome reaches the parent

Raised events are internal to the session that raises them, so done.outcome.<state id>.<outcome> - the event ADR-0004's outcome amendment gives a block - does not cross an <invoke>. What a parent observes is the completion event and the data the child chose to send with it (SCXML 3.7 and 5.5). C1 fixes the child half: a document compiled for use as a child (StatifierBlocks.Compiler's :child_use option) emits one top-level <final> per root-block outcome, carrying <donedata><param name="outcome" expr="'<outcome>'"/>. C2 fixes this half: the block's state routes done.invoke on _event.data.outcome, one conditioned transition per declared outcome and an unconditioned one last as the default path.

The condition is ===, not ==

Statifier's == against an absent _event.data.outcome is non-boolean and raises a spurious error.execution beside the default arm's routing (statifier-ex st-iz97); === is clean, and an explicit nil donedata reads as null rather than as undefined. So the conditioned transitions are written _event.data.outcome === '<outcome>'. The record fixes the routing, not the operator; this is the campaign's recorded ruling on which operator expresses it.

Which outcomes, and where the author says so

A block type cannot read the document it references - emit/2 is a pure function of its block and its context, and the context deliberately carries no palette and no other document. So the outcomes the referenced chart declares are declared here, in the outcomes config field, one name per line, in the order they should be routed. A subchart that declares none has the one outcome an ordinary block has, done.

The failure outcome error is appended to whatever the author declared, unless they declared it themselves - a child chart may well finish with an outcome it calls error, and then the two are one outcome with one final and one slot rather than two spellings of the same thing.

Every outcome gets a slot, on_error included

An outcome path is a slot, never a port (D13, ADR-0002's amendment A2): every edge in a document is a parent/slot/child relationship, which is the invariant the editor's rendered connectors rest on. So each declared outcome gets one zero_or_one slot, on_<outcome>, holding what runs when the child finishes that way, and on_error is exactly core.invoke's slot with exactly core.invoke's :failure style - the same declaration for the same concept, not a second wording of it.

A slot left empty is not a missing path: the routing transition simply targets that outcome's <final> directly, and the block finishes there.

What it compiles to

<state id="s_blk_ELIG" initial="s_blk_ELIG__running">
  <state id="s_blk_ELIG__running">
    <invoke id="blk_ELIG" src="bdoc_CHILD" type="statifier_blocks:subchart"/>
    <transition cond="_event.data.outcome === 'done'"
                event="done.invoke" target="s_blk_ELIG__o_done"/>
    <transition cond="_event.data.outcome === 'abandoned'"
                event="done.invoke" target="s_blk_ELIG__o_abandoned"/>
    <transition event="done.invoke" target="s_blk_ELIG__o_done"/>
    <transition event="error.communication.invoke" target="s_blk_PARK"/>
  </state>
  ...
</state>

<invoke> carries an explicit id (C3) so _event.invokeid is static and a parent running subcharts in parallel can tell its concurrent children apart by a value it knows at compile time. The id is the block's own id, which ADR-0001 already guarantees is document-unique and never reused, so nothing new has to be minted or kept unique.

Both done.invoke transitions and the error.communication.invoke one match by SCXML's descriptor prefix rule and name no invocation, which is safe for core.invoke's reason: they sit on the inner state, active only while this block's own call is outstanding.