Vocabulary

The durable, content addressed source material artifact (captured Firecrawl markdown + title/url/excerpt/hashes), the shared evidence repo at domain.articles. It is a general system artifact, not Program only : both research cycles (feeding Streams) and Monitor (feeding Position Signals) upsert...

The two modes of running a maintained expert. On autopilot the expert runs its Program autonomously on cadence — watching, updating positions, tracking calls — with no user driving. The autopilot inbox (DomainProgramView) is a finite, chronological stream of the meaningful events it produced,...

The aggregate of every open stance. The domain's current bearing across everything undecided . The belief is the aggregation; stances are the units; threads are the questions stances answer.

The set of Positions an expert currently holds: its portfolio. The output of the model, where the three horizons used to terminate in a read. A Book is repositioned on the Program's cadence, never rebalanced silently — every change arrives as a proposal with its reasoning attached. Two Books run...

A portable, member free package the Exchange distributes: one Domain , or several grouped with their cross domain Graph so importing reconstitutes a Constellation . A Bundle is sold as a configurable setup — a running head start, not static content: it carries the world/corpus, the research...

. (Reversed 2026 08 03: the previous invariant said a Position's read was never scored at all. Retired 2026 08 05: Projection merged into Position; the reasoning and the bet are one term. See Pivot.) It is maintained for as long as the question is live — short or long — and can go

Whether stated confidence is honest: when the engine says 70%, does it land 70% of the time, measured across many resolved Positions. The transferable result — a statement about the generator , so it carries to domains with no market. Reserved for this readout; it is not a synonym for a Position...

The sixth Story delivery segment (Research · Monitor · Opinion · Tutor · Project · Canon ): the chronicle of the domain's written substance advancing — arcs opened or extended and world expansions — whichever hand moved it (a pilot's manual generation or the autopilot's tutor fold). A display...

, and the invalidation condition that would falsify it. (A Position carries its own reasoning; there is no longer a separate Projection artifact — the two merged 2026 08 05.)

What an inbox item means for the user — the user facing taxonomy that replaced the four task labels on the reading surface (core/loop/consequence.ts, pure). Five behavioural states that determine presentation + available actions: awareness (understanding changed; no action needed — the quiet...

The two levels of member access. A constellation role is the default a person inherits in every domain currently inside that constellation. A domain override is an explicit role stored on one domain and wins over inheritance, including a deliberate downgrade. Removing the override restores the...

(Light touch / Balanced / Aggressive / Market hours) are the high level knob — applying one writes concrete cadences onto every owner at once; advanced users then tune any individual cycle or Position monitor. The read loop query and the Schedule surface both show the one merged list, so "what...

What fraction of an expert's thesis grade claims were measurable at all (had a clean instrument). Reported beside every track record, because a verified 15% of a model is worth more than an unverifiable 100%, and a P&L curve with no coverage figure implies a completeness that does not exist.

A secondary onboarding vector where an experienced Director prepares a private Constellation or Bundle over MCP — e.g. filtering a large brief (a .md of their practice) into a custom Constellation — and delivers it to a new Director, who imports it as a configured jumpstart rather than building...

when the question is answered or abandoned, staying readable as the track the read walked (how the distribution moved, on what evidence, when). It reacts to both user inputs (a source, a correction) and world inputs (fresh evidence), staged in Stories for the user to weigh in on. Position is a...

The LLM crafted display layer on a Program event (engine/loop/editorial.ts): a sharp

The shipped exchange surface for expert models. A Director publishes a Bundle to a

The accepted, readable, versioned preparation text that is the sole seed for one Domain extraction. Private corpora preserve interview answers as supplied knowledge; Public corpora preserve cited current web evidence. Both separate scope, system model, actors, mechanisms, futures, uncertainties,...

A domain's editorial record : the ongoing, timestamped account of an expert and how its opinion evolved and how its read moved — Threads settling, Streams acting, Positions re pricing on evidence — projected into readable Stories and digest posts. A Feed is consumable by other people (following,...

(a complete claim), an analyst narrative (why it matters), verbatim pull quotes with attribution, and 2–3 highlights . Written once at commit time and verifier gated — the model proposes , the code verifies (a quote that doesn't appear verbatim in its claimed source is dropped). It is display...

The recurring user practice around the machine Program, not a second execution pipeline. Orient means understanding material change relative to the maintained model; Judge means supplying the smallest useful human decision at an escalation boundary; Steer means pointing the read at a question...

the human centric core, and why the rest holds together. The unit of value is human judgement — the read each writer carries on the world being built. Meridians honours it and aggregates it: many individual stances, gathered, weighed, and resolved into one living model that manifests as domain ....

The edge the Program's cadence buys: reading sources sooner and tracing them further than the market has. Measured by entry latency (sourcePublishedAt → openedAt) as a covariate, never optimised — if the edge is real, results decay as latency grows.

(a Research brief, a quoted source, a Position Signal / re price, an Opinion sparkline — consume + drill down) and an action card (a Merge proposal, a Position re price to review — accept / edit / stage / defer, which compiles to a typed directive the next run reserves and applies). Reading a...

The period between a proposal producing run and the next eligible action run. A human may accept, edit, supersede, or cancel the staged Directive during this window; after the action run reserves it, later edits belong to the following run. This is how guided and autonomous operation share one...

A freeform per domain task board — the operator's (or an agent's) scratch space for organising work on a domain. A Board holds ordered Columns (the pipeline, left→right = progress; the default seed is To do · In progress · Done , freely renamed/added); each column holds ordered cards (a task —...

in one of three visibility modes — public (an open shelf every Director can browse and adopt), granted (shared with named Directors via account grants — the team/onboarding lane), or

Committed Streams folded into continuity: the war room commit. It interleaves a set of streams' priors by time and extends the domain forward from them. Streams + Merges are a global ledger shared across branches, made branch relative via basisMergeIds. A Scenario round is a Merge — the round's...

declares the sources/topics/tickers watched and its cadence; what it watches can be re targeted as the question sharpens. It is the foresight complement of a Stream : where a Stream accrues priors that

A captured fragment in the Capture workspace: a dated, optionally titled piece of raw material (a pasted briefing, a quoted excerpt, a one line observation) the operator or an agent pours in without committing to structure. Notes pile up in a queue ; they are the ingest substrate that feeds the...

Folding a subset of the Notes queue into the model. The operator/agent selects notes, picks how to combine them — Concatenate (verbatim under headings, no LLM; the default for a single note) or Synthesise (an LLM weaves them into one document; the default for many) — and a destination : Extend...

. (Formerly called Prior/Priors compact internally — renamed to end the collision with the belief layer Prior.)

The full page, resumable genesis flow that turns fixed interest signals, an editable identity, Private interviews, and Public Research into one named Constellation . Several Onboarding documents may coexist. Each supports pause, resume, reopen, reset, and guilt free removal after its generated...

The one instance wide IANA timezone baseline every cadence is relative to. A ProgramSchedule stores only its wall clock hour ; that hour is interpreted against the operations timezone, and the scheduler's Croner fires it there → the exact absolute (UTC) instant. So a cadence set to "9am" fires...

A Stream's slots are the mutually exclusive ways its question could land, and its priors are evidence that moves the read. An action is an outcome with a known driver — when the question is one the seat itself decides ("Do I storm the east gate or wait for Karis's signal?"), its outcomes simply...

A live, self updating forward read the expert commits to and maintains: a question , a priced Reading (a cohort of possible futures with relative probabilities), and a monitor that watches the evidence that matters and repositions on the deltas as they land. A Position binds a typed reasoning...

The same Position defined above, read through the verification lens: it is the unit that gets graded. It names the instrument, the side, the size, the horizon, and — non negotiably — the thesis that argued for it, the causal path walked to reach it, the

The explicit, user authored clock for creating comparable dated Position samples. It owns a forward question/direction, a sample horizon, and an eligibility cadence. A Domain has no Position generation clock until its Director creates this cycle. Each eligible run builds a fresh Graph and priced...

Two distinct Domain genesis phases. Preparation gathers Private interview knowledge or saturating Public web evidence and ends in an accepted expert paradigm corpus. Extraction consumes that corpus to create the canonical Domain. Preparation never writes partial AI prose directly into canonical...

(the unit) — One dated observation contributed to a Stream (StreamPrior): a prose intuition that doubles as a belief log node, its updates moving the Stream's stance. Distinct from Priors (below), the compounded asset — a prior is one entry, Priors is what they amount to.

Both the compounded asset and the surface that builds it (formerly the Queue ). As an asset: what the domain has compounded over time — established canon, character truths, world rules and lore, the structural shape of branches already explored, calibrated reads of how each actor moves under...

The information boundary of a Domain, inferred from its purpose and boundary rather than inherited from an interest card. A Private Domain depends on knowledge held by a person or team—lived context, work, decisions, routines, constraints, or supplied records—and is prepared through a paced AI...

(Surface labels; the engine identifiers are watch → opinion → tutor → project — the label leads the identifier, as with Phase Graph / phase graph.) The operating system of a maintained expert : four ordered tasks, run on a cadence (Cron is the machine side), that each leave the domain sharper...

and can surface a notable shift for the user to review as new evidence lands.

coordinates load bearing variables into multiple possible futures at an explicit temporal vantage — into a maintained read of where the world is heading , held across how things could go. These artifacts remain linked and inspectable—a Position is never generated directly from question prose. Its

A scheduled Private Domain Program trigger that asks one authored check in question. A delivery is a soft prompt : it advances the Reminder and emits a Reminder Story that nudges the user to log. It does not author a Note. The Story carries the prompt inline — the user types or dictates their...

as evidence lands, writing to canon never. A Position carries both the priced commitment and the thesis behind it — the instrument, the side, the confidence at entry, the causal path walked, and the invalidation condition that would falsify it. It is where an expert stops describing the world...

A DomainProgramRun is one scheduled/manual task execution (operational audit: what it targeted, the version/cursor it pinned, which directives it reserved, its status). A ProgramDirective is staged intent — a typed instruction (per task: watch instruction / opinion attention / tutor decision /...

A research cycle and a Position monitor are the SAME primitive on different clocks. A research cycle reads its sites/topics on a ProgramSchedule cadence and is open ended (it produces Streams , running until you disable it). A Position monitor IS a question scoped research cycle bound to a...

(resolving via Tutor , folded by a Merge ), a Position holds a forward read and

One monitored evidence point on a Position that moves the read — the Position side analogue of a Stream's prior (both reuse the same evidence→stance math; a prior seeds a Stream, a Signal repositions a Position's read). Applied sequentially; a successful no change Signal is recorded separately...

that reposition the read, staged for the user to weigh in on. Every task emits DomainProgramEvents (the canonical projection spine — "projection" here is the rendering of events into cards, the event rendering sense, distinct from the Projection opinion layer) that project into Stories . A...

(self only, unlisted) — and another Director can browse , preview , fork/import , and review an upstream update . Backed by real listing/version/grant/fork records with RLS; the free exchange core (publish → browse → preview → fork → import → follow) ships today . What remains direction is the...

The durable per source record of how each source has earned its standing : a log of SourceEvents (correction · corroboration) joined to the source that supplied each prior. Every StreamPrior already carries provenance (source + timestamp); the ledger is the join that makes source reputation...

The editable Constellation level shelf of Sites, Topics, exact URLs, and feeds assigned to proposed Public Domains. It supports restricted or open Firecrawl search and preserves the approved source boundary and origin lineage.

A thread's current bearing across its outcomes. State = (probability distribution via softmax over logits, volume, volatility). Stances update every scene that emits a thread delta; they close when the leading outcome's logit margin clears a threshold and the closing scene emits a payoff or twist.

The human attention layer. A Story is one discrete card projected from a DomainProgramEvent + its canonical artifacts — never a second source of truth. Two modes: an

A single perspective's bearing on one open question, gathered over time as evidence lands. The per seat unit of the belief layer, and — the load bearing contrast with a Thread — the staging ground for a change to canon : a Stream accrues priors and what it settles is folded into the model by a...

, seeded from priors ) and Monitor (revising active Positions → applies Signals that reposition the read). They read different targets and emit different artifacts (Streams vs. Position Signals) but present as ONE Research phase in the schedule + run UI. Opinion is a deterministic salience pass...

An expert's opinion is not one thing — it is

The causal argument a Position rests on: fresh evidence traced through the domain's graph to a consequence two or more hops from the news. The thesis, not the ticker, is what is being tested — which is why results are read stratified by causal depth . A one hop thesis is a news read; a two hop...

Open questions the domain is open on. Each thread is a question ("Does she take the throne?") with a set of named outcomes (binary ["yes", "no"] or multi outcome ["Stark", "Lannister", "Targaryen", "nobody"]). Threads are the substrate's mechanism for tracking everything in the story that hasn't...

, and keeping them distinct is the point: Threads → Fate, long horizon. Durable logs of a broad world outcome question (will X resolve which way?), accumulated over the whole chronology. The expert's settled, long horizon opinion about how the world bears. (These map to the Fate force.) Streams...

An expert's accrued, timestamped history of Positions and how they resolved. The one asset that cannot be back generated : rebuild every layer of the architecture and it still ships empty. Published with its Coverage , or it is a half truth.

A per (source × domain) weight computed from the source ledger — trust is domain contextual (an outlet strong on rates can be weak on geopolitics). Corrections move it most, corroboration least; it decays toward neutral without reinforcement. Applied when evidence enters as a bounded, clamped...

Establishing what a knowledge base actually understands by making it commit and letting something outside it mark the result. Public Domains verify against the market ; Private Domains verify against the operator's own resolved record (dated positions on their live questions, resolved by them at...

A Thread is canon . A Stream stages a change to canon and terminates in a Merge. A Position never writes to canon — it is composed forward (Graph → Reading) and re priced for as long as its question is live. All three may hang on an outcome question; only a Stream's settling changes the model,...

This is a concept tree, not a glossary wall. Each leaf defines one term or tightly coupled mechanism.

Category positioning

action type (entryLane in activity analytics — the one lane derivation every surface uses).

analyst desk copy rather than a live conversation.

Layers

Learning (study layer)

Memory & context

Platform, instances & people (the roadmap vocabulary)

Play (the room)

Product model

Reasoning

Strategic play (game theory)

Substrate

goal: keep it complete as features land. See MCP README.