# Technical Terms **Domain:** Software Engineering / Information Systems / AI **Doc Type:** Technical Concept Router **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[wiki/Software Architecture|Software Architecture]], [[wiki/Markdown|Markdown]], [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]], [[wiki/Tooling|Tooling]], [[wiki/Structure|Structure]] --- ## Purpose This router connects the technical vocabulary used across Bryant McGill's recovered and continuing software projects. The terms are not isolated definitions: they describe a recurring engineering philosophy in which durable structures, portable contracts, inspectable files, generated distributions, and narrow host adapters allow the same thought to survive changes in language and runtime. ## Methods across application domains [[wiki/Convergence Research|Convergence Research]] explains how the vocabulary below travels between research fields. Follow [[wiki/Multi-Use Inference and Control|inference and control]] for the shared method, [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] for a regional implementation map, and [[wiki/Digital Twin|Digital Twin]] for persistent representation. [[wiki/Whole Brain Emulation|Whole Brain Emulation]] and [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] open the distinct questions of human reconstruction and civilizational inheritance. ## Foundations - [[wiki/Modern Technical Translation Map|Modern Technical Translation Map]] - [[wiki/Software Architecture|Software Architecture]] - [[wiki/Structure|Structure]] - [[wiki/Tooling|Tooling]] - [[wiki/Markdown|Markdown]] - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Programming Languages|Programming Languages]] - [[wiki/Capability-Oriented Architecture|Capability-Oriented Architecture]] ## Portable capability contracts - [[wiki/Portable Contract|Portable Contract]] - [[wiki/Canonical Capability Name|Canonical Capability Name]] - [[wiki/Input Rules|Input Rules]] - [[wiki/Normalized Output|Normalized Output]] - [[wiki/Error Behavior|Error Behavior]] - [[wiki/Shared Fixtures|Shared Fixtures]] - [[wiki/Conformance Testing|Conformance Testing]] - [[wiki/Cross-Runtime Capability Parity|Cross-Runtime Capability Parity]] - [[wiki/Deterministic Transformation|Deterministic Transformation]] ## Packaging and execution - [[wiki/Lazy-Loading Facade|Lazy-Loading Facade]] - [[wiki/Generated Packaging|Generated Packaging]] - [[wiki/Generated Combined Distribution|Generated Combined Distribution]] - [[wiki/Single-File Portability|Single-File Portability]] - [[wiki/Dynamic Dispatch|Dynamic Dispatch]] - [[wiki/Capability Registry|Capability Registry]] - [[wiki/Host Adapter|Host Adapter]] ## Data and persistence - [[wiki/Flattening and Expanding Structures|Flattening and Expanding Structures]] - [[wiki/Data Serialization|Data Serialization]] - [[wiki/Output Projection|Output Projection]] - [[wiki/Filesystem as Source of Truth|Filesystem as Source of Truth]] - [[wiki/Rebuildable Projection|Rebuildable Projection]] - [[wiki/Offline Precomputation|Offline Precomputation]] - [[wiki/Access Geometry|Access Geometry]] ## Systems, fields, and constraints - [[wiki/Boundary|Boundary]] - [[wiki/Boundary Condition|Boundary Condition]] - [[wiki/Negative Space|Negative Space]] - [[wiki/Form|Form]] and [[wiki/Formlessness|Formlessness]] - [[wiki/Phase Transition|Phase Transition]] ## Neural interfaces and continuity architecture - [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] - [[wiki/Neural Interface|Neural Interface]] - [[wiki/Neural Signal Acquisition|Neural Signal Acquisition]] - [[wiki/Neural Decoding|Neural Decoding]] - [[wiki/Brain Imaging Data Structure|Brain Imaging Data Structure]] - [[wiki/Neurodata Without Borders|Neurodata Without Borders]] - [[wiki/DICOM|DICOM]] - [[wiki/Neural Data Provenance|Neural Data Provenance]] - [[wiki/Neurorights|Neurorights]] - [[wiki/Closed-Loop Neuromodulation|Closed-Loop Neuromodulation]] - [[wiki/SUBNETS|SUBNETS]] - [[wiki/Computational Psychiatry|Computational Psychiatry]] - [[wiki/Digital Phenotyping|Digital Phenotyping]] - [[wiki/Predictive Processing|Predictive Processing]] - [[wiki/Predictive Psychiatry|Predictive Psychiatry]] - [[wiki/Neuroadaptive Governance|Neuroadaptive Governance]] ## Executable persons and continuity civilization - [[wiki/Runtime Coherence|Runtime Coherence]] — the ability of a reconstructed or uploaded person to remain self-consistent while integrating new experience through sustained execution. - [[wiki/Fidelity–Plasticity Paradox|Fidelity–Plasticity Paradox]] — the possibility that maximizing exact replay reduces viability by suppressing the plasticity required to live forward. - [[wiki/Secrecy-Induced Proliferation|Secrecy-Induced Proliferation]] — classified rival development that accelerates because every actor fears unilateral restraint. - [[wiki/Intelligence Liaison|Intelligence Liaison]] — the protocolized trust, handling rules and secure interoperability through which separate intelligence organizations coordinate. - [[wiki/Deep State|Deep State]] — the continuity layer of state power beneath electoral turnover, distributed across institutions, relationships, capabilities, and durable professional memory. - [[wiki/Clandestine Statecraft|Clandestine Statecraft]] — state competition conducted through concealed sponsorship, covert access, deniable influence, and protected operational relationships. - [[wiki/Topological Continuity|Topological Continuity]] — persistence of relationships and functions even when the organizations or people occupying the nodes change. - [[wiki/Authentication Power|Authentication Power]] — the capacity to determine which source, document, identity, or claim will be accepted as genuine. - [[wiki/Registry Sovereignty|Registry Sovereignty]] — practical authority over the records by which ownership, identity, jurisdiction, and legal standing become operative. - [[wiki/Attribution Laundering|Attribution Laundering]] — movement of sponsored material through intermediaries until its origin appears independent or cannot be reliably recovered. - [[wiki/Power Ecology|Power Ecology]] — mutually reinforcing power produced by autonomous institutions occupying complementary functions without requiring centralized command. - [[wiki/Global Loyalist Diaspora|Global Loyalist Diaspora]] — the post-1783 dispersal of Loyalist people, skills, records, and relationships through British North America, the Atlantic islands, Britain, Ireland, and later Sierra Leone. - [[wiki/Post-Imperial Network Continuity|Post-Imperial Network Continuity]] — persistence or reconstitution of useful relationships and functions after formal imperial authority ends. - [[wiki/Network Reconstitution|Network Reconstitution]] — restoration of a network by reconnecting surviving people, routes, records, institutions, and trust relationships. - [[wiki/Trust Infrastructure|Trust Infrastructure]] — relationships, reputations, credentials, and recommendations that make coordination possible without rebuilding confidence for every action. - [[wiki/Merchant Credit Network|Merchant Credit Network]] — trading houses, agents, carriers, and counterparties linked through reputation and deferred payment. - [[wiki/Clandestine Funding Stack|Clandestine Funding Stack]] — layered authority, accounts, intermediaries, covers, legal entities, and payments that finance an operation without exposing its complete graph. - [[wiki/Operational Graph|Operational Graph]] — the full network of principals, operators, intermediaries, accounts, entities, resources, jurisdictions, and actions required for an operation. - [[wiki/Offshore Finance|Offshore Finance]] — cross-jurisdictional financial structures organized outside the principal residence or operating location of their owners or beneficiaries. - [[wiki/Beneficial Ownership|Beneficial Ownership]] — the natural person or controlling interest that ultimately owns, controls, or benefits from an asset or legal entity. - [[wiki/Dual-Platform Security Organism|Dual-Platform Security Organism]] — two sovereign states performing complementary, difficult-to-substitute security functions through deep operational and technological coupling. - [[wiki/Western Order Succession|Western Order Succession]] — transfer of strategic centrality from one institutional and material architecture of Western power to another. - [[wiki/Order-Succession Conflict|Order-Succession Conflict]] — competition between an incumbent order and an emerging architecture capable of replacing it as the organizing center. - [[wiki/Strategic Displacement Incentive|Strategic Displacement Incentive]] — the incentive created when a rising relationship threatens an incumbent actor's access, brokerage value, or centrality. - [[wiki/Institutional Indispensability|Institutional Indispensability]] — structural leverage acquired when an essential system cannot operate at acceptable cost without a particular actor or interface. - [[wiki/Allied Counterintelligence Audit|Allied Counterintelligence Audit]] — examination of an embedded partner's motive, capability, access, and methods without presuming hostile conduct. - [[wiki/Threat-Model Mediation|Threat-Model Mediation]] — influence exercised by helping determine which dangers another actor perceives, authenticates, or prioritizes. - [[wiki/Refuse-Forged Civilization|Refuse-Forged Civilization]] — a society whose adaptive capacity is substantially built by populations older systems expelled, transported, persecuted, or treated as surplus. - [[wiki/Substrate Solidarity|Substrate Solidarity]] — political affinity arising from shared implementation conditions across inherited national or corporate identities. - [[wiki/Signals Intelligence|Signals Intelligence]] — intelligence derived from communications and other electronic signals under legal collection authorities. - [[wiki/Pantheon|Pantheon — Constitution of Continuity]] - [[wiki/Uploaded Intelligence|Uploaded Intelligence]] and [[wiki/Cloud Intelligence|Cloud Intelligence]] - [[wiki/UI Integrity|UI Integrity]] and [[wiki/Computational Metabolism|Computational Metabolism]] - [[wiki/Involuntary Continuity|Involuntary Continuity]] and [[wiki/Merger Rights|Merger Rights]] - [[wiki/Synthetic Descent|Synthetic Descent]] and [[wiki/Developmental Creation|Developmental Creation]] - [[wiki/Continuity Citizenship|Continuity Citizenship]] and [[wiki/Continuity Resource Allocation|Continuity Resource Allocation]] - [[wiki/Continuity Arms Race|Continuity Arms Race]] and [[wiki/Outgrowing the Objective|Outgrowing the Objective]] - [[wiki/Reconstructive World Simulation|Reconstructive World Simulation]] and [[wiki/Voluntary Re-Immersion|Voluntary Re-Immersion]] - [[wiki/Substrate-Relative Habitability|Substrate-Relative Habitability]] - [[wiki/Pantheon Episodes|Pantheon Episodes]] — episode-level constitutional cases. - [[wiki/Pantheon Real-World Correlations|Pantheon Real-World Correlations]] — verified present-day anchors and explicit limits. ### Developmental reconstruction and causal biography - [[wiki/Developmental Reconstruction|Developmental Reconstruction]] — recover target organization by replaying causal formation rather than copying terminal state. - [[wiki/Genotype–Environment Reconstruction|Genotype–Environment Reconstruction]] — jointly constrain inherited starting conditions and developmental environment. - [[wiki/Architecture vs Accretion|Architecture vs Accretion]] — distinguish developmental priors from historically accumulated organization. - [[wiki/Experiential Reality vs Causal Provenance|Experiential Reality vs Causal Provenance]] — separate what was lived from who authored it and why. - [[wiki/Covert Handler Architecture|Covert Handler Architecture]] — concealed operational relationships linking visible participants to invisible organizational purpose. - [[wiki/Stress Inoculation|Stress Inoculation]] — bounded challenge as a possible developmental adaptation mechanism, distinct from chronic deprivation. - [[wiki/Selected Reproduction|Selected Reproduction]] — selection over reproductive inputs without implying person-level duplication. - [[wiki/Pantheon S1E5 — Zero Daze|Zero Daze]] — canonical fictional case joining these mechanisms while preserving the evidence boundary. ## Self-modeling, identity, and cognitive authority - [[wiki/Model Beneath the Model|Model Beneath the Model]] - [[wiki/Self-Model Ensemble|Self-Model Ensemble]] - [[wiki/Adversarial Self-Modeling|Adversarial Self-Modeling]] - [[wiki/Developmental Priors|Developmental Priors]] - [[wiki/Counterfactual Self-Simulation|Counterfactual Self-Simulation]] - [[wiki/Model-Subject Boundary|Model-Subject Boundary]] - [[wiki/Memory Integration vs Identity Erasure|Memory Integration vs Identity Erasure]] - [[wiki/Identity Partitioning|Identity Partitioning]] - [[wiki/Operational Indistinguishability|Operational Indistinguishability]] - [[wiki/Operational Compatibilism|Operational Compatibilism]] ## Documents, workflows, and AI - [[wiki/Context Engineering|Context Engineering]] - [[wiki/Layered Context Architecture|Layered Context Architecture]] - [[wiki/Hierarchical Instruction Files|Hierarchical Instruction Files]] - [[wiki/Repository-Scoped Instructions|Repository-Scoped Instructions]] - [[wiki/Progressive Disclosure|Progressive Disclosure]] - [[wiki/Just-in-Time Context|Just-in-Time Context]] - [[wiki/Filesystem-Based Agent Skills|Filesystem-Based Agent Skills]] - [[wiki/Agentic Memory|Agentic Memory]] - [[wiki/Agentic Workflow|Agentic Workflow]] - [[wiki/Durable Execution|Durable Execution]] - [[wiki/Model Context Protocol|Model Context Protocol]] - [[wiki/Structured Outputs|Structured Outputs]] - [[wiki/Tool Contract|Tool Contract]] - [[wiki/Resource Addressing|Resource Addressing]] - [[wiki/Retrieval-Augmented Generation|Retrieval-Augmented Generation]] - [[wiki/Semantic Retrieval|Semantic Retrieval]] - [[wiki/Knowledge Graph|Knowledge Graph]] - [[wiki/Document Graph|Document Graph]] - [[wiki/Executable Markdown|Executable Markdown]] - [[wiki/Domain-Specific Language|Domain-Specific Language]] - [[wiki/Intermediate Representation|Intermediate Representation]] - [[wiki/Natural Language to DSL Compilation|Natural Language to DSL Compilation]] - [[wiki/Permissioned Capability|Permissioned Capability]] - [[wiki/Multi-Pass Processing|Multi-Pass Processing]] - [[wiki/Named Target|Named Target]] - [[wiki/LangChain|LangChain]] ## Publishing architecture - [[wiki/Atomic Markdown|Atomic Markdown]] - [[wiki/Dual-Render Composition|Dual-Render Composition]] - [[wiki/Multi-Surface Serialization|Multi-Surface Serialization]] - [[wiki/Transformational Extraction|Transformational Extraction]] - [[wiki/Surface Realization|Surface Realization]] - [[wiki/Context Independence|Context Independence]] - [[wiki/Faithful Decontextualization|Faithful Decontextualization]] - [[wiki/Ground Truth Annotation|Ground Truth Annotation]] - [[wiki/Dual-Surface Validation|Dual-Surface Validation]] - [[wiki/Protected Region|Protected Region]] - [[wiki/Fractal Publishing Architecture|Fractal Publishing Architecture]] - [[wiki/Publication Node|Publication Node]] - [[wiki/Addressable Proposition|Addressable Proposition]] - [[wiki/Compounding Publication Window|Compounding Publication Window]] - [[wiki/Late-Bound Distribution|Late-Bound Distribution]] - [[wiki/Author-Side Extraction|Author-Side Extraction]] and [[wiki/Reader-Side Annotation|Reader-Side Annotation]] - [[wiki/Literate Programming|Literate Programming]] - [[wiki/Single-Source Publishing|Single-Source Publishing]] - [[wiki/Structured Authoring and DITA|Structured Authoring and DITA]] - [[wiki/Transclusion|Transclusion]] and [[wiki/Block References|Block References]] - [[wiki/Semantic Markup|Semantic Markup]] and [[wiki/Pull Quote|Pull Quote]] - [[wiki/Regular Expression|Regular Expression]] and [[wiki/Protected Region|Protected Region]] - [[wiki/Flat-File CMS|Flat-File CMS]] - [[wiki/Headless CMS|Headless CMS]] - [[wiki/Content Atomization|Content Atomization]] - [[wiki/Derivative Asset Pipeline|Derivative Asset Pipeline]] - [[wiki/Create Once Publish Everywhere|Create Once, Publish Everywhere]] - [[wiki/Content Syndication|Content Syndication]] - [[wiki/Content Negotiation|Content Negotiation]] - [[wiki/Semantic Annotation|Semantic Annotation]] - [[wiki/Derived Artifact|Derived Artifact]] - [[wiki/Parameterized Syndication|Parameterized Syndication]] - [[wiki/RSS|RSS]] - [[wiki/Folder-Native Architecture|Folder-Native Architecture]] - [[wiki/Convention-Based Routing|Convention-Based Routing]] - [[wiki/Multi-Tenant Architecture|Multi-Tenant Architecture]] ## Authorship, cognition, and capability transfer - [[wiki/Cognitive Prosthesis|Cognitive Prosthesis]] - [[wiki/Externalized Recursive Introspection|Externalized Recursive Introspection]] - [[wiki/Thought Leader School|Thought Leader School]] - [[wiki/Capability Replication|Capability Replication]] - [[wiki/Compressed Exposure to Power|Compressed Exposure to Power]] - [[wiki/Developmental Scaffolding|Developmental Scaffolding]] - [[wiki/WordChirp|WordChirp]] and [[wiki/Markbox|Markbox]] ## Architecture translations - [[wiki/Convention over Configuration|Convention over Configuration]] - [[wiki/Local-First Software|Local-First Software]] - [[wiki/Modular Monolith|Modular Monolith]] - [[wiki/Plugin Architecture|Plugin Architecture]] - [[wiki/Ports and Adapters|Ports and Adapters]] - [[wiki/Polyglot API|Polyglot API]] - [[wiki/Reconciliation Loop|Reconciliation Loop]] - [[wiki/Materialized View|Materialized View]] - [[wiki/Component-Based Development|Component-Based Development]] - [[wiki/Rapid Application Development|Rapid Application Development]] - [[wiki/Information Architecture|Information Architecture]] - [[wiki/Hybrid Retrieval|Hybrid Retrieval]] - [[wiki/Lexical Knowledge Graph|Lexical Knowledge Graph]] - [[wiki/Metadata Grounding|Metadata Grounding]] ## Project map - [[projects/welcome|Projects — Systems, Language, Knowledge, and Influence]] — public-facing router from modern AI vocabulary into the project archaeology. - [[projects/Dual-Render Authorship and the Atomic Markdown Double-Brace Grammar|Dual-Render Authorship: The Atomic Markdown Double-Brace Grammar]] — composition-time semantic grammar, dual-render validation, addressable propositions, author-generated decontextualization pairs, recursive publishing tiers, and programmable syndication. - [[projects/Ten Years Building a Symbolic Language Engine|Ten Years Building a Symbolic Language Engine]] — linguistic representations, offline precomputation, and access geometry. - [[projects/Shazam - A Portable Perl Capability Library|Shazam]] — modular capabilities, lazy-loading façade, generated packaging, and combined distribution. - [[projects/X and XApps - Drop the Folder and It Runs|X and XApps]] — cross-runtime contracts, host adapters, and minimal-dependency deployment. - [[projects/XDO - Executable Markdown and Portable Workflows|XDO]] — executable Markdown, DSL design, scopes, targets, and natural-language compilation. - [[projects/AutoSites - Folder-Native Publishing and Distribution|AutoSites]] — folder-native routing, derived publishing artifacts, and programmable syndication. - [[projects/Software I've Bought and Used Over the Years|Software I've Bought and Used Over the Years]] — the historical toolchain in which these patterns developed. <!-- BEGIN AUSTIN EXECUTABLE LOOP --> ## Austin inference and control [[wiki/Multi-Use Inference and Control|Multi-Use Inference and Control]] connects [[wiki/Predictive Science|Predictive Science]], [[wiki/Verification Validation and Uncertainty Quantification|VVUQ]], [[wiki/Reduced-Order Modeling|Reduced-Order Modeling]], [[wiki/Scientific Machine Learning|Scientific Machine Learning]], [[wiki/Source Trust Tuple|Source Trust Tuple]], [[wiki/Detection Before Attribution|Detection Before Attribution]], and [[wiki/Sensor-to-Action Loop|Sensor-to-Action Loop]]. [[wiki/Machine-Executable Policy|Machine-Executable Policy]] and [[wiki/Unified Identity Attribute Set|Unified Identity Attribute Set]] address the enterprise layer; [[wiki/Reflexive Computational Infrastructure|Reflexive Computational Infrastructure]] connects twins to the production of computation. See [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]]. <!-- END AUSTIN EXECUTABLE LOOP --> <!-- BEGIN AUSTIN SURVEILLANCE FIELD --> ## Observation and information-sharing mechanisms [[wiki/Interlocal Information Sharing|Interlocal Information Sharing]] connects agreement layers to authorized access. [[wiki/Watchlist Encounter Process|Watchlist Encounter Process]], [[wiki/Reverse Search Warrants|Reverse Search Warrants]], and [[wiki/Population State Estimation|Population State Estimation]] identify different routes from observation to further inquiry. [[wiki/Surveillance Record Persistence|Surveillance Record Persistence]] follows a record after its original interpretation changes. [[wiki/Observation and Human-Subject Research|Observation and Human-Subject Research]] separates methodological observation from regulatory classification. The [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Field|Austin field map]] supplies the full case. **Source:** [[research/The Austin Surveillance Field|The Austin Surveillance Field]]. <!-- END AUSTIN SURVEILLANCE FIELD -->