Glossary

Use these terms to choose the right boundary before choosing an API.

Aether: The process-level root that hosts frames and shared runtime services.
Aetheric frame: A live world with its own runtime registries, posture, and instance isolation. Frame isolation does not make identical binding identities distinct.
Bind: Register a class, callable, or existing object and its address/lifetime policy.
Binding name: The named slot within a spellframe address. Supply it consistently when resolving.
Campaign: Attribution for a particular effort across research history. Eligible writes can inherit the active campaign; an unfiltered history query has a different default.
Checkpoint: A recorded structural checkpoint identified in ledger creation order. Creating it in memory, sealing it locally, and restoring a world from it are separate operations.
Composition: An informational set of pinned spell versions, with identity derived from membership. Recomposition produces a successor without overwriting the previous roster.
Conduit: A runtime scope used to resolve objects. A book conjures one root; lesser conduits create narrower scopes. Links connect eligible conduits within the same frame.
Conjure: Compile and validate a book's graph, then create its one root conduit.
Contract: A relationship governing selected sharing between conduits. The borrower pulls a spell from the conduit that owns it after the relationship is linked.
Crystallizer: The structural recording, custody, checkpoint, and restore surface.
Disposal: Calling configured teardown methods when the owning runtime ends its managed lifetime. Application references and ownership still need an explicit lifecycle policy.
Existence: The instance reuse and lifetime policy selected for a bound spell.
Meld: Resolve an addressed spell into an object according to its graph and existence policy.
MutationResearch: The version, lane, residency, composition, and derived comparison/impact record.
Nexus: The root of the mediated Rift/room access surface.
Notch: Promote a member of a SpellIndex into its selected position. Staging a candidate is a separate act; the public example documents the object-handle boundary.
Override: A mapping of constructor inputs or graph socket targets supplied to meld. The lifetime of an object constructed with it still follows that object's existence policy.
Persistence profile: A named content window receiving structural emissions. The process checkpoint ledger and research-set residency are separate from this partition.
Posture: The configured operational policy of a world or room, established through its applicable setup and activation sequence.
Research set: One independent body of version history, lanes, and residency over the runtime.
Rift: A named mediated session that owns one room and explicitly attaches to eligible frames.
Spell: A bound object's runtime registration metadata, identity, and lifecycle contract.
SpellContract: A late-bound dependency socket filled through linking, a borrower pull, and resolution.
Spellframe: The category half of a spell's address inside a world. It is not an aetheric frame.
SpellIndex: A stable index containing spell members and one current selection.
SpellMap: An explicit dependency target, commonly supplied as a constructor parameter default.
SpellSpace: A narrower resolution scope supporting the unique-per-spell-space lifetime.
Synthetic module: An importable module whose source is carried in the recorded material rather than a file.
Workstation: A room-local store of named objects, attributes, methods, and one active target. It holds supplied handles; world resolution belongs to the owning command surface.

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