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A POCKET GLOSSARY — ELEVEN WORDS THAT UNLOCK THE BOOK
tic
the system’s heartbeat — one full work-cycle, like a civic day. The story runs from tic 1 to about tic 400.
receipt
a signed, permanent record that something happened. The system’s substitute for trusting anyone’s memory.
office
a software role with a written mandate, powers, and limits — a government post held by an AI.
council
one of forty permanent debates (privacy vs. safety, markets vs. sacred things…) deliberately kept unresolved.
membrane
the filter at every boundary: outside material may enter as evidence, never as authority.
harpoon
how outside ideas come in: logged, quarantined, and assessed under seal — never adopted on excitement.
gate
a checkpoint where proposed changes must show reasons, evidence, and an undo path before becoming law.
telos
the system’s purpose — stored as a living, versioned document that cannot be silently overwritten.
lane
a bounded channel of work with its own rules — so different kinds of authority can’t blur together.
taxidermy
the failure the system hunts in itself: things that look alive and no longer are.
the architect
Breyden Taylor — founder, and the person every safeguard binds hardest.
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