# Glossary

| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| body | replaceable execution site: process, worker, VM, machine, or native host |
| capability | legacy/current-v0 term for independently verifiable authority evidence carried/referenced by a cryptocursor continuation; not a separate top-level semantic plane |
| Caravan | the existing native compatibility boundary for ordinary/hybrid torrents, DHT lookup, signed private swarm discovery, and native body telemetry; generic routing/relay/store behavior is migration material for Cursors/Metasocketry |
| chop | replace state with independently addressable pieces plus an assembly description |
| constellation | cooperating set of bodies and Selves; no permanent master implied |
| continuation state | explicit serializable program point, locals, cursor reference, authority references, and resume requirements; never a VM heap snapshot |
| crypto cursor | sealed immutable causal continuation carrying history, resumable state references, authority lineage, and receipt/effect evidence |
| Cursor Machine | SQLite-owned scheduler and transactional state machine that leases coarse continuation work to restricted executors and admits their returned intents |
| Cryptocursors | the full signed/distributed form of Cursors; often shortened to Cursors in product copy |
| cryptofabric | named ensemble of carriers, relays, stores, recovery, admission, observation, and planning rules moving Cursors material without redefining its identity/authority |
| cryptopointer | portable target + requested view + resolver constraints + nonsecret authority/curve hints; knowing it grants nothing |
| curve | authority-relative projection of a world, addressed separately from participant identity |
| curve address | location hint for a local, relative, or invitation-only meeting projection |
| cursor DAG | causal graph formed by cursor parent references, including the authority evolution of those continuations |
| dataspace | scoped set of attributed assertions and structural interests |
| curve space | a view of a world projected relative to authority, locality, cost, and relationship—not the mathematical elliptic curve used by a key algorithm |
| effect | operation observable outside pure cursor advancement |
| facet | lifecycle scope for behavior, assertions, interests, and resources |
| fabric | interchangeable transports, relays, stores, and recovery mechanisms carrying envelopes/material |
| friend | a local address-book relationship until a remote mailbox relationship and its cursor-carried authority are mutually established |
| fan-in / join | advance from multiple parent cursors under an explicit state/authority join rule |
| fan-out / split | advance multiple children from one parent, often with explicitly divided/attenuated authority |
| grant | CURSO/0 independently addressed authority-evidence record used by a cryptocursor; useful proof/cache unit, not an independent semantic plane |
| horizon | selected frontier of cursors a world currently considers live or relevant, plus the explicit evidence/closure assumptions used to reason there |
| interest | structural pattern asking to observe matching assertions |
| lease | bounded claim on work, an assertion, or an interest; expiry makes stale ownership observable and permits reconciliation |
| mailbox | addressed, deduplicated, bounded queue of envelopes and delivery receipts |
| MetaHandle | local typed virtual handle realized by Metasocketry; may expose only operations the selected resource/carrier really supports and is never cursor identity/authority |
| metasocketry | companion virtual socket/handle and live-topology substrate; shipped today as small socket-shaped adapters plus routed Fabric/PeerSocket/relay/store behavior, evolving toward typed `open`/socket/listen/send/recv-style handles and replaceable carriers |
| object DAG | immutable content-addressed data graph |
| Nelua portable core | Nelua-generated C compiled to parity-gated scalar/SIMD Wasm for authority-free computation and scheduler packets; not a Lua VM |
| receipt | stable bounded evidence that a message, resource operation, or external effect reached a stated acceptance/completion observation |
| reforge | legacy/current-v0 term for producing strictly attenuated successor authority evidence for a continuation |
| resolver | component that turns a reference plus the cursor's accepted authority and requested view into data, mapping, computation, or denial |
| restricted Lua profile | stored Lua-shaped source limited to a versioned allowlist and JSON-compatible values, compiled into a portable graph without ambient host authority |
| Self | durable cryptographic identity and world lineage, independent of any one body |
| pilot | the local operator identity currently controlling this cockpit body; guests may explore without one |
| curso.rs | one public deployment host for the Cursors cockpit; not the name of the system and not a required root of trust |
| CURSO/0 | retained legacy wire/profile identifier for compatibility; changing product/architecture language does not silently rewrite canonical bytes |
| signed swarm | invitation-scoped signed directory head plus encrypted torrent manifest and ciphertext pieces; swarm peers remain availability participants, not cursor authorities |
| split envelope | CURSO/0 signed vector committing child authority allocations so consumable budgets can be checked together; materialization of cursor split semantics |
| tuple | compact typed structural value used in dataspace assertions and interests |
| transactional outbox | effect intent committed beside the state change that requires it, then claimed and executed only after commit |
| wake | instantiate or resume a Self/facet/cursor through an available body |
| world | inspectable programming environment rooted in named objects, cursors, facets, and views |