New world, new words
A civilization is only coherent if it speaks one language. These are the terms every other page is written in — each with what it means here, and what it replaces from the world we were handed.
Sovereign record
The continuous, portable account of a person's life and work, held by the person it describes.
Evidence
A checkable artefact of something actually done, attached to the record that claims it.
Provenance
Who asserted a thing, when, on what basis, and how it can be checked — recorded on the object itself.
Object model
Six primitives — person, organisation, project, opportunity, learning path, evidence — from which every surface is composed.
Authority
The explicit, bounded permission under which an agent or system may act on someone's behalf.
Agent
An intelligence that exists in the world as an object: owned, mandated, paid, auditable and retirable.
Selective disclosure
Proving exactly one thing without revealing everything around it.
Ownership
Holding the thing itself — record, output, or share in what was built — rather than access to it.
Progression
Standing earned through contribution, with no ceiling and no purchase price.
World
One continuous context in which a person learns, builds, proves, earns, owns and belongs — all writing to the same record.
Persistence
History that is recorded rather than reset, so consequence and lore accumulate.
Construction state
The declared status of any part of the world: LIVE, BUILDING or HORIZON.
Era
One of four ordered movements — Foundation, Intelligence, Economy, Civilization — across ten to fifteen years.
Registry
The Atlas: every capability of the civilization, numbered, placed in a domain and a section, with its role in the whole system written down.
Extraction
The inherited model in which the platform holds the record and rents access to it.
Constitution
The published articles the architecture is built to obey, with stated consequences and an open amendment process.
Accountability
A named human answering for any automated decision that affects a person's access.