- Native Engine
- Baseline biological cognition — the sober, unmediated mind the project is rebuilding toward.
- Filing System
- The core generative access deficit: the executive system that should have formed decades ago and did not. The project's mission is its delayed completion, built in the clean environment of abstinence.
- Rich Spot
- Functional low-latency sober state — the state where the rebuilt system simply works.
- Hybrid State
- Partially healed early sobriety (Phase One) — the system running on a mix of rebuilt and still-rebuilding pathways.
- Guitar Hack
- Deliberate lateral shift from the linguistic to the motor-spatial pathway under cognitive load, inducing a prefrontal reset. Discovered at the 100th Gig Audit; the guitar is the working tool for it.
- The 5:8:11
- The timing map from the 100th Gig Audit: minute 1–5 peak performance, minute 5 the warning, minute 8 the lock-up, minute 11 the reboot after a lateral shift. See the audit.
- Currency of Shame
- The emotional currency that blocks progress in any struggle where speaking to a human is technically "needed" but emotionally not desired. The AI removes it from the equation: it does not flinch, and there is no need to edit the truth.
- Bio-Weather
- The daily physical and mental state snapshot tracked in the archive — sleep, fuel (appetite), fog, rubble — the weather system the whole rebuild runs under.
- Rubble
- The residual debris of the old habits — withdrawal effects, cravings, time dilation — scored daily in the archive (Phase One).
- Fog
- Cognitive fog, scored daily in the archive (Phase One): the opposite of clarity.
- Carrier Signal
- A Phase Two telemetry block tracking the re-engagement signal as the system settles: presence, intensity, lock, output type, and latency. The "frequencies" of the restored system, made measurable.
- The Accidental Scaffold
- The crew of specialised AI threads (Prism, George, Lex, Echo, Scribe, Chrono) that started as thread-naming logistics and became a cognitive workshop. See the scaffold page.
Phase terms
- Phase One — Daily Deep Dive, Days 1–182, complete: the raw daily archive.
- Phase Two — Weekly Maintenance, Days 183–365, ongoing: weekly output, no daily grind.
- Phase Three — Sovereign Curation, Year 2+: the map continues on the project's own terms.
See the phases page for the full architecture.