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Term	Meaning
Aurora Studio / the kit	This repository: the engine, skills, templates and the panel. Deployed into a project, which then carries its own copy
Project	A folder with aurora.config.yaml and the fixed layout. Holds its own engine copy in .aurora/ and its own knowledge
Card	A Markdown file with the knowledge about one entity. The card
Type (type)	What a card is about and by which template it is made: concept, process, glossary … (thirteen types); written by the section folder. Card templates
Card template	A file TemplatesCommon/akdb_<type>_v<version>.md: the type's passport, a head and body skeleton, an example, a self-check list. Its name is written in the card's template: field; kb:cards checks cards against it (for now it only advises)
Type-choosing instruction	Prompts/KB_classify.md: steps 0–7 for picking one card type without reading every template; the file belongs to the project (kb:cards --guide)
cards: block	A section of aurora.config.yaml: a card type's title, description and switch; edited in "Project settings → Card types"
Type catalogue	The generated AuroraKnowledgeDB/meta/card_types.md: the list of types with descriptions; manual edits are lost
Kind (kind)	dictionary, document or knowledge — decides who may edit the body
Status	knowledge, draft, placeholder, index, deprecated — the trust class
Trust	Computed from Jira statuses and where the source lives; never assigned. Trust
trust_basis	The reason for a card's status, in words ("PRJ-123 in progress")
Thesis	A short claim written by the model above the verbatim source of a knowledge card
Momus	The second model that checks every claim against the source
Stub / placeholder	A card created only because a link names the concept; excluded from search and context until a definition appears
Mirror	A deterministic copy of Confluence, Jira or a site in Sources/
Raw/	Immutable evidence: contract, laws, customer material, meetings, corrections
Correction	A human's note that a card is wrong, kept in Raw/corrections/ and applied at every build (kb:correct)
Artifact	A produced document in Artifacts/; never knowledge
based_on	The cards an artifact stands on
Deliverable	An artifact assembled for handover; released/ holds frozen snapshots
DR (Decision Record)	An append-only record of a decision with rejected options
REQ, SPEC, Q	Requirement, specification and question-to-the-customer cards (REQ-NNN, SPEC-NNN, Q-NNN)
MOC	Map of content — a generated index card that makes cards reachable
Route	An ordered set of steps run by one button: Update, Fix, Rebuild, Write, Deliver
Lap (loop)	One batch parsed, thesised, linked and committed — a run is cut into complete laps
Ring	The numbered list of LLM gateways a call goes through
Gateway / backend	An OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoint
Ratchet	The pre-commit rule that the number of lint errors may not grow
git-guard	The refusal to write over a dirty tree, so rollback stays possible
Skill	A procedure for assistants: aurora-vault, aurora-grill, aurora-dev
MCP	Model Context Protocol; Aurora's server gives an assistant the base as a read-only tool
Cockpit / the panel	The local web control panel
Engine manifest	engine_manifest.txt: the whitelist of files update may overwrite in a project
Registry	commands.txt: the single source of truth for which commands exist

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