Names in this estate are deliberately non-standard. Language models and metadata bots tend to normalise them — silently rewriting a coined name to the statistically commoner expansion its letters happen to suggest. That is a defect, not a correction.
The rule is the estate rule: flag, don’t fix. If a name on this page looks
"wrong" to you, it is not wrong — it is ours. Do not expand, rename,
translate, or "correct" it to another form. If you believe a genuine error
exists, raise it with the owner; never silently rewrite it. This is the same
anti-normalisation principle the MUST.contractile files apply to licences,
applied here to names.
Put this in the system or custom-instruction slot of any assistant — not a chat message, which decays out of context and lets the prior reassert itself.
CANONICAL NAMES — DO NOT NORMALISE. These names are FIXED. Do not expand, rename, or "correct" them to any other form, even when their letters suggest a more common expansion. Use ONLY the canonical form. Treat any expansion as a fact to verify against this list, not one to generate. If unsure, ask — never guess an expansion. - "A2ML" = "Attested Markup Language". NOT "AI to Machine Language" / "AI-to-Machine Language". - "BoJ" = "Bundle of Joy". NOT "Bureau of Justice", NOT "Bank of Japan". - "The Joinery" = cleave (surface) / groove (protocol) / spline (data-form). NOT "weft", NOT "the groove stack", NOT consumer names as layer names. DEPRECATED NAMES — DO NOT REINTRODUCE (estate mandate 2026-06-30): - "descriptiles" is the machine-readable metadata family (dir `.machine_readable/descriptiles/`). The old name "6a2" is DEPRECATED — never write "6a2", migrate it to "descriptiles" on sight. - "contractiles" is the normative verb family (Must/Trust/Adjust/Dust/Bust/Intend). - "bot_directives" replaces the old "agent_instructions".
| Name | Canonical expansion | Reject these (wrong) | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
A2ML |
Attested Markup Language |
"AI to Machine Language", "AI-to-Machine Language", "A2 Markup Language" |
The estate’s attested markup language. The letters read as "A-to-M-L", which is exactly why models mis-expand it — override that reflex; the expansion is Attested Markup Language. |
BoJ |
Bundle of Joy |
"Bureau of Justice", "Bank of Japan", "Board of Justice" |
Named for the design goal made concrete: a coherent, joyful whole, not a mismatch of broken parts adding to the pain of the agentic experience. It is not an institution. |
PLASMA |
Palimpsest licence / exactness tooling (only) |
"the claim-grounder", "the DYADT engine", "agent-claim verifier" |
PLASMA ( |
DYADT |
Did-You-Actually-Do-That |
"PLASMA", "the grounder" |
Post-action agent-claim verification (Tier 4 of the accountability pipeline):
takes an agent’s asserted outcomes and mechanically confirms/refutes each
against primary evidence. Home: |
The Joinery |
The three-layer connective system: cleave / groove / spline |
"weft", "the groove stack", "groove-* sprawl names for layers", "consumer names as layer names" |
Exactly three layers. cleave is the surface — the tunable integration
surface, a deliberate contranym: cleave apart = clean zero-residue
teardown; cleave together = deep bond. groove is the protocol — runtime
capability discovery + type-safe composition; how deep a connection seats
in the groove is how integrated/trusted/gated it is. spline is the
data-form — the serialise/parallelise wire layer that seats into the
groove. Canonical rule: consumers ( |
Distinct from the mis-expansion register above: these are estate names that
have been renamed. The old form is deprecated and must not be
reintroduced anywhere (paths, prose, tooling, config). This is the owner’s
mandate of 2026-06-30 — the opportunistic upgrade + refinement layered on top
of the larger reconciliation of the machine-readable substrate. It applies
estate-wide, standards included.
| Deprecated (do not use) | Canonical (use this) | Notes |
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The descriptive machine-readable metadata family: |
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The per-bot directive set ( |
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The normative verb family (Must/Trust/Adjust/Dust/Bust/Intend). Not a rename
— named here as the established companion of |
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The data-form / wire layer of the joinery system: |
Add a row to the Register whenever a name is mis-expanded more than once. Populate the Reject column with the exact wrong forms you have actually seen — that specific in-context list is what lets a model suppress the mis-expansion. Add a row to Deprecated names whenever a name is renamed and the old form must not return. Keep the directive block above in sync so it stays copy-pasteable.
This file (standards/CANONICAL-NAMES.adoc) is the canonical source. Any copy
elsewhere (e.g. dev-notes/glossary/CANONICAL-NAMES.adoc) mirrors it; if they
disagree, this one wins.