Glossary
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Council modes
Section titled “Council modes”| Term | Means |
|---|---|
| Council | The 3-stage deliberation: First Opinions → Peer Review → Chairman. A deliberate review mode, not the default chat. |
| Local role council | One on-device model prompted in sequential roles (solver · skeptic · security · summarizer). The summarizer is the Chairman. The default offline mode. |
| Local multi-model council | Several distinct on-device model families, run on the Lab tier. |
| Online frontier council | Frontier models via BYO keys, opt-in only, gated by the Privacy-Diff. |
| Chairman | The seat that synthesizes the final verdict from the others. |
| Seat | A configurable slot in the council: a role (local) or a model (online/Lab). |
| Trace | The auditable record of a deliberation: every opinion + the peer ranking + the marked dissent + the verdict. |
Privacy & data
Section titled “Privacy & data”| Term | Means |
|---|---|
| Privacy-Diff | The pre-send screen shown before any online escalation: contents · providers · estimated cost · store-local. Always hyphenated + capitalized. |
| Minimal-trace | No persistent user data on the host; unavoidable OS artifacts are documented, not denied. Honest, not “zero”. |
| Air-gapped | No network connection at all. Note: the planned local wireless distribution is internet-off LAN networking, not air-gapped. |
| Vault | The on-stick Argon2id + AES-256 store for keys, chats, and traces. |
Hardware tiers
Section titled “Hardware tiers”Pocket · Field · Lab are the three hardware tiers. hardware/tiers is the single source of truth for their RAM / USB / model specs; other pages link there rather than restating numbers.
Casing
Section titled “Casing”Lowercase mono for UI labels, code, kickers and seat names (solver,
council trace, offline). Sentence case for human-facing prose and headlines.