Vocabulary

Lookup page for the domain terms. Every page uses exactly these words, one term per concept. The 1984 proper names (minitrue, recdep, telescreen, speakwrite, thinkpol, memoryhole; the drawers tube, desk, upsub, files) are mapped to their roles in the README component table and in the names.

Terms

Term	Meaning
event	Something that happened upstream: a review request, a thread reply, a ticket assignment.
record	One file in the queue describing one event.
queue	The whole recdep directory tree of records.
drawer	One state directory of the queue: tube, desk, upsub, or files.
source	The provider a record came from: github, slack, or linear.
producer	The program that polls sources and files records. minitrue is the shipped producer.
stance	The text you type when you dictate.
intent	The file recording a request for a reaction: an entry line, an action line, a guidance section.
action	The verb in the intent selecting the reaction type.
guidance	Stance text carried by the intent: the rule default plus what you typed.
reaction	What speakwrite writes for a record: a reply, a review, or a comment. Use the specific word when the context is specific; reaction is the umbrella.
draft	A reaction not yet approved.
approval	The recorded double-key consent to post a draft.
actor	The program that posts approved drafts. thinkpol is the shipped actor.
publisher	The actor's per-provider posting backend: github-pr, slack-thread, linear-issue, or a configured exec command; routing rules in telescreen.yaml pick which one takes a URL.
marker	An appended section in a record: dictated, draft, published, or discarded.
stale	A record whose event resolved without you.
rule, action map	The config rules picking a record's action and guidance.
agent	An LLM process following instructions.
skill	The instruction file claude reads from ~/.claude/skills/; other agents take the same text through the prompt.

Verbs

Verb	Meaning
file	Write a record into the queue, or move one to the files drawer.
take	Move a record from tube to desk.
up	Move a record to upsub: you acted, the other side owes the next move.
dictate	Write a stance for a record; the intent carries it to speakwrite.
approve	Record the double-key consent to post a draft.
discard	Reject a draft; a pending approval is revoked.
delete	Remove a record permanently (the memory hole).