Reference
Glossary
Terminology used consistently across every framework module, prompt, and report section.
12 of 12 terms shown
- Artifact attack surface
- The enumerated set of instrument, environmental, procedural, and analytical mechanisms that could produce an observed signal without the proposed phenomenon.
- Contradiction register
- A maintained record of conflicting claims with severity, owner, and resolution state. Contradictions are resolved with evidence or escalated, never deleted.
- Digital twin
- A bounded computational model of an apparatus and its environment, published with declared scope, excluded physics, and validity limits.
- Disconfirming observation
- The specific measurement outcome that would falsify a hypothesis, stated before the measurement is made.
- Dual-use screening
- Governance review of an artifact for potential misuse exposure, conducted at a level of detail that does not itself provide uplift.
- Evidence label
- A descriptive tag stating what a claim rests on. Labels are not scores and are never aggregated into metrics.
- Information gain
- The expected reduction in uncertainty between competing hypotheses produced by a candidate experiment, used to order a constrained backlog.
- Non-intrusive engagement
- An operating posture in which the framework reads only client-approved materials and holds no write access to client systems unless explicitly authorized.
- Provenance
- The recorded chain of origin, ownership, handling, and modification for a source, dataset, or claim.
- Quarantine
- A register state withholding a claim or dataset from downstream use pending governance review, retained in audit history throughout.
- Replication packet
- A standalone package enabling an unaffiliated team to attempt a result without contacting the originating team.
- Residual risk
- What remains unexplained after the artifact controls that were actually performed, stated explicitly.