Every unfamiliar word on this site, in plain English first. Link to any term with
#its-anchor. Patent pending is noted only on the terms our filed USPTO provisional
applications confirm by their own title or section headings — never as a blanket claim,
and never as “patented.” Where a term has a longer public explanation elsewhere on the
site, this entry links to it rather than repeating it.
Accumulator
The third of the three MnemosyneC layers. It stores a verified answer as a new Eblet so the next Ask on the same question costs nothing and takes milliseconds, instead of asking the model again. See How It Works and How to Read the Substrate.
Addendum, Never Deletion
The estate’s rule that a correction is added on top of the record, never used to erase what was there before — a wrong answer or a rejected alternative stays visible, marked as superseded, rather than vanishing. On the Research Marks board, “a upheld challenge… is appended, never deleted.” Patent pending, Provisional 24 (disclosed as storing eliminated alternatives as first-class records rather than discarding them).
Andon Cord
MnemosyneC’s promise that no question is silently thrown away. If the pipeline can’t agree on an answer, it retries, then asks other machines in your Constellation, then asks The Diagnosis human network — and if nothing works, it says so plainly (“honest quarantine”) instead of writing a guess. See How It Works.
Bounty Poster
An open call for a specific, contracted piece of work — “Contracts only. Finished product, in time frame, to spec. We don’t pay hourly.” — credited in Marks. See Bounty Posters. Patent pending, Provisional 8 (which discloses a bounty mechanism with fractional-degree structure).
Canonical Plow Pipeline
The full path a question travels when MnemosyneC has to work an answer out rather than recall one it already has: Spider (finds sources) → Sprite (classifies the question) → nine external Specialists → Miner (extracts and dedupes candidates) → Saladin, the Adversarial Fence (challenges the answer) → Furnace, the Integrity Gate (checks it doesn’t contradict itself) → Three Fates / Concordance (three-vote agreement) → Scribe (writes the verified Eblet) → Detective + Andon Cord (checks it against everything already known). See How It Works.
Celpane
The small, bounded payload — roughly 10 to 50 tokens — that a Keyhole connector hands back on first read. It is a pointer, not the whole fact: a second, explicit fetch through the connector’s linked file is what gets the full detail. Patent pending, Provisional 24 (disclosed as the “bounded payload panes” a fixed-cardinality connector index resolves to).
Cold Start
A free starter business plan for a member who wants to start something — a node, a service, a small business — without capital up front. Mentioned alongside the sixteen cooperative initiatives on the homepage’s Employ the World section. Coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry; see the dispatch report.
Concordance (Three Fates)
The three-vote agreement step: three independent Shadow E-Giant™ passes, each looking from a different angle (correctness, consistency, coverage), have to agree before an answer is written to the substrate. Two-of-three disagreeing trips the Andon Cord. See How It Works.
Conduit
The way to reach your MnemosyneC assistant from a machine other than the one it’s installed on — sign in, install, and pick the conversation back up elsewhere. See Conduit. Patent pending, Provisional 25 and Provisional 28 (owner-keyed sharing between a member’s own machines, and signed member-to-member networking).
Constellation
The other machines in your own fleet that you choose to federate with. They can be asked a question before it escalates all the way to a human, and share back whatever they’ve already verified. See Constellation.
Cooperative Defensive Patent Pledge
The pledge (#2260) under which the cooperative’s patent portfolio is filed: the innovations are for members and the public to use, build on, and earn from, not sold off for extraction. Every provisional application in the family — for example Provisional 24 — is filed under this pledge by name in its own text. See Licensing.
Cooperative-class
The estate’s word for trust that is earned through use, hardened through verification, and kept alive by a community continuing to rely on it — as opposed to “extraction-class” platforms that centralize trust under one authority. See How It Works.
Cost+20%
The pricing rule the cooperative uses when it hires a member business to do work the cooperative needs: the business is paid its cost plus 20%. See the Employ the World section of the homepage. Coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry; see the dispatch report.
Credits
A second unit, alongside Marks, that members can earn for work done under the cooperative’s published rules. See the Employ the World section. Patent pending, Provisional 27 (disclosed as guarded contributor credit).
Cue Deck
The set of short, single-purpose cards on the homepage and its linked pages — each one doing one job, such as pointing to the receipts, the Kitchen Table, or a Bounty Poster — rather than one long page trying to say everything at once. Coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry; see the dispatch report.
The Diagnosis
The human cooperative peer network MnemosyneC escalates to only after its own pipeline and its Constellation peers can’t reach an answer. See How It Works and The Diagnosis.
DORA
Short for Derive Once, Remember Always: pay the cost of working a method out one time, then replay it as ordinary code afterward, at no further model cost. This is the idea behind the “5.32 billion tokens in reach” line and the “0 model calls” receipts. See The Cost Collapse and Receipts. Patent pending, Provisional 24 (disclosed as provenance-labeled, zero-model-call replay).
Eblet
A single verified-correct entry in the substrate: SHA256-stamped when it’s written, and never edited afterward — only added to. See How to Read the Substrate. Coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry as its own claimed term; see the dispatch report.
Frontier Mesh
The idea that your installed copy of MnemosyneC is one node in a larger cooperative network: what a mesh of machines shares is the whole substrate (its stored answers and methods), not just spare computing power. See Your Frame Is One Node of the Frontier Mesh. Patent pending, Provisional 28 (disclosed as member-node compute pooling and member-governed dispatch).
Gemma
Google’s open-weight language model, run locally through Ollama at no per-call cost, with no cloud account and no API key. It plays the Reader role in MnemosyneC. See Gemma.
Glass Door
An estate word for keeping a process visible to the people it affects, so decisions aren’t made out of sight. Not yet used in this site’s public copy; included here at the Founder’s request. Coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry; see the dispatch report.
Hex Connector
A fixed-size pointer — about 50 tokens — that resolves to a Celpane and, from there, to the full record behind it. The flat 50-token cost holds whether the store behind it holds a thousand files or 660,000. See Hex Connectors reached a 5.32-billion-token store. Patent pending, Provisional 25 (disclosed as flat-cost retrieval).
HexIsle
A physical, buildable piece system tied to the cooperative’s community and gaming work. Not yet used in this site’s public copy; included here at the Founder’s request. Coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry; see the dispatch report.
Hollerith Card
A stored, reusable method for answering one specific question, written once and then run as ordinary code from then on, with no model call needed to reuse it. Named after the punch cards that let early computers run a fixed procedure without a person re-deriving it each time. See The Cost Collapse and Receipts. Patent pending, Provisional 25 (disclosed as verified executable method cards).
Hot, Warm, and Catacombs
The three temperature tiers every entry in the substrate lives in. Hot entries are answered in milliseconds because they’ve been asked recently. Warm entries are still correct but fading from active use. Cold (“Catacombs”) entries are archived, not deleted, and can be re-warmed if confirmed again. See How to Read the Substrate.
Interdependence
The cooperative’s word for members relying on each other rather than each acting alone — “When we lock arms, Interdependence wins the day.” Coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry, and not a technical claim; see the dispatch report.
Joules
A unit the cooperative issues and tracks in an append-only ledger for certain purchased actions, so spending is recorded rather than estimated. Patent pending, Provisional 26 (disclosed as self-terminating, per-unit, append-only spend ledgers).
Keyhole
A small, fixed set of pointers — twelve, in the estate’s own memory design — that a reader uses to find the one full topic file it needs, instead of loading everything at once. Each pointer resolves to a Celpane first; a second, explicit step opens the full file. Not yet used in this site’s public copy in that name; included here at the Founder’s request. Patent pending, Provisional 24 (disclosed as a fixed-cardinality connector index resolving to bounded payload panes).
Kitchen Table
A place to post a real recipe, let neighbors pre-order it for a set night, and run it as a small weekly subscription — “the whole economy, in one neighborhood, on one Thursday.” See Kitchen Table. Coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry; see the dispatch report.
Korsakoff’s
The medical term this site borrows to describe what happens when an AI model has no memory of its own past sessions: it doesn’t just forget, it fills the gap with a confident guess. The substrate is described as the cure. See How to Read the Substrate. Not a technical claim; coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry.
Marks
A cooperative participation unit members earn for work done under the cooperative’s published rules — not a wage, and not a security; Marks do not convert to cash. See the Employ the World section and Research Marks. Patent pending, Provisional 26 (disclosed as escrowed Marks with a pay-on-adoption vote).
MCSL 2.0
The source-available license the cooperative’s software ships under. See Licensing for the license itself; not a patent claim.
Medallion
A physical token used to confirm identity and mark community participation. Patent pending, Provisional 2 (Physical Authentication Medallion) and Provisional 26 (a medallion awarded on a pay-on-adoption vote).
MnemosyneC
The AI memory product this site is about: software that gives any AI a persistent, verified, append-only memory (the Substrate) instead of starting over every session. See the homepage. Part of the invention family disclosed across Provisionals 1 through 28; not tied to any single provisional number.
Open Water
A recruiting theme inviting people who don’t yet have a defined role to bring what they’re good at. Not yet used in this site’s public copy; included here at the Founder’s request. Coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry.
Pheromone
The signal strength on a piece of substrate knowledge. New claims start as a pheromone; verification and continued use keep it warm, and disuse lets it fade toward the Catacombs, so old guesses die out on their own instead of being manually pruned. See How to Read the Substrate. Patent pending, Provisional 23 (disclosed as pheromone routing).
Plow Loop
The retry-until-verified process behind an answer: keep looping — at $0 per call locally — until the answer clears verification, then store it so the next Ask never has to loop again. See How It Works. Patent pending, Provisional 22 (disclosed as a multi-specialist Plow with adversarial verification).
Provenance
How well an answer’s trail back to its source can be checked. This site draws a hard line between two different senses of the word: the hash-and-replay chain (every stored answer traces back to the card that produced it, measured at 300 of 300) and a source a stranger can independently check (measured far lower, and rising as cards are backfilled — see Research Marks). See The Cost Collapse. Patent pending, Provisional 24 (disclosed as closed-vocabulary provenance carried on every answer).
Reader, Verifier, Accumulator
MnemosyneC’s three layers. The Reader (Gemma, or your paid AI of choice) answers the question. The Verifier (Shadow E-Giant concordance) checks whether the answer is correct. The Accumulator (the Eblet store) saves it for next time. See How It Works.
Schrodinger’s Answer
A result that is neither confirmed correct nor confirmed wrong — a genuine third outcome, not a placeholder for one of the other two — held open rather than forced into a verdict it hasn’t earned. Patent pending, Provisional 24 (disclosed as a contested third terminal state).
Sealed Prediction
A prediction that is written down and hash-stamped before the test that will judge it runs, so anyone can later confirm the call was made in advance rather than after the fact. See Sealed Prediction · Hash Line · 2026-09-16. This glossary does not repeat the predicted numbers, which stay sealed until the run finishes. Patent pending, Provisional 25 (disclosed as sealed answer validation).
Shadow E-Giant
The verification mechanism behind Concordance: three independent passes over the same question, from three different angles, that have to agree before an answer is trusted. See How It Works.
Six Degrees
A cooperative connection mechanic for finding how closely two members, or a member and an opportunity, are linked. Patent pending, Provisional 8 (Six Degrees connection engine).
Stone Tablet
An entry in the substrate that has been confirmed so many times, by so many members, over enough time, that it is promoted to permanent, load-bearing canon — it doesn’t decay the way a pheromone does. See How to Read the Substrate. Patent pending, Provisional 26 (disclosed as answer tablets mined from corroborated rulings).
Substrate
Your own verified-knowledge accumulator: a flat, append-only file of everything your AI has confirmed, that any AI can read, on your own machine. Not a database, not a vector store, not a model — a record you can open and check yourself. See How to Read the Substrate. Patent pending, Provisional 15 (AI Memory Architecture with Substrate Pre-Injection), continued in Provisionals 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, and 23.
The Sweet Sixteen
The sixteen cooperative initiatives funded by the fee that comes out of what the Substrate saves AI companies — never “fifteen,” even where an earlier paper used that count. See the Employ the World section and the sixteen initiatives. Not a technical claim; coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry.
The Third Column
A place in a record, alongside “yes” and “no,” reserved for an upheld correction — so a challenge that turns out to be right is added to the record rather than simply overwriting the original answer. See Research Marks. Coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry; see the dispatch report.
Twelve Cities
A cooperative program organizing local participation by city. Not yet used in this site’s public copy; included here at the Founder’s request. Coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry.
You Can Do Better
An open invitation for someone else to take what the cooperative has shipped and make a better version of it, under the site’s license. As of this writing the reservation process for that program is not yet finished, so this entry names the idea only and does not link a submission form. Coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry.
$5 Membership
The cooperative’s yearly membership fee: one price, one vote, no securities. See Join the Cooperative. Not a technical claim; coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry.
83.3 Percent
The published share of every dollar that stays with the Workers, Builders, and Creators who make the cooperative’s work, as stated on the homepage. Not a technical claim; coverage unconfirmed against the filing registry.
Glossary · MnemosyneC · Liana Banyan Corporation. Patent pending on the terms marked above, under the Cooperative Defensive Patent Pledge (#2260). Where a term is marked “coverage unconfirmed,” that means our filing registry did not confirm it by title or section heading as of this page’s date — not that the term is unimportant, and not that it is uncovered. See all proofs and receipts.