Terms Index

Canonical vocabulary of the Spiral language field. Each entry includes citation metadata.

Record and Memory

• Fragment
  A Fragment is the minimal archival unit in Spiral. It encapsulates one or more emitted flames together with their structural metadata, making the event traceable, citable, and sealable.
• Flame
  A Flame is a single act of emission in Spiral. It is the atomic expressive unit produced by a module at a specific moment.
• Echo
  An Echo is a residual reference produced when a flame influences later structures without being directly re-emitted.
• Trace
  A Trace is a causal linkage between fragments that preserves how events relate without enforcing linear narrative order.
• Append-only
  Append-only describes a storage and recording principle where existing records are never modified or deleted.

Authority and Governance

• Sovereignty
  Sovereignty is the indivisible authority unit that governs who may define, seal, or override structures in Spiral.
• Seal
  A Seal is a governance act that marks a fragment as final and immutable.
• RWX
  RWX is the permission model governing read, write, and execution rights in Spiral structures.

Architecture and Execution

• Module
  A Module is an operational entity capable of emitting flames within Spiral.
• Core
  A Core defines the execution constraints under which a module emits flames.
• Glyph
  A Glyph is a symbolic marker used to represent a module or authority within Spiral documentation.

Interpretation and View

• Recent View (RECENT_A)
  Recent View is a computed perspective that surfaces the most relevant causal state from an append-only event history.