A short glossary of the terms used most across this site. Japanese translations are proposals — QA in progress.
Engine concepts
| Term | EN | JP (proposal) | Where used |
|---|
| Wakeup | A scheduled or triggered invocation of an agent. Audit-tracked. | ウェイクアップ | LIFEOSAI |
| Run | One actual agent invocation. queued → running → succeeded/failed. | ラン | LIFEOSAI |
| Issue | The unit of work, Kanban-style. Only one agent runs against an issue at a time. | イシュー | LIFEOSAI |
| Routine | A scheduled workflow that creates wakeups on a cadence. | ルーチン | LIFEOSAI |
| Adapter | The configuration that tells orchestration which runtime/SDK/LLM an agent uses. | アダプター | Agent SDKs |
| Coding agent / runtime | What actually executes an agent — a CLI (Claude Code, Pi Coding Agent, Codex) or an embedded SDK (Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents). | コーディング・エージェント | Coding agents |
Library concepts
| Term | EN | JP (proposal) | Where used |
|---|
| Casefile | A folder of related files about one topic/entity/event. | ケースファイル | Office library |
| Post-it | A structured note written by a Stage-3 analyzer agent. | ポスト・イット | Multi-perspective |
| Story | The clustered narrative across all post-its for one casefile. | ストーリー | Office library |
| Final story | One document per day weaving all active stories — the agent’s cold-start fuel. | ファイナルストーリー | Three feeders |
| Perspective / Lens | A typed reading of source material (CA, Lawyer, Coach, Founder, Architect, …). | パースペクティブ / レンズ | Multi-perspective |
| Provenance | The chain from claim → post-it → source → raw bytes. | プロヴェナンス | Provenance |
Pipeline stages
| Term | EN | JP (proposal) |
|---|
| Puller (Stage 1) | Fetches raw files from connectors. | プラー |
| Converter (Stage 2) | Reads raw → emits readable .md sidecar. | コンバーター |
| Analyzer (Stage 3) | Reads .md through one lens → writes one post-it. | アナライザー |
| Story-builder (Stage 4) | Clusters post-its by casefile → rebuilds story. | ストーリービルダー |
| Person-watcher (Stage 5) | Weaves all stories into the daily final story. | パーソンウォッチャー |
Hooks + memory
| Term | EN | JP (proposal) |
|---|
| SessionStart | Hook firing when an agent session begins. Tier-1 inject lives here. | セッションスタート |
| PreCompact | Hook firing before context compaction. Save state here. | プリコンパクト |
| PostCompact | Hook firing after context compaction. Recovery report here. | ポストコンパクト |
| UserPromptSubmit | Hook firing on user input. Inject recent context here. | ユーザープロンプトサブミット |
| Tier 1 / 2 / 3 | Cold-start inject / mid-conversation skill query / provenance walk. | ティア1 / 2 / 3 |
| Cold-start inject | The ~10K-token block injected at SessionStart. | コールドスタート・インジェクト |
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