# Glossary

**Claim layer:** The kind of statement—empirical, participant, historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic, speculative, counterfactual, absurd, or open question.

**Confidence:** Evidential support independent of claim layer: established, supported, tentative, disputed, unknown, or not applicable.

**Engine Output:** The preserved generative field.

**Sentinel handoff:** Separate contextual annotations and requested review capability; never a hidden mutation of Engine Output.

**Mapshift:** A recorded transformation from a default map through operators to a changed map with openings and lineage.

**Node:** A grounded political object with a transferable mechanism.

**Edge:** A typed, conditional, perspectival relationship with epistemic status and provenance.

**Realm:** The situated context in which the System is used.

**Gift / Wound:** Conditional expressions of a capacity, not moral essences.
