| IdentIA | programme / frame. Not the installable product |
| SiS / Self-Improving Society | the product you install |
Host / agents-host | sovereign organisational unit; one agent harness container |
| Profile / agent | agent harness profile inside a host. Identity = host+name pair |
| Institution | YAML spec of departments, profiles and trust |
| Primary Host | host-1 / society-agents-host; bootstrap |
| Architect | profile that proposes specs; does not apply |
| Executor | gated executor; applies what was approved; publishes no port |
| Console | Product UI on :8093 |
| Conversation UI | primary chat UI (:3000 / copilot.*) or alternate stack (:3080 / chat.*) → Conversation Gateway |
| Audited envelope | deliverable trail; not a cryptographic signature |
| Ontology bank | ontology catalog; RDF/SHACL catalogue, not the live graph |
| Code graph | compiled graph of this repo's source |
| Episodic context | agent session memory layer |
| MAP | historical institution example; does not exist in any environment |
| Stage | local sis-stage tooling; not a named environment |
sis-interna | internal container network; no egress |
| Kill-switch | default-off flag enabling spawn / RAG write / publish / auto-approve |