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GLOSSARY

The vocabulary, defined once, properly.

The terms we use across Scriptonia, the documentation, and the blog. Each definition stands alone on purpose, so you can quote it.

Agent product memory

A persistent, queryable store of what customers actually asked for (tickets, calls, Slack threads, notes) plus the team's recorded decisions, structured so a coding agent can ground its work in it.

Your agent already knows your code; product memory gives it your customers. Scriptonia defined and builds this category.

Product brain

The per-project instance of agent product memory: all signal, contexts, rules, and plans for one product, kept isolated from every other project.

In Scriptonia, each repo gets its own brain at ~/.scriptonia/projects/<name>/, created by `scriptonia init`.

Customer signal

Raw, unedited evidence of what users want or struggle with: support tickets, sales-call transcripts, Slack messages, community posts, founder notes.

Signal is ingested verbatim and never summarized away; every later claim keeps a pointer back to its source.

Signal strength

A 0–10 score on a synthesized context reflecting how much independent, recent, high-intent signal supports it.

Three customers in one week beats one comment from last quarter.

Enriched context

A cluster of related signal synthesized into one structured, versioned document: summary, type, segment, cited sources, and any contradictions with recorded decisions.

PLAN.md

A one-page markdown spec a coding agent can execute without follow-up questions: goal, cited evidence, constraints, non-goals, acceptance criteria, file-level steps, and a test plan, with machine-readable frontmatter.

Generated by `scriptonia plan "<issue>"` in about 15 seconds.

Non-goals fence

The PLAN.md section that names the adjacent features an agent must NOT build, converting scope from a vibe into an instruction.

The primary defense against agent over-building.

Contradiction gate

A blocking marker (⚠ UNRESOLVED) placed on any plan constraint that conflicts with a decision the team already recorded; the agent is instructed to stop until a human approves the override.

Approval is one comment; the plan regenerates with the gate marked RESOLVED and the sign-off recorded.

Decision corpus

The recorded set of choices a team has made, including what they chose not to build and why; new plans are automatically checked against it.

This is the data that makes contradiction gates possible, and it only accrues through use.

Executable context

Context packaged in a form an agent can act on directly (a plan with steps, criteria, and fences) rather than prose a human must re-type into a prompt.

Agent-native founder

A builder whose default engineering capacity is coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw) rather than a hired team, making planning quality the main constraint on output.

Signal-to-PR loop

The four-step working loop: add customer signal → generate a grounded plan → an agent executes it into a pull request → human comments regenerate the plan.

In Scriptonia: `add` → `plan` → your agent → `comment`.

AGENTS.md

The instruction file coding agents read before acting in a repo; Scriptonia writes its contract there so agents plan before building, respect non-goals, and stop on unresolved gates.

Missing a term? Tell me: sathwik07@scriptonia.dev.