Canwu terminology

Use this page to look up a Canwu term: its English and Chinese names, the matching code identifier, and what it means. Linked terms have their own page with more detail; the others are defined here and in the API documentation.

If you write Canwu documentation, use the listed term for each language, keep code identifiers unchanged, and avoid the alternatives marked as deprecated in the last table. In Chinese prose, you may add the English term or code name in parentheses at first use, for example 模拟插件 (simulation plugin). The source of truth is docs/terminology.md; this page mirrors it.

Product and runtime boundaries

English	中文规范写法	Code or API	Meaning and use
Canwu	参伍	Canwu	Product name and main public API entry point. Do not translate the brand as a generic noun.
headless historical simulation engine	无界面历史模拟引擎	—	Canwu’s product category: it simulates historical worlds without owning rendering, audio, or production UI.
simulation core	模拟内核	canwu-sim	The private runtime that owns mutable authoritative state, scheduling, settlement, persistence, and replay.
host application	上层应用	—	A game, research tool, service, client, or agent system that embeds Canwu. Chinese prose uses 上层应用, not 主机程序.
public API	对外 API	canwu-api	The supported API boundary for application code.
simulation run	模拟运行	run_id	One causally continuous execution with its own identity, inputs, state, and evidence.
scenario	场景	Scenario	The initial world and configuration used to create a simulation.
authoritative state	权威状态	SimulationSnapshot	State owned and validated by Canwu and used as the basis for commitments, persistence, and replay.
ground truth	真值	—	Facts present in authoritative state whether or not a particular actor knows them.
actor-relative view	角色相对视图	CanwuViewer, ViewerContext	A read surface derived from one actor’s knowledge and authority rather than omniscient state.
read-only snapshot	只读快照	WorldSnapshot	A detached state value for trusted reads, not a mutable reference to the live runtime.
simulation granularity	模拟粒度	SimulationGranularity	A domain-neutral engine level: aggregate, group, or actor. A Celestial Mandate integration may map them to Population, Special Group, and Character.
aggregate	聚合层	SimulationGranularity::Aggregate	Coarse population-, economy-, or region-scale state. A host application may map it to Population.
group	群体层	SimulationGranularity::Group	A bounded social, institutional, military, or organizational group. A host application may map it to Special Group.
actor	角色层	SimulationGranularity::Actor	A person or other principal with knowledge and authority. A host application may map it to Character.

Time, input, and settlement

English	中文规范写法	Code or API	Meaning and use
wall time	现实时间	—	Real elapsed time observed by the host application. It never enters authoritative state directly.
simulation time	模拟时间	SimTime, SimDuration	Deterministic, representable time settled by Canwu.
presentation time	表现时间	—	Client-side animation or interpolation time; it may be fractional and is not authoritative.
command	命令	Command, CommandEnvelope	A typed request to change authoritative state through structural, precondition, and authority checks.
domain command	领域命令	Command::Plugin	Typed intent defined by a domain integration and validated through public canonical ingress.
canonical ingress	规范化输入	IngressRecord	The persisted, deterministically ordered input path for commands, communication, information, and scheduled systems.
admission	准入	—	The decision and cut that determine which pending inputs belong to a boundary. It is not a synonym for ingress.
plugin ingress cancellation	插件输入撤回	cancel_plugin_ingress, IngressPayload::PluginCancellation	Terminal withdrawal of one still-queued plugin ingress item strictly before its due time, journaled as its own record. The withdrawn item is never admitted; nothing is rolled back.
cancellation authority	撤回权限	IngressCancellationAuthority	Who withdrew a queued plugin item: the host for public packets it enqueued, the owning plugin’s registration permit for its internal packet type, or a boundary system of the plugin that scheduled the item. Only the issuer may withdraw.
scheduled work	调度工作	—	Work assigned a deterministic simulation due time and insertion order.
boundary	结算边界	BoundaryRequest, BoundaryRecord	One validated, all-or-nothing settlement pass that admits work, runs systems in fixed phases, records evidence, and commits or rolls back.
settlement phase	结算阶段	BoundaryPhase	One position in the fixed boundary execution order, not an independent settlement algorithm.
atomic commit	原子提交	—	Applying all validated boundary changes together so observers never see partial state.
rollback	回滚	—	Restoring state, evidence, counters, and random positions when a boundary fails.
transition manifest	转移清单	TransitionManifest, BoundaryDirective::RegisterTransitionManifest	A coordinating plugin’s declaration of the participant plugins, expected record versions, and single ready boundary of one multi-owner transition. Participants stage their writes with StageTransitionWrite in phase 10 of that boundary; phase-10 directives outside a manifest are unaffected.
transition audit	转移审计	TransitionAuditRecord	The kernel’s phase-11 check of every manifest ready at a boundary. A partially staged manifest or a wrong expected version fails the whole boundary; a manifest no participant staged expires. The committed or expired outcome is read-only boundary evidence for phase-12 systems.

Plugins and extensions

English	中文规范写法	Code or API	Meaning and use
plugin	插件	—	Generic term. Qualify it when confusion with Codex or another tool plugin is possible.
simulation plugin	模拟插件	SimulationPlugin	A runtime registration unit implementing Canwu’s public plugin contract. Its name, version, and semantic hash identify the executable behavior required for loading and exact replay.
domain extension	模拟领域扩展	—	An optional domain-specific delivery package built on public engine contracts. It may contain one or more plugins, domain types, schemas, commands, queries, and supporting APIs. No DomainExtension trait is required.
simulation module	模拟模块	—	An informal, human-facing name for a coherent simulation capability, such as the social diffusion simulation module. It may be implemented by an extension and its plugins, but it is not an engine contract.
culture system SDK	文化系统 SDK	canwu-culture	A published optional authoring, compilation, and lifecycle extension above canwu-society; it validates content and produces a deterministic execution plan without becoming a core subsystem.
legal institutionalization	法律制度化	canwu-law	An experimental downstream extension that advances proceedings from admitted social evidence, uses controller decisions to record pending legal intents, and atomically writes legal sources, rules, and immutable versions inside a plugin boundary; culture never writes legal state directly.
legal source version	法律渊源版本	LegalSourceVersion	An immutable source record for an instrument, judgment, agreement, customary-recognition finding, received-law schedule, or another configured basis for a legal claim.
legal rule	法律规则	LegalRule	The stable identity and mutable head for one bounded normative rule; its immutable changes live in LawVersion records.
law version	法律版本	LawVersion	A create-only immutable normative change tied to a stable LegalRule, with exact source and predecessor refs, normative relations, applicability, effective and validity state, and evidence; enforcement is separate.
legal record reference	法律记录引用	LegalRecordRef	The exact kind and identity of a legal object within the sharded legal runtime. It is not a kernel DomainRecordVersionRef: law owns its object/version semantics while plan, directory, shard, and archive-head records persist separately.
cultural target generation reference	文化目标代际引用	CulturalTargetGenerationRef	The exact target and generation cited by a legal proposal or version, preventing retirement or reactivation from silently rebinding old evidence.
compiled culture plan	文化执行计划	CompiledCulturePlan	An externally immutable, content-hash-bound runtime plan containing compact IDs, reverse indexes, budgets, and lifecycle policy compiled from a culture definition.
dormant target	休眠目标	Dormant	A culture target with no engaged population or admitted work that has left hot settlement indexes but retains an explicit reactivation descriptor.
retired target	退休目标	Retired	A culture target removed from hot dynamic state while historical identities and evidence remain available through tombstone and archive contracts.
culture boundary plugin	文化结算插件	CultureBoundaryPlugin	The in-engine form of culture settlement: a Monthly phase-7 system consumes admitted exposure batches, persists culture state, and hands society lifecycle deltas to the society plugin, which remains the only society writer. A run uses it instead of the host-driven CulturePlugin flow, not beside it.
exposure signal batch	接触信号批次	CultureExposureSignalBatch, culture_exposure_v1	A bounded, evidence-bearing report that cohorts were exposed to one culture target generation, produced by an information or correspondence provider after access and interpretation and admitted at a later boundary.
cohort headcount rebase	cohort 人口校准	CohortHeadcountRebaseV1, cohort_headcount_rebase_v1	Canonical ingress that resets a cohort’s headcount to a cited external stock record, which must be current when the packet is admitted, and re-proportions every distribution with deterministic integer remainders at the next Daily society settlement.
vote weight	表决权重	ProcedureStageDefinition::seat_weights	The integer weight a seat’s ballot carries in a procedure stage; a seat without an entry weighs 1. Quorum and threshold use summed weights; vetoes are seat powers and are never weighted.
unit block	表决单元	ProcedureStageDefinition::block_of_seat	A group of a stage’s seats that takes one position, the weighted majority of its seats. A block whose weighted votes are evenly divided, or one without counted ballots, takes no position.
block threshold	单元门槛	ProcedureStageDefinition::block_threshold	The number of unit blocks that must take the For position before a blocked stage passes, in addition to its weighted seat rule.
casting seat	决定票席位	casting-seat:<seat> tie-break	A seat named by a procedure’s tie-break whose own For ballot adds one For block when as many blocks are For as Against. It must sit in every blocked stage. The status-quo tie-break adds no block instead.
consultation stage	征询阶段	ProcedureStageKind::Consultation	An advisory procedure stage. Its seats receive tickets marked advisory, and their ballots persist as participation evidence but never count; the stage completes at its deadline and opens the next stage.
technology simulation extension	技术模拟扩展	canwu-technology	The optional generic extension for technique revisions, evidence, local capability, implementation, use-specific adoption, and transmission opportunities. It is not a global technology tree.
external transmission source	外部传播来源	ExternalTransmissionSourceV1	A practice-transmission source outside the simulation, such as an off-map teacher, cited as an initial-scenario content record with a declared reliability instead of a live capability. The destination opens the opportunity.
historical research plugin	历史研究插件	canwu-history-research	An optional simulation plugin that records a researcher’s bounded assessment of evidence without changing base technology truth.
command plugin	命令插件	register_command()	A simulation plugin that registers schema-validated commands and handlers.
boundary system	边界系统	BoundarySystemContract	A declared system that runs in a phase with bounded reads, writes, resources, and randomness.
domain schema	领域 schema	DomainRecordType	A versioned structural contract for plugin-owned domain data. Chinese code-adjacent prose retains schema.
domain record	领域记录	DomainRecord	Typed persisted domain state owned by a plugin rather than the generic world model.
plugin component	插件组件	PluginComponentRecord	Plugin-owned component state attached through declared keys and visibility.
plugin semantic environment	插件语义环境	PluginDescriptor	The exact plugin identities, versions, and semantic hashes required for load or exact replay.
reference content pack	参考内容包	—	A first-party or downstream package of versioned, namespaced, serializable domain definitions, scenario data, localization, and provenance. It supplies content to a domain extension; it is not a kernel subsystem or solver.
reference integration	参考整合包	—	A replaceable public-API implementation that maps generic domain capabilities to a small world, production, information, or society model. It may contain runtime plugins and host-adapter code.
starter kit	入门套件	—	A runnable host and composition example that combines compatible reference content and integrations into a complete vertical slice. It is reference code, not a privileged engine path.
fiscal simulation extension	财政模拟扩展	canwu-fiscal	The generic fiscal-procedure domain extension. It owns law, regional adoption, assessment, authorization, remission, receipt, audit, aggregates, and holder-relative knowledge reports, but not resource balances or transfers.
fiscal historical context	历史财政语境	FiscalHistoricalContext	The explicit historical year and mode used to evaluate active periods and reform candidates. It changes through canonical ingress and never applies reforms automatically.
fiscal coverage cell	财政覆盖单元	FiscalCoverageCell	One period-region-mechanism cell resolved by deterministic priority to supported, archetype fallback, explicit unknown, or not applicable.
fiscal execution receipt	财政执行凭证	FiscalExecutionReceiptPacket	A settlement request citing exact typed adapter-result versions. The admitted receipt derives externally observed quantity and disposition from those results. Within one fiscal runtime state, each exact version and each (evidence kind, external_operation_id) pair can settle at most one receipt. It does not own resource truth.
acting actor	代理角色	FiscalAuthorityBinding::acting_actor	A second actor admitted for one binding’s fiscal actions only while its authority basis is the current version of its record. The standing authorized actor is unaffected.
authority basis	权限依据	FiscalAuthorityBinding::authority_basis, MovementOrderRequestV1::authority_basis	The exact application record version, of a kind the owning plugin declares, that grants authority: to a fiscal binding’s acting actor, or to a movement order that moves subjects other than its owner. It must be the current version of its record when checked; a newer or retired version ends a fiscal grant.
resource simulation extension	资源模拟扩展	canwu-resource	The optional conserved-quantity extension for exact resource/unit revisions, accounts, protected floors, demand, reservation, allocation, transfer, accepted delivery, consumption, loss, fulfillment, and deterministic receipts. It does not own money or markets.
production simulation extension	生产模拟扩展	canwu-production	The optional production-asset extension for processes, sites, facilities, capacity, work orders, work in progress, execution, projects, and output settlement. Site form and requirements are revisioned data, not universal building levels.
resource capability stage	资源能力阶段	ResourceCapabilityStage, ResourceCapabilityRevision	An effective-dated revision that places a resource at one stage between potential and delivered supply: potential, observed or surveyed, proven, technically extractable, operating site, route-accessible, or delivered and accepted. Each revision cites its model cards.
protected stock floor	受保护存量底线	ProtectedFloorPolicyRevision	A revisioned policy reserving seed, subsistence, or emergency stock from ordinary allocation unless a separately authorized action overrides it.
account-level loss	账户损耗	ResourceOperationRequestV1::RecordLoss	A loss debited in place from one account, without a transfer, citing its cause. It counts as admitted loss for conservation, never touches reserved stock, and respects the protected floor unless explicitly allowed.
atomic exchange	原子交换	ResourceOperationRequestV1::BeginExchange, ResourceExchangeTermsV1	Two transfer starts admitted or rejected together under one outcome. Each leg’s completion lease is held by its source custodian and bound to the digest of the agreed terms; the two transfers then settle independently.
local acceptance	本地验收	ResourceTransferDispositionV1::AcceptLocal	Settling an undispatched transfer without a transport execution when both accounts declare the same place scope, citing the exact handover record.
place scope	地点范围	ResourceAccount::place_scope	A host-declared, immutable place identity for an account’s stock, set when the scenario installs the account. It is never inferred; without it, local acceptance is unavailable.
access grant	动用授权	ResourceAccessGrantV1, ResourceDemandSourcePolicyV1::Granted	A grantor custodian’s recorded consent, citing exact authority evidence, that a grantee may draw on its stock of one exact resource and unit revision up to a cap within a window. The grantee’s own completion lease authorizes each debit, and nothing falls back to other accounts.
work in progress	在制品	WorkInProgress	Inputs already admitted to an unfinished production execution, with exact process, facility, resource, and evidence bindings. It is neither available inventory nor settled output.
realized output	实际产出	realized_output_per_mille, realization_evidence	A completed execution’s output in thousandths of the nominal process output, floor-scaled into output settlement. Any non-nominal ratio needs an exact evidence record of a kind the process revision declares.
movement lifecycle extension	移动生命周期扩展	canwu-movement, MovementPlugin	The optional extension that owns the lifecycle of transport records: it admits movement orders, settles legs at their due times, allocates capacity pools, and publishes holder-relative movement reports. Incidents, hazards, and their random draws stay in application systems.
military simulation extension	军事模拟扩展	canwu-military	The optional military domain extension for forces, operations, combat, occupation, military knowledge, and pending effects that other domains settle and acknowledge; it is not a universal combat model.
force-supply reference consumer	军事补给参考消费者	canwu-force-supply-reference	A replaceable integration proving that military logistics can consume the shared resource API while owning force-local demand, readiness, shortage consequences, and requisition saga state. It is not a universal combat model.
local scarcity projection	本地稀缺度投影	LocalScarcityProjection	A detached, holder-bound read model explaining observed supply, demand, buffers, route access, security, and policy. It does not claim a price.
price-pressure projection	价格压力投影	PricePressureProjection	A detached read model materialized only from qualifying price-bearing evidence and a revisioned interpretation rule. It neither forms a market nor settles a trade.

Evidence, randomness, and persistence

English	中文规范写法	Code or API	Meaning and use
event	事件	SimEvent	A serializable causal record in authoritative evidence, not a UI notification.
causality	因果关系	CauseRef	The recorded relationship explaining why an event or change occurred.
correlation ID	相关标识	correlation_id	A stable identifier that groups records belonging to one authoritative causal root.
random stream	随机流	RandomStreamKey	A named, versioned deterministic source owned by a declared mechanic.
draw evidence	抽样证据	RandomDrawRecord	The recorded stream, range, operation, and result of one deterministic draw.
random decision policy	随机决策策略	DecisionPolicyKind::Random	A bounded ticket selector resolved by a declared boundary system with replayable draw evidence, not a general world-event generator.
decision option weight	决策选项权重	DecisionOptionWeight	A canonical option ID and nonnegative integer weight mapping one bounded draw to an existing ticket option.
operation-keyed random draw	操作定址随机抽样	random_sample_for_operation	A draw addressed by stable cause, operation ID, target, occurrence, purpose, and stream identity so retries and replay cannot consume another result.
evaluation trace	评估轨迹	EvaluationTraceRecord, BoundaryDirective::RecordEvaluationTrace	Bounded boundary evidence explaining, term by term, how an application rule produced one integer result for one subject. It is never state. A holder reads it through CanwuViewer::evaluation_traces only for its own entity, or for a subject its ledger learned of before the trace was evaluated.
reservation	资源预留	ReservationRequest	A declared request against a conserved resource pool before allocation.
demand source policy	需求来源策略	ResourceDemandSourcePolicyV1	Selects the eligible supply accounts before scarcity arbitration: pooled matching accounts, a bounded exact requester-custodied list, or listed grantor accounts under an access grant. Only the Granted form carries cross-custodian authority, and only within its grant.
allocation	资源分配	ReservationAllocation	The deterministic result of settling competing reservations against supply.
visibility	可见性	StateVisibility	The policy controlling which state and evidence can reach which readers.
snapshot	快照	SimulationSnapshot	A complete persisted state image validated on restore.
checkpoint	检查点	SimulationCheckpoint	A validated compact base state from which later journal evidence can continue.
checkpoint journal	检查点日志	CheckpointJournal	A checkpoint bundled with subsequent evidence for compact persistence and restoration.
exact replay	精确重放	replay_from_journal()	Reconstructing and verifying the same run from recorded input and evidence without rerunning external choices.
alternative reality	平行现实	—	A new causal reality formed by choosing different inputs from a shared prior state; it is not exact replay.
fork	派生分支	fork()	An independent simulation copied from an existing point so it can advance with new input.
state commitment	状态承诺	CommitmentRoots	A cryptographic commitment that binds authoritative state or evidence for validation.
semantic hash	语义哈希	semantic_hash	A stable declaration of plugin behavior used to reject incompatible load or replay environments.
exact domain-record version	精确领域记录版本	DomainRecordVersionRef, domain_record_version()	A domain-record identity, version, and establishment source used to preserve the meaning of historical evidence after the current record changes.

Actors, knowledge, and decisions

English	中文规范写法	Code or API	Meaning and use
actor	角色	PersonId	A person or in-world principal whose knowledge and authority constrain a view or action.
person availability	人物可用性	PersonAvailability	One person’s core life and custody state, changed only by a declared boundary system. A person who is not alive, or who is detained or captive, cannot issue commands, make decisions, or act as a controller’s authority person. No recorded state means alive and free.
life state	生存状态	LifeState	Alive, Dead, or Missing; one half of person availability.
custody state	人身状态	CustodyState	Free, Detained, Hostage, Captive, Hiding, or Exile; the other half of person availability. By default only detained and captive block admission.
person creation	人物创建	BoundaryDirective::CreatePerson, PersonDraft	A phase-7 directive that creates a person from an application draft and provenance with an engine-allocated ID. The receipt binds that ID to the proposing plugin, system, and correlation; the person is visible from the next boundary.
actor knowledge	角色知识	ActorKnowledge	What one actor knows, including source, confidence, and time, stored separately from ground truth.
report	报告	EventKind type "report_dispatched"	Information dispatched or delivered between actors before it can update their knowledge.
holder-relative knowledge	持有人相对知识	KnowledgeHolderRef, KnowledgeReadCut	Facts read from one person, institution, office, or other holder ledger at an exact cut, never from omniscient state.
holder planning snapshot	持有人规划快照	planning_snapshot_from_holder_knowledge, KnowledgeReadCutDigest	A routing PlanningSnapshot built only from the endpoints and connections one holder’s ledger asserts at the read cut, returned with a read-set digest as evidence of what the planner read.
correspondence	通信	CorrespondenceOperation	Addressed communication demand composed with information delivery and, when needed, physical or signal transport.
delegated carrier	受托承运人	delegate_carrier_v1, InitiateCorrespondenceRequest::carrier_delegation	A carrier other than the sender that accepted the carrying through its own delegation command, whose claim names the sender and covers each dispatch. Planning reads the carrier’s ledger, and none of the carrier’s knowledge is published to the sender.
carrier seizure	承运人扣押	CorrespondenceIncidentKind::CarrierSeized	An incident in which someone takes the carrier and the packet. Unlike interception it ends the delivery attempt: after a terminal seizure handoff the transport execution can only be closed by its owner, and only the carrier holder receives an attempt report.
authenticity finding	真伪判定	AuthenticityFinding	An interpreting holder’s judgment, bound to the exact version of one interpreted representation, of whether its claimed source is accepted, with a basis and confidence. How likely a forgery is to be detected stays an application draw.
reroute	改道	ItineraryRevision	A successor itinerary for the same delivery attempt after disruption or changed route knowledge.
external condition	外部条件	ItineraryRevisionReason::ExternalCondition	A reroute reason citing an application-owned condition record at an exact positive version, with an application label. Transport records the citation and does not interpret the condition.
delivery retry	投递重试	DomainReference role "previous_attempt"	A new successor delivery attempt after terminal failure; it is not a reroute of the old attempt.
movement order	移动命令	MovementOrder, MovementOrderRequestV1	An admitted, immutable intent to move one or more subjects from an origin to a destination along a planned route. canwu-movement admits it through its Order operation and creates its transport execution; moving subjects other than the owner needs an authority basis.
persons group	人员群体	MovementSubjectRole::PersonsGroup	A movement subject for an aggregate of people moving as one, with a positive head count as its quantity; its identity is normally an application domain record.
seizure handoff	扣押交接	HandoffKind::Seizure	A custody handoff taken by an entity outside the itinerary, recording the seizing identity. A terminal seizure names its failed leg as both ends, so custody leaves the itinerary and only the execution’s owner can then close it. The incident and authority behind it stay in application systems; every other handoff is a planned handoff.
capacity pool	运力池	TransportCapacityPoolV1	A windowed quantity of interchangeable transport capacity, such as ferry crossings or relay mounts, offered by one holder. Confirmed and consumed bookings hold it, and its revision advances with every change so allocation evidence can cite it.
booking allocation	预订分配	allocate_capacity_bookings, CapacityBookingAllocationEvidenceV1	A pure, order-stable pass over one pool revision that confirms each requested booking in full or fails it with a recorded reason, visiting requests by priority, window start, tie-break key, admission sequence, and booking identity. It never preempts confirmed capacity.
projection	投影	—	A materialized actor-scoped representation that does not expose authoritative domain state.
authority	权限	CommandAuthority	The validated right to issue a command or perform an action. authoritative state is 权威状态.
issuer	签发者	Issuer	The identity presented as the command source; authority checks decide whether it may act.
controller	控制者	DecisionControllerBinding	The entity or process bound to a seat to make decisions.
seat	席位	seat_id	A stable decision-making role that can be bound to a controller.
policy	决策策略	DecisionPolicy	A human, external service, LLM, or deterministic evaluator that selects among current options.
guarded utility policy	前置规则效用策略	GuardedUtilityPolicy	A composite policy: ordered guard rules may select, defer, or exclude options; weighted utility scores the remaining options; an opt-in random tie-break settles near-equivalent top scores. Its semantic hash binds the configuration to the controller.
decision stage	决策阶段	DecisionStage	The composite-policy stage that produced a decision (Guard, Utility, or Random), recorded on the decision trace with the guards that fired. It is unrelated to settlement phases.
random tie-break	随机平局决胜	DecisionOutcome::PendingRandom	An opt-in controller path in which a guarded utility policy names only the near-equivalent top-scored options, and a boundary system chooses among them with one uniform operation-keyed draw.
decision ticket	决策票据	DecisionTicket	A persisted request for one controller to choose among versioned, currently valid options.
parent ticket	前序票据	DecisionTicket::parent_ticket	A terminal ticket that a new ticket follows up: one of the exact same decision maker, such as a cancelled ticket reopened for another controller, or one reached by seat succession. The link is copied onto the new ticket’s trace.
seat succession	席位继任	DecisionControllerBinding::seat_id, DecisionTicket::parent_ticket	Lineage from a terminal ticket to a new ticket whose assigned controller is bound to the same non-empty seat, so a successor can continue a predecessor’s decision without being the same decision maker.
decision option	决策选项	DecisionOption	One candidate choice offered by a decision ticket.
decision attempt	决策尝试	DecisionAttemptRecord	An authoritative record of one admitted decision request and whether it was accepted or rejected. The request may register a controller or open, replace the options of, resolve, or cancel a ticket.
decision trace	决策轨迹	DecisionTrace	Persisted scores, evidence, policy identity, selected option, and outcome used for explanation and replay.

Consolidated wording

Preferred term	Deprecated or restricted alternatives	Scope and migration guidance
simulation core / 模拟内核	kernel	Restricted: use simulation core in product and integration prose; kernel remains permitted in architecture and internal implementation descriptions.
host application / 上层应用	host program / 主机程序	Deprecated: use host application and 上层应用 for a game, service, client, research tool, or agent system that embeds Canwu.
public API / 对外 API	public facade	Deprecated: use public API for the supported application boundary and the broader API surface.
simulation plugin / 模拟插件	runtime simulation plugin / 运行时模拟插件; domain plugin / 模拟规则插件	Restricted: use the longer forms only to contrast runtime plugins with agent tools or to describe a plugin’s domain role. They are not separate plugin kinds.
boundary / 结算边界	transaction, settlement boundary	Deprecated: use boundary for the validated Canwu unit, matching settle_boundary and BoundaryPhase.
alternative reality / 平行现实	反事实分支 / counterfactual branch; branch (when a different input creates a new causal run)	Deprecated: use alternative reality for a new causal reality created by divergent input; use fork only for the API operation and copied simulation.
authority / 权限	permission (when meaning CommandAuthority)	Restricted: use authority for the validated right to act; retain permission profile for the separate run-policy context.

Maintenance rule

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