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Glossary

A shared vocabulary for the library, the apps and the agent. The same list is available to the prose as a term shortcode.

Library

triple content hash filehost tiedir dir-type collection tag mount verify

Agent

harness overlay promote probe session Risor

Everything else

TermMeaning
blobThe bytes of a file, stored once under their hash.
reverse indexAn opt-in relation index that answers “who points at this value?”.
tombstoneA deleted record whose slot is reused; the file does not grow while holes exist.
file versionA previous manifest/tree that contained the same content hash.
dir-typeThe type of a directory: audio, image, video, document, archive, or a custom one.
pwplayThe PipeWire audio engine used by tie-audio.
fynerisorRisor bindings for Fyne, used for scripted panes and tie-browser scenes.
tiestyleThe shared Fyne theme package behind the apps’ surfaces and accents.