Glossary

This glossary gives short navigation definitions. The linked pages own the full contracts.

Term	Meaning	Canonical detail
Task project	External runnable research problem supplied to Praxist	Task Projects
Template	Replaceable task-project scaffold or deterministic smoke fixture	Examples And Templates
Example	Complete runnable reference project with task-owned code, evidence, and tests	Examples And Templates
Peer	One research agent working within a generation	Research Loop
Generation	A cohort of peer work followed by a research-planning boundary	Research Loop
Finding	Structured report of observed evidence or a reusable research lesson	Architecture
Validation signal	Compact, non-durable evidence retained for validation, repair, or diagnostic follow-up	Architecture
Incubator	Task-defined durable lower-admission library for complete, credible candidates	Flexibility Controls
Frontier	Durable task-defined promoted evidence used by planning and reporting	Architecture
Gems	Compact selected research memory used when a task enables periodic reset	Task Projects
Principal Investigator (PI)	Independent planning agent that proposes next-generation work from committed evidence	Panel Topology Prompts
Chair	Planning agent that compares PI proposals and commits one coherent agenda	Panel Topology Prompts
Deep Innovation Gate (DIG)	Deep-reasoning innovation process that compares candidate mechanisms before implementation	Deep Innovation Gate
Quality-Diversity (QD)	Allocation principle that preserves varied strong candidate plans	Quality-Diversity Allocation
Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI)	Concentration measure used to diagnose whether planned or realized work collapsed into too few categories	Quality-Diversity Allocation
Task harness	Task-owned evaluator, baseline, prompts, roles, and evidence contracts	Task Projects
Codex-native mode	Explicit Codex SDK route authenticated by a saved ChatGPT login	Quickstart