CueCrux Platform Glossary

A unified, platform-wide glossary covering every plane of CueCrux: Engine, WebCrux, FactoryCrux, WatchCrux, SDKCrux, OpsCrux, InfraCrux, AgentCrux, SupportCrux, Private Stack, CRUX economy, ATAM, PlanCrux and Cue.
Definitions draw directly from the official master plans. Version (V1.0)

If you want a guided tour of these terms:

Core Concepts

CueCrux

The full platform: a proof-driven knowledge and automation system built on evidence, provenance, and trustworthy compute. It includes the Engine, WebCrux, FactoryCrux, WatchCrux, SDKCrux, InfraCrux, OpsCrux, AgentCrux, SupportCrux, Private Stack, CRUX economy, PlanCrux, and governance layers.

Know With Certainty

CueCrux’s core promise: answers, artefacts, agents, and actions must be provably correct, verifiable, and transparent, backed by receipts and evidence.

Planes

The platform is composed of distinct "planes," each with strict boundaries:

Engine Plane: truth & proof.
Web Plane: UI, auth, BFF.
Ingestion Plane: FactoryCrux.
Operator Plane: WatchCrux.
Infrastructure Plane: InfraCrux.
Automation Plane: AgentCrux & OpsCrux.
Economic Plane: CRUX economy.
Tenant Plane: Private Stack.

Engine & Evidence Terms

Engine

The proof-first answer engine. Performs hybrid retrieval, QUORUM (MiSES) selection, ranking, evidence hashing, citation extraction, and receipt generation.

CROWN

Counterfactual, Reputation-Weighted, Origin-Verified, Workflow-eNcoded retrieval and provenance system.
Adds: receipts, snapshots, evidence roles, counterfactual searches, and origin verification.

QUORUM (MiSES) - Quorum of Unified Observations and Referenced Underlying Material

Evidence selection rule that forms a MiSES (Minimal Evidence Set) per claim: the minimal non-redundant set of independent artefacts/citations required to support the atomic claims in an answer. Ensures correctness without evidence bloat.

MiSES (Minimal Evidence Set)

The smallest non-redundant bundle of evidence that still supports a claim (or a small cluster of claims). MiSES are produced by QUORUM (MiSES) to keep proofs tight and inspectable.

Artefact

The smallest verifiable unit of knowledge inside CueCrux. An artefact can be a paragraph from a webpage, a figure in a report, a policy line from a PDF, or a dataset record. Artefacts are stored with a provenance envelope (URL or document ID, observed timestamp, content hash, licence, and related integrity/policy metadata) so they can be cited, replayed, and audited.

Perofant™ (Evidence Database)

Perofant™ is the evidence database where artefacts live. It stores artefacts with provenance and policy metadata so answers are built on traceable inputs (not opaque “model memory”), and so receipts can replay the exact evidence later.

Hybrid Retrieval

Blend of:

BM25/FTS
Vector (pgvector HNSW)
Reputation & licensing signals
Recency decay

C³ - Cost-Conditioned Cascades

Budgeting system that enforces cost and latency envelopes for:

light
verified
audit

Evidence Hash (BLAKE3)

Content-level hashing for detection of mutations or source drift.

Citation

A structured quoting unit for evidence:

URL
quote span
timestamp
hash
licence
domain

Claim Graph

Graph structure representing atomic claims and the evidence that supports or contradicts them.

Snapshot (CROWN Snapshot)

Immutable record containing:

retrieval parameters
model parameters
seed
fusion weights
evidence sets
signature

Receipt

Cryptographically signed, reproducible record showing exactly how the answer was assembled.

Trust, Bias & Integrity

ATAM - Auth, Trust & Anti-Manipulation

Cross-platform trust framework covering:

anti-collusion signals
retraction/venue risk
prompt-injection firewalls
brigading resistance
fair weighting (never censorship)

Contradiction Detector

Surfaces conflicts across independent sources; defeats selective quoting & confirmation bias.

Primary-Hop Rule

Prefer primary sources over secondary summarising sites.

Retraction Sync

Integration with Crossref/Retraction Watch to down-weight retracted sources.

Venue Reputation

Signals based on academic/publisher quality to reduce citation cartels.

Media Provenance (C2PA)

Authenticity signals for images or media when available.

Trust Findings (PASS/WARN/FAIL)

Integrity verdicts surfaced by WatchCrux and rendered in WebCrux. PASS means integrity checks cleared for the chosen mode. WARN means something needs attention (stale evidence, low diversity, weak licence, performance drift). FAIL means a required integrity gate failed and the UI may block or degrade until re-run or resolved.

WebCrux & Frontend Terms

WebCrux

Nuxt-powered frontend using a secure BFF (Backend-For-Frontend). Never exposes Engine tokens.

BFF

Server-side proxy for all Engine calls. Enforces:

authentication
rate-limits
C³ mode selection
provenance display

Mode Badges

User-visible indicators: light, verified, audit.

Why Trust Panel

UI explanation of:

evidence
timestamps
domains
contradictions
licence health
Plus direct links to QUORUM (MiSES) evidence sets (MiSES) and receipts in verified/audit runs.

Session Ledger

Record of device sessions & refresh tokens for security.

FactoryCrux (Ingestion)

FactoryCrux

The ingestion pipeline that turns URLs, PDFs, or text into licence-aware, signed artefacts via Temporal workflows.

Policy-Aware Fetcher

Respects:

robots.txt
X-Robots-Tag
licence metadata
conditional GET (ETag/Last-Modified)

Staging Spine

Tables: factory_sources, factory_jobs, factory_events.

Plan Execution

Chunking → Embedding → Indexing → Provenance → CRUX minting.

Ingestion Modes

Follows light/verified/audit, aligned with C³ budgets.

WatchCrux (Independent Operator)

WatchCrux

Always-on operator performing:

health checks
readiness
metrics scrape
version drift detection
audit orchestration
artefact storage

Operator Status

A JSON artefact summarising all monitored services.

Phase-Test Audit

Deterministic runner validating:

lint
typecheck
tests
OpenAPI
SBOM
coverage

Version Drift Rules

Alerts when:

build_info versions diverge
sdkVersion ranges break compat

SDKCrux (Shared Contracts)

SDKCrux

Standardised toolkit for:

Errors
DTOs
Retries
/healthz schema
build/compat fields
Prometheus metrics ingestion

Public Engine Client

OpenAPI-derived client for answers/search only.

Internal Packages

core
engine
bff
watch
factory

InfraCrux (Infrastructure & Reliability)

InfraCrux

Platform runtime & observability plane: Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, networks, TLS, backups, DR.

/healthz Contract

Every plane must expose:

ok
build.version
build.commit
compat.requires
sdkVersion

Prometheus Metrics

Golden signals:

latency
error ratios
citations
domain diversity
cost

DR Targets

PITR ≤ 30 min
ClickHouse nightly backup
Restore drill monthly

OpsCrux (Control Tower)

OpsCrux

Unified console for:

budgets
p95/error/queue
release approvals
synthetic journeys
prompts
P&L
backup status

Prompt Warehouse

Versioned prompt storage & binding for agents, Engine, SupportCrux.

Interop Dashboard

Uptime + latency per endpoint (direct/blackbox/synthetic).

Change Calendar

Governance for releases, maintenance, drills.

AgentCrux (Automation & Agents)

AgentCrux

Automation framework running semi-autonomous agents: Researcher, Triage, Planner, Budgeter, Auditor, Release.

Agent Config (Budgets)

Per-agent envelopes:

max_cost_gbp
max_runtime_ms
cron
mode

Agent State

heartbeats
receipts
queue depth
LLM spend

MCP Tools

Developer-facing tools used by agents for workflow actions (patch/edit tools, git operations, test runners, etc.).

LLM Adapter

Unified interface routing between OpenAI & Ollama depending on mode.

SupportCrux

Integrated support desk with AI triage using citations & provenance.

Triage Pipeline

FAQ embedding → similarity → verified answer → agent routing.

Support Metrics

Includes auto-answer %, latency, escalations.

Private Stack (Siloed Tenant Plane)

Private Stack

Dedicated tenant-isolated deployment of the entire CueCrux platform.

Tenant Namespace

Isolates:

k8s namespace
DB schemas
storage
task queues

Federated Proof Bridge

Allows hash-only verification by WatchCrux without exposing tenant data.

Extension SDK

Tenant-specific logic: onIngest, onAnswer, custom agents.

CRUX Economy

CRUX (Credit Resource Unit eXchange)

Internal, non-transferable participation credit that tracks how much verified compute and storage you have earned or prepaid (older notes sometimes expand CRUX as “Credited Resource Usage eXchange”).
CRUX valuation is dynamic and indexed to the Proof Cost Index (PCI); there is no fixed currency peg.

Proof Cost Index (PCI)

A pricing index used to keep CRUX aligned to real operating costs (compute + storage). PCI moves over time so “1 CRUX” tracks actual verification cost rather than a fixed currency peg.

CRUX Minting

Rewards for:

QUORUM (MiSES) inclusion (MiSES = Minimal Evidence Set)
link contributions
uploads
audit receipts
agent usage

goals
tasks
services
port maps
procedures
audits
logs
progress snapshots

fast ask
watch metrics
agent triggers
ingest flows
personal RAG

/healthz
/readyz
/metrics
build/compat/sdkVersion