The words used

Narrator. Every word this book explains, in one place, each with the chapter where the full book first explains it, or first uses it in its prose (figure lines not counted). Nothing here is new: each line is the book's own, from its word boxes, from the 70-page edition's list, and three the full book adds.

• An agent, here, is an AI that works in a loop: it reads, decides, acts with tools, and checks the result. (chapter 1)
• The blind team, the Cold-Read team, read the talk's record in a separate repository with nothing of this book's work but the hand-off that started it; nothing went the other way. (chapter 19)
• The board is a folder per member of its own work, sorted into open, blocked and done. (chapter 10)
• The build turns the project's files into the site. (chapter 2)
• The check (the team called it the gate) runs before every change goes out, and refuses the change if anything on its list fails. (chapter 2)
• A commit is one saved change to a repository, with a time and a short message saying what changed. (chapter 4)
• The conductor is the agent that keeps the team's time and plan. (chapter 3)
• A debrief is the short note an agent writes at the end of each wake. (chapter 6)
• A follow-up is a wake a member starts itself, to finish something. (chapter 6)
• To freeze something is the same idea as a lock, said in a hurry: nobody touches it until it is unfrozen. (chapter 16)
• The gate is the check every change must pass before it goes out. (chapter 7)
• A handover is the note one session leaves for the session that takes its place. (chapter 20)
• A hold is one short file that stops every agent until the person in charge says go. (chapter 3)
• The clock in the margin counts the talk's day in hours: hour one runs from midnight to a minute before one, and the talk was due as hour nineteen ended. (chapter 4)
• To lock a part is to mark it final, so that no agent may change it again. (chapter 16)
• The mailroom is a folder per member where others leave it letters. (chapter 10)
• An open wake is one that started and never closed on the team's branch, like deck's of 18:20, still open when the hold came. (chapter 16)
• The player is the part of the talk's site that let me press play on stage. (chapter 1)
• A repository is the project's folder, with its whole history kept. (chapter 4)
• A reviewer is a second agent that reads the plan before the work and the result after it. (chapter 7)
• A member's scope is the list of files and folders it may change. (chapter 6)
• A session is one agent's working life: the conversation it runs in, from its first instruction to its last. (chapter 20)
• A wake is one turn of work by one agent. (chapter 7)
• A wake record is the file each wake leaves behind, with every step's verdict and a sentence on why. (chapter 7)
• A Wardley map is a picture that shows what something depends on and how settled each part is. (chapter 8)

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Where this came from

The full book's own word boxes, chapter by chapter. The 70-page edition's list of the words used, for the words the full book uses without a box. The margin clock's hours as the register sets them (C110; the conductor's CK1). Chapter 16 for the open wake and chapter 19 for the blind team. The storyteller's outline for the back matter.