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    "schemaVersion": "1.0",
    "name": "MiRuntime Glossary",
    "description": "MiRuntime editorial terminology for runtime architecture, governance, memory, tools, recovery, evidence, and performance.",
    "version": "2.8.5",
    "updatedUtc": "2026-06-27T00:00:00Z",
    "canonicalPage": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/",
    "status": "Editorial definitions; not an industry standard",
    "itemCount": 41,
    "items": [
        {
            "id": "active-inference",
            "term": "Active inference",
            "category": "Research",
            "definition": "A computational framework in which action and belief update are derived from a generative model; it is distinct from teleodynamics and should not be treated as a synonym.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#active-inference"
        },
        {
            "id": "agent-runtime",
            "term": "Agent runtime",
            "category": "Architecture",
            "definition": "The execution environment that hosts an agent loop, preserves task state, mediates tools, and handles lifecycle events.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#agent-runtime"
        },
        {
            "id": "ai-ready-web",
            "term": "AI-ready web",
            "category": "Discovery",
            "definition": "A public-site preparation model that keeps pages human-first while exposing reliable discovery, structured content, capability boundaries, provenance, and review evidence for AI systems.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#ai-ready-web"
        },
        {
            "id": "answer-engine-optimization",
            "term": "Answer Engine Optimization",
            "category": "Discovery",
            "definition": "Answer-first publishing that gives a direct, citable, source-backed answer near a stable heading and routes readers back to the canonical public page.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#answer-engine-optimization"
        },
        {
            "id": "approval-gate",
            "term": "Approval gate",
            "category": "Governance",
            "definition": "A runtime state that pauses a consequential action until an authorized human or service approves, rejects, or modifies it.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#approval-gate"
        },
        {
            "id": "autopoiesis",
            "term": "Autopoiesis",
            "category": "Research",
            "definition": "A biological and systems-theory concept describing a network that produces and maintains its organization; software use is an analogy unless explicitly formalized.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#autopoiesis"
        },
        {
            "id": "canonical-url",
            "term": "Canonical URL",
            "category": "SEO",
            "definition": "The preferred stable URL for a page or route, used to consolidate discovery, citations, metadata, and machine-readable catalogs.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#canonical-url"
        },
        {
            "id": "checkpoint",
            "term": "Checkpoint",
            "category": "Recovery",
            "definition": "A durable snapshot of relevant runtime state created before a risky step or at a defined lifecycle boundary.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#checkpoint"
        },
        {
            "id": "compensation",
            "term": "Compensation",
            "category": "Recovery",
            "definition": "A corrective action that semantically reverses or offsets a completed side effect when direct rollback is impossible.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#compensation"
        },
        {
            "id": "control-objective",
            "term": "Control objective",
            "category": "Governance",
            "definition": "A bounded runtime condition such as budget, evidence completeness, or checkpoint freshness that supports an external objective without replacing it.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#control-objective"
        },
        {
            "id": "control-plane",
            "term": "Control plane",
            "category": "Architecture",
            "definition": "The management layer for identity, policy, provisioning, routing, configuration, lifecycle, and observability.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#control-plane"
        },
        {
            "id": "evidence-event",
            "term": "Evidence event",
            "category": "Evidence",
            "definition": "A typed, timestamped record of a request, context decision, tool action, approval, artifact, error, or unresolved uncertainty.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#evidence-event"
        },
        {
            "id": "evidence-ledger",
            "term": "Evidence ledger",
            "category": "Evidence",
            "definition": "An ordered collection of evidence events designed for review, incident analysis, and user-facing accountability.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#evidence-ledger"
        },
        {
            "id": "generative-engine-optimization",
            "term": "Generative Engine Optimization",
            "category": "Discovery",
            "definition": "Source preparation that helps generative systems retrieve, ground, summarize, cite, and route back to public evidence without hidden bot-only claims.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#generative-engine-optimization"
        },
        {
            "id": "goal-hierarchy",
            "term": "Goal hierarchy",
            "category": "Governance",
            "definition": "A typed relationship among an external objective, success criteria, derived subgoals, runtime control objectives, immutable policies, and terminal conditions.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#goal-hierarchy"
        },
        {
            "id": "homeostasis",
            "term": "Homeostasis",
            "category": "Research",
            "definition": "The regulation of variables within viable ranges; in runtime engineering those ranges are explicitly designed operating thresholds.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#homeostasis"
        },
        {
            "id": "human-in-the-loop",
            "term": "Human-in-the-loop",
            "category": "Governance",
            "definition": "A control pattern in which a person reviews or authorizes selected decisions rather than supervising every model token.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#human-in-the-loop"
        },
        {
            "id": "inference-runtime",
            "term": "Inference runtime",
            "category": "Model serving",
            "definition": "Software that loads model weights, schedules compute, manages memory, decodes outputs, and returns model results.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#inference-runtime"
        },
        {
            "id": "json-ld",
            "term": "JSON-LD",
            "category": "Structured data",
            "definition": "A JSON-based linked-data format used to publish structured page facts such as article metadata, breadcrumbs, organizations, and defined terms when those facts match visible content.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#json-ld"
        },
        {
            "id": "local-first",
            "term": "Local-first",
            "category": "Deployment",
            "definition": "An architecture in which the user-visible control plane, policy, and critical data placement remain locally governed even when some compute is remote.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#local-first"
        },
        {
            "id": "machine-intelligence-runtime",
            "term": "Machine Intelligence Runtime",
            "category": "Definition",
            "definition": "An emerging execution-time control layer that coordinates agents, tools, memory, policy, approvals, recovery, telemetry, and evidence around model inference.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#machine-intelligence-runtime"
        },
        {
            "id": "memory-scope",
            "term": "Memory scope",
            "category": "Memory",
            "definition": "A named boundary defining who or what can read, write, retain, correct, export, or delete a class of remembered information.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#memory-scope"
        },
        {
            "id": "model-adapter",
            "term": "Model adapter",
            "category": "Architecture",
            "definition": "A boundary that normalizes provider-specific requests, streaming, budgets, tool schemas, and error behavior.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#model-adapter"
        },
        {
            "id": "no-op",
            "term": "No-op",
            "category": "Recovery",
            "definition": "An explicit decision to make no structural or operational change because evidence, benefit, authority, or resources do not justify one.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#no-op"
        },
        {
            "id": "policy-decision",
            "term": "Policy decision",
            "category": "Governance",
            "definition": "A typed runtime result—allow, deny, require approval, transform, or escalate—derived from identity, context, action, and risk.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#policy-decision"
        },
        {
            "id": "prompt-injection",
            "term": "Prompt injection",
            "category": "Security",
            "definition": "An attack or failure mode in which instructions in user or retrieved content manipulate model behavior contrary to intended policy.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#prompt-injection"
        },
        {
            "id": "readiness-profile",
            "term": "Readiness profile",
            "category": "Discovery",
            "definition": "A maturity label describing which AI-ready capabilities are supported with evidence, which are only package-ready, and which are not claimed.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#readiness-profile"
        },
        {
            "id": "recovery-rate",
            "term": "Recovery rate",
            "category": "Performance",
            "definition": "The share of failed or degraded runs that return to a valid state and complete under defined constraints.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#recovery-rate"
        },
        {
            "id": "reflective-critic",
            "term": "Reflective critic",
            "category": "Research",
            "definition": "A bounded evaluator that diagnoses runtime evidence and proposes recovery or verification without authorizing its own high-risk actions.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#reflective-critic"
        },
        {
            "id": "resource-gating",
            "term": "Resource gating",
            "category": "Architecture",
            "definition": "A control that permits an action or structural edit only when expected benefit, cost, budget, policy, and maintenance requirements are satisfied.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#resource-gating"
        },
        {
            "id": "route-inventory",
            "term": "Route inventory",
            "category": "Discovery",
            "definition": "A machine-readable list of canonical public routes with titles, status, reviewed dates, purposes, related pages, and deployment notes.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#route-inventory"
        },
        {
            "id": "runtime-intelligence",
            "term": "Runtime intelligence",
            "category": "Research",
            "definition": "The allocation and control of inference-time computation, search, verification, refinement, memory, and interventions while a task executes.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#runtime-intelligence"
        },
        {
            "id": "runtime-plane",
            "term": "Runtime plane",
            "category": "Architecture",
            "definition": "The isolated execution environment for an active agent session, including workspace, tools, model adapters, memory, and artifacts.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#runtime-plane"
        },
        {
            "id": "side-effect",
            "term": "Side effect",
            "category": "Tools",
            "definition": "A change outside the model response, such as writing a file, sending a message, changing an account, or deploying software.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#side-effect"
        },
        {
            "id": "structural-adaptation",
            "term": "Structural adaptation",
            "category": "Research",
            "definition": "A change to components, routes, rules, plans, or topology rather than a parameter update inside a fixed structure.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#structural-adaptation"
        },
        {
            "id": "structured-data",
            "term": "Structured data",
            "category": "SEO",
            "definition": "Machine-readable metadata that clarifies public page entities, relationships, dates, and breadcrumbs while remaining consistent with visible page content.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#structured-data"
        },
        {
            "id": "teleodynamic-runtime-profile",
            "term": "Teleodynamic runtime profile",
            "category": "Research",
            "definition": "An optional research-only extension for bounded goals, viability metrics, reflection policy, structural-edit proposals, and immutable constraints.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#teleodynamic-runtime-profile"
        },
        {
            "id": "teleodynamics",
            "term": "Teleodynamics",
            "category": "Research",
            "definition": "A theory of end-directed organization arising from mutually constraining processes; its runtime use remains an editorial research translation unless formally implemented.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#teleodynamics"
        },
        {
            "id": "tool-contract",
            "term": "Tool contract",
            "category": "Tools",
            "definition": "A typed definition of tool inputs, outputs, permissions, side effects, idempotency, failure modes, and evidence requirements.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#tool-contract"
        },
        {
            "id": "trust-boundary",
            "term": "Trust boundary",
            "category": "Security",
            "definition": "A point where data, authority, identity, or execution crosses between components with different assumptions or privileges.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#trust-boundary"
        },
        {
            "id": "viability-metric",
            "term": "Viability metric",
            "category": "Operations",
            "definition": "A measured operating-condition value such as budget remaining, context pressure, tool reliability, evidence completeness, or checkpoint freshness.",
            "url": "https://miruntime.com/glossary/#viability-metric"
        }
    ]
}