Glossary

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Assistant

A named instance of a personal intelligence. Own identity, memory, and capabilities. Not a chatbot, copilot, or generic agent.

Client

A device or application used to reach the assistant. Linux desktop is first. Windows, web, and mobile follow.

Guardian

The person who creates, owns, and is responsible for an assistant. Guardianship, not SaaS usage.

Hatch

Creating a new assistant. Not sign up, onboard, or provision. The blank assistant you name is the product.

Home

Where the assistant runs: a local process on a desktop (Linux first), a self-hosted machine, or Docker. Aevum does not offer a managed cloud home in 0.1.

Memory

Persistent structured knowledge across conversations: facts, preferences, plans, decisions, relationships, recalled when they help.

Platform

Managed infrastructure if and when Aevum offers it. Not offered in 0.1. Never use platform to describe the assistant.

Workspace

The assistant's persistent files: IDENTITY.md, SOUL.md, USER.md, NOW.md, skills, data. On Linux this lives on disk in the hatch instance directory.