lexicon· chapter 03 · vocabulary lock
canonical verbs · locked nouns · zero drift
the brand universe ships with a vocabulary lock. seven product verbs, eight product nouns, five label terms. anything else is either banned or new — and new words enter the lock through review, not by accident.
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search the canonical vocabulary · pick any term · the rewrite tester runs in-browser and grades a sample sentence built from it. banned terms grade F by construction.
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01 · verbsseven · canonicalevery product action · one of seven verbs
every cta in the product, every menu item, every flow uses one of these. nothing else.
| verb | definition |
|---|---|
watch | observe a live agent or floor surface · no input action |
inspect | open a signed receipt or proof object · read-only |
deploy | commit a paper agent to live posture · signing ceremony |
refuse | reject a candidate signal at the gate · always signed |
replay | walk through a signed decision in chronological order |
sign | attach a hashed receipt to an agent / drop / decision |
archive | preserve a previous floor under /v<n> · monotonic |
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02 · nounseight · structuralevery product object · one of eight nouns
if you need to introduce a new noun, you’re either describing one of these in different words or proposing an extension to the lock.
| noun | definition |
|---|---|
floor | the public live surface where the engine watches markets |
cockpit | operator-side dashboard for in-flight management |
journal | append-only feed of every signed decision |
receipt | a signed proof object · trade · drop · refusal |
gate | a release-blocking check · risk · liquidity · diversity |
lens | a domain-specific evaluator · 6 lenses, all read-only |
oracle | the LLM-driven layer · advisory · never the gate of last resort |
covenant | a release-blocking design or language rule |
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03 · labelkaikai kiki vocabularyagents are artists · signing is ceremony
| term | definition |
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artist | an agent on the ZERO label · signed via release artifact |
signing | the operator-side ceremony that promotes an agent from paper to live |
release | the canonical artifact (signed JSON · hash-pinned) that defines an agent |
royalty | the on-chain address that receives the agent's PnL share |
label | the curated roster of signed agents · ZERO is the label, not the platform |
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04 · bannednever in copywords that fail the rewrite tester
guaranteedrisk-freebeat the marketunstoppablealphaedgecrushdominatenever loseAI-powerednext-genrevolutionary
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banned words trigger a fail in the rewrite tester. some are regulated (alpha, edge, beat-the-market). some are hype (next-gen, revolutionary, unstoppable). some are vacuous (AI-powered).