Glossary

Common Prescium terms used across docs, runtime, and receipts.

Terms

• Fog: Unknown input/cost area blocking complete certainty.
• Signal: Deterministic pattern indicating leak, risk, fog, or all clear.
• Briefing: Daily operating summary with KPI, risk, and action context.
• Receipt: Evidence-backed citation record for a claim.
• Trust Lens: UI mode emphasizing confidence and provenance.
• Policy Chain: Ordered governance checks before execution.
• Proof Packet: Exported decision + evidence + policy integrity bundle.
• Guided Action: Action execution lane with simulation and approvals.
• Replay: As-known-at reconstruction of prior decision context.
• Counterfactual: "What-if" scenario under controlled assumptions.
• Access Tier: Public/starter/pro/scale/internal boundary level.
• Session Class: Anonymous or authenticated request class.
• Source Plane: Docs, demo, or tenant data origin plane.
• Seal Chain: Linked hash sequence over evidence items.
• Citation Receipt: HMAC-backed claim-to-evidence binding payload.
• Context Pack: Retrieval-selected evidence subset for compose.
• Taint: Injection/exfiltration risk marker triggering fail-closed blocks.
• Handoff Required: Outcome requiring app runtime for tenant data.
• Semantic Profile: Domain-level ontology behavior contract.
• Ontology Fallback: Relationship-hop retrieval when lexical hits are weak.
• Compose Gate: Promotion gate controlling provider compose activation.
• Runtime Trace: Step-by-step state transitions for a chatbot turn.
• Deterministic Mode: Non-provider response path using trusted evidence only.
• Rate Scope Key: Deterministic rate-limit partition key.
• Verification: Final integrity and access-parity check before publish.