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Abstention Threshold (τ*): the gating value applied to the compression tension score. if τ at a site or along a path exceeds τ*, the system abstains or requests clarification. see foundations and implementations.
Auditability: the share of steps that can be reproduced with stored artifacts. high auditability means a third party can retrace sources, parameters, and gates. see principles.

Compression Site: a step where data, context, or meaning is reduced. examples: retrieval prune, rank, summarize, generate, redact, review. each site is identified, scored, and auditable. see foundations.
Compression Tension Score (CTS, τ): a normalized per site score that combines information loss, task degradation, provenance gaps, and uncertainty. used to gate claims and to compute path scores. equation on foundations.
Compression Map: a visual or textual trace of compression sites for a flow. includes τ per site, τ* thresholds, and provenance. used in reviews and audits. see applications.
Contradiction Score (CS): a measure of net conflict between claims or sources, derived from entailment vs contradiction probabilities. positive means contradiction, negative means entailment. see benchmarks.
Contradish: a benchmark that evaluates detection of contradictions, τ distribution, and calibrated abstention. site: contradish.com.

Entailment: a claim is entailed when it follows from available evidence. in CAI, claims without entailment are blocked or routed to abstention. see faq.

Hallucinet: a CAI tool that flags outputs tied to risky compression paths and triggers abstention when τ exceeds thresholds. see applications.

Mirror Flags: diagnostic markers that indicate disowned traits, false integration, or narrative breaks in inputs or outputs. used to surface where compression bent meaning. see applications.
MirrorNet: a CAI interface that shows compression choices to users and models, making tradeoffs visible and steerable. see applications.

Path Score: an aggregation of τ across sites for a single request path. used to compare designs, set budgets, and trigger abstention. definition on foundations.
Provenance: the record of sources, transformations, and parameters that produced an output. a claim without provenance cannot be verified. see principles.
Provenance Entropy: a measure of concentration or dispersion of evidence sources. used to calibrate confidence and review effort. equation on foundations.

Triarch: orienting structure: compression, decompression, and awareness in tension. used as a compass for design choices. see about.

Unsupported Claim: an output not entailed by available evidence or not covered by provenance. CAI systems abstain instead of asserting. see faq.

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