Domain Language

This page fixes the durable vocabulary used across the receiver handbook.

Runtime Composition

The act of turning configuration, ports, and stage engines into one executing receiver run.

Stage Handoff

The typed transition between acquisition, tracking, observations, and optional navigation, including reports and runtime-side evidence.

Port Seam

An execution-oriented trait or adapter for time, samples, or artifacts that lets the runtime interact with the outside world without hard-coding a repository or command policy.

Receiver Artifact

The in-memory product of a receiver run before repository persistence or indexing occurs.

Runtime-Side Validation

Reference alignment, comparison, covariance realism, or validation reporting that evaluates receiver outputs while staying at the runtime boundary rather than the repository boundary.

Synthetic Receiver Execution

Simulation helpers that exercise the receiver surface directly to prove runtime behavior, stage sensitivity, or validation logic.