Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖About & Usage
About
Data Dictionary is Carol’s shared vocabulary guide: the place to check what a word means across the Carolverse. It exists so people and AI agents use important terms consistently—and do not accidentally treat near-misses such as droid and daemon, service and system service, or review and audit as interchangeable. Each entry can include a plain-English definition, accepted synonyms, and closely related terms that mean something different.
A term is defined once in the registry’s glossary_terms table—the central list where glossary entries are stored—and then displayed on the Concepts cards in Source of Truth, the Source of Truth. This makes Data Dictionary the reference for words; explanations of what a number or metric on an app screen means belong in the App Handbook. The app is an internal, sign-in-required governance tool owned by Clara, Clara.
Usage Patterns
Data Dictionary is used whenever someone writes, reviews, designs, or interprets Carolverse material and needs to confirm the intended language. It may be consulted while drafting requirements, documenting an app, checking a process, or resolving a disagreement caused by two similar-sounding terms. Other apps can also reuse its centrally maintained definitions instead of creating separate explanations.
For example, suppose a Concepts card in Source of Truth calls something a system service, while a reader assumes that simply means any service. They can open Data Dictionary, compare the definitions and near-miss notes, and see the intended distinction. If the approved wording later changes, the glossary entry is updated at its single source, allowing the Concepts card to reflect the same meaning rather than drifting into a second version.
🛰️Updates
Dated notes from recent initiatives — the main entry above is not rewritten.
2026-08-01: Ninad launched Data Dictionary, a Carolverse-wide glossary that defines every term once, adds synonyms, and disambiguates near-miss words such as daemon, droid, system service, app, agent, process and service.
The data dictionary now registers 'main page' and 'guide page' as the two Carolopedia page classes, with page class defined as derived from page type.
A new definition for the 'last-7-days activity count' metric has been added.
2025-04-01: Data Dictionary is now a grounding source for Clara's chat, making its metadata queryable. Data Dictionary
2025-04-01: Regenerated the blog hero image using the newly funded Gemini key after the rotation of Image Generator.
The Data Dictionary surfaced five operator surfaces in a 'No-service' bucket, prompting the formalization of the Constitution service under Orion's governance.
A data dictionary now defines every displayed number, providing clarity on tracker counts for Data Dictionary.
March 28, 2025: The Data Dictionary app has been created under the Governance service to serve as the dedicated home for defining data attributes and displayed metrics.
The per-service activity lookup is now cached to avoid a relay round-trip on every page load, reducing refresh time, and the retired VM Metrics directory has been removed from the tree. Data Dictionary
🗂️Tabs & Screens
Tab inventory is being built — see CAROL-INI-077 step 7.
👤Owner
Clara · CEO📚Recent initiatives
Initiatives that touched this app — a short summary each; open one for the full story.