Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖 Carolopedia › ArtifactGuide page
📖What it means
Any named thing the estate is made of that has a place and an owner — an app, a droid, a database, a design, a prompt, a policy. The catalog of artifacts is the Source of Truth's whole job.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Data element
An artifact is a whole named thing; a data element is one field inside one of them.
Not: Term
An artifact is a thing that exists; a term is a word for a kind of thing.
🗣️Also called
assetestate object