Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖What it means
A program that starts once and keeps running, waiting for work, until it is deliberately stopped. In Carolverse a daemon is a shape of execution, not a kind of actor: it is how a continuous process stays alive between pieces of work. Daemons are the reason a wedged loop can consume a machine quietly, which is why every one of them must be registered and watched.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Droid
A droid is WHOSE job it is; a daemon is HOW it stays running. A registered droid may be a daemon, a cron job or a trigger — the droid is the accountable unit either way.
Not: System service
A system service is a daemon the operating system supervises and restarts; a bare daemon has nobody watching it.
Not: Scheduled process
A scheduled process wakes, works and exits; a daemon never exits.
🗣️Also called
background processlong-running processresident process