Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖What it means
A single-concern worker owned by exactly one agent. A droid does one job — scan, sweep, review, dispatch, author — and every droid is registered, so it can be monitored, budgeted and retired. Droids are where the work actually happens; when something runs in Carolverse, a droid ran it.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Daemon
A droid is a registered UNIT OF WORK with an owner; a daemon is a running program that never exits. A droid may be run by a daemon, by a schedule, or by a trigger — the two words answer different questions: 'whose job is this' versus 'how is it running'.
Not: Agent
A droid does the work; the agent that owns it answers for the work.
Not: Process
A process is a droid seen from the scheduling side — a droid that runs on a clock, a trigger or continuously.
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