Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖What it means
The four platform stores every estate-bound track needs, packaged as one installable unit: the project's own registry, scheduler, run-audit store and backlog. Installed from empty by one command driven only by an instance config. Structure is taken from the estate's own schemas; no estate row is ever copied, and the project's registry is seeded only with its own operator identity.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: instance config
The config says WHICH stores and paths this instance uses; the kernel is those stores actually existing.
🧭The nuance
A kernel is PRESENT only if every one of its four stores passes the same checks the estate's own stores pass — a half-installed kernel reads as absent, with the reason named (CAROL-INI-3870).
🗣️Also called
project kernelplatform primitives