Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖What it means
NOT A TERM IN CAROLVERSE — it is three different things depending on who says it, which is why it must not be used. The data dictionary carries 'scheduled job' and 'background job' only as synonyms of PROCESS; the build pipeline's audit surface calls its CHILD EXECUTIONS jobs; and in casual use it usually means a TASK, the planning record that carries a budget. Say which one you mean: TASK for the thing that holds money, PROCESS for a droid seen from the scheduling side, STEP EXECUTION for one unit inside an initiative's plan.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Task
What a job usually means when money is being discussed: the planning record that carries a budget and is funded by its track.
Not: Process
What the dictionary maps 'scheduled job' and 'background job' to: work that repeats on a clock, an event, or never stops.
Not: Step execution
What the build pipeline's audit surface calls a job: one child execution inside an initiative's plan.
🧭The nuance
Ninad asked on 2026-08-04 whether '23 jobs' meant tasks or processes. It meant tasks. The question is the evidence that the word cannot carry a number: a count of jobs is unreadable until you know which of the three it counted.