Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖 Carolopedia › Protected coreGuide page
📖What it means
The parts of the build machinery that are root-owned and locked at the operating-system level. The only way in is the core-install lane, with operator approval. A core install is a cost, not a badge: if an unprotected chokepoint will do the job, use it instead.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Core-change request
The core is the locked thing; a core-change request is the queue an agent files when it is refused a write to it.
🗣️Also called
the corelocked coreroot-owned core