Vocabulary

Word	Meaning
Octomate	The coordinator: owns every tentacle and the managers they share
Tentacle	A lifecycle component the host owns; a channel, an agent, or a connector
Chromo	A channel's translator: platform payloads in, core schemas out, and back
Ink	A channel's transport: what actually sends, edits, uploads and opens DMs
Feeler	A channel's view: timeline, markdown, segments, approvals, questions, OAuth
Siphon	A channel's way out: draws what the nerve carries to it through its feelers, each thread in order
Awake	The signal that starts a graph run: a message, a resolved batch, or a native hand-off
Kick	The verb: Octomate.kick(signal) runs the graph once
Nerve	Where a kick publishes what it does, as it happens: heard by the channel it happens on and by whoever watches the thread
Impulse	One event on the nerve, with the address it happens at
Reflex	The graph, and the package holding it
Claim	What a route advertises: an ability and the efforts it accepts
Route	An (agent, model) pair a channel can reach, with its claim; also the graph node that picks one
Spell	A gateway tool: inspect, summon, teleport, scheme, send, dismiss
Spill	An oversized tool return held out of the context until the model asks
Segment	One piece of a message: text, markdown, mention, image, file, card, reply
Surface	The place a thread is on: itself, or the chat room it was opened in

"Triage" survives in a module name and some comments as an older name for what is now the reflex graph; there is no triage step.