Glossary

Acore

The independent declarative, contract-oriented language used to author .acore source. Acore includes its own parsing, evaluation, standard-library, diagnostic, and language-server implementation.

AxiomCore

The wider contract platform and ecosystem: Acore, the CLI, build and package libraries, runtime and client integrations, UI/application tooling, tests, mocks, security analysis, and cloud services.

Axiom CLI

The axiom command-line interface for local and connected workflows.

Contract

A typed, versionable description of a software boundary. Depending on its profile it can include operations, data, behavior, selection, policy, domain, UI, package, and release metadata.

.acore

Editable Acore source. It is authoring input, not a locked distribution format.

.axiom

A canonical package artifact. It may be a service, theme, component library, database schema, extension-metadata, or application-policy package.

.axiomapp

A built Acore UI application artifact for one or more targets.

Artifact lock

A committed record of the exact dependency artifacts selected for a build, including integrity and selection metadata required for deterministic use.

Extractor

A language/framework adapter that reads a supported existing service and emits neutral contract input. FastAPI is the primary documented path; Go is alpha.

Runtime

The implementation that consumes a built contract to perform supported client or application behavior. Runtime features and parity vary by target.

Acore UI

The alpha declarative UI profile and lowering/build pipeline within Acore. It is not the same thing as Axiom Studio.

Axiom Cloud Dashboard

The implemented alpha web control plane for current account, project, release, and related cloud workflows.

Axiom Studio

Coming soon A planned visual and collaborative workspace for building software on AxiomCore. It is not installable today.

Acode

Coming soon A planned contract-aware IDE. Existing Acore language-server and editor-extension work is not the Acode product.

Axiom Marketplace

Coming soon A planned catalog and distribution experience for Axiom packages. A supported marketplace workflow is not yet available.

Semantic diff

A comparison that classifies the meaning and compatibility impact of contract or package changes rather than reporting bytes or lines alone.