Use consistent terms across chat, embeddings, manifests, training, and release operations.

  • Canonical record: provider/model-neutral semantic data with provenance.
  • Codec: external-format conversion with an explicit loss report.
  • Template: late-bound tokenizer-specific chat rendering.
  • Prompt convention: late-bound embedding query/document instruction or prefix.
  • Response distillation: transfer of generated assistant responses.
  • Vector distillation: transfer of embedding geometry.
  • Score/ranking distillation: transfer of relevance values or ordering.
  • Frozen dataset: immutable records, splits, contamination evidence, rights, and hashes.
  • Full resume: restoration of training state, not merely weights.
  • Warm start: weights-only initialization.
  • Recipe lock: exact model, revision, license evidence, conventions, capabilities, and gates.
  • Supported: every declared gate passed for the stated scope.
  • Experimental: usable for bounded evaluation without production stability.
  • Unavailable: capability fails closed because required evidence is absent or failed.