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Glossary

Term Meaning
AI governance Rules, checks, review processes, and release practices that keep AI-assisted work accountable
Catalog A local index of repositories that otito can search across
Clean code The change an owner can re-read, re-test, and recompute: smallest owner files, one purpose, deterministic lint/format/tests, and no speculative new layer
Code map A JSON-first map of source files, domains, imports, exports, symbols, and routes
Commodity loop The generic agent harness (prompting, retries, tool routing, file editing) now shipping inside model products and SDKs
Context pack A task-aware packet of likely files, related files, validation commands, and patterns
MCP Model Context Protocol, a standard way for agents to call tools
PR review context A diff-aware report with changed files, risk prompts, review targets, and optional GitHub comments
Trust harness Independent context, validation, policy, CODEOWNERS, receipts, and merge evidence that a model cannot award itself
Òtítọ́ merge gate The product's merge-safety check for PR readiness before merge
otito The canonical CLI and MCP server command for this project
.otito/ Local artifact directory for generated reports, indexes, harnesses, and context packets