606 terms across 132 domains — an exhaustive vocabulary engine for agents and humans doing precision ideation.
Each term compresses paragraphs of explanation into a single word. With the right vocabulary, one word replaces a thousand words of description. These are micro-programs that, strung together, make complex ideas into verbs for packing actions.
HAV is a structured, searchable vocabulary where every term includes:
- Short definition (one line, verb-like where applicable)
- Full description with fleet integration and real-world examples
- Cross-domain bridges connecting concepts across 132 fields
- Abstraction levels from Concrete(0) to Meta(4)
- Antonyms where applicable
- Tags for filtering and discovery
HAV terms are like heat pump components. Knowing what a compressor, condenser, evaporator, and pressure relief valve ARE — and where they live — lets you walk into ANY refrigeration system and start diagnosing. Not because you have special knowledge of THAT system, but because the vocabulary IS the system's logic.
Building from scratch requires special knowledge (the architect's blueprint). Fixing and improving just requires vocabulary mastery (knowing the parts, their locations, and their failure modes).
Each term is a pressure relief valve: a named thing with known function, known location in architecture, known failure modes. String enough together and you don't need instructions. The vocabulary IS the manual.
High-abstraction vocabulary IS the drone above the corn maze — one word replaces a paragraph of ground-level explanation.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Terms | 606 |
| Domains | 132 |
| File size | 573K chars |
| Action verbs | 60+ |
| Cross-domain bridges | 800+ |
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python3 src/cli.py search "how systems fail"
python3 src/cli.py explain anti-fragility
python3 src/cli.py suggest "handle overload"
python3 src/cli.py bridge confidence from uncertainty to biological
python3 src/cli.py explore
python3 src/cli.py stats- Dopamine IS confidence — neurotransmitter <-> uncertainty
- Serotonin IS trust — neurotransmitter <-> uncertainty
- Stigmergy IS git — coordination <-> architecture
- Homeostasis IS setpoint — biology <-> control-theory
- Free energy IS active inference — thermodynamics <-> perception
- Anti-fragility IS learning from failure — failure-modes <-> learning
- Half-life decay IS the universal aging function — temporal <-> 30+ crates
HAV includes 60+ high-compression operational verbs that each encode complete multi-step patterns: vet, triage, shard, stitch, bench, mock, hardwire, throttle, bridge, harden, stress-test, garden, orchestrate, ferment, calibrate, route, thaw, snapshot, broadcast, tunnel, pollinate, graft, reconcile, fortify, scaffold, recon, siege, reconstitute, ping, scuttle, ratify, embargo, provision, ring-fence, cross-pollinate — and more.
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