Glossary
One vocabulary, everywhere SimPilot speaks.
The shared vocabulary the agent, the product, and your reviewers use. Every term links to where it appears in docs and which solvers it touches.
Workflow & runtime
19 terms- Plan mode
A read-only agent mode that can inspect, explain, and route without launching side effects.
- CaseSpec
The typed source of truth for a simulation case — solver, physics, geometry, mesh, conditions, controls, QoIs, and report inputs.
- Input Package
The frozen, content-addressed snapshot derived from a CaseSpec at run launch time.
- Named selection
A reusable geometry or mesh region handle — patch, face, edge, node, or region — referenced by BCs, recipes, and figures.
- UIMessage part
A typed piece of chat — plan, case artifact, tool call, approval, log, validation record, or report preview.
- Rollout record
The durable typed event stream behind every chat turn — exportable as Harmony or raw Codex JSONL.
- Approval envelope
The typed boundary deciding whether an action runs, needs approval, or must be denied.
- Tool call
A schema-bound runtime action — inspect, mutate, run, retrieve, validate, publish.
- Phase
A typed segment of the agent run — intake_plan, specify, execute, diagnose, validate, report.
- Subagent
A signed, scope-restricted agent spawned by the kernel for a separable concern.
- Autocompact
The pass that summarizes cold rollout segments into typed memory entries to bound the context window.
- Cases Dock
The persistent strip of active cases pinned across the bottom of the shell.
- Workspace file
A real file in the case workspace — config, mesh handoff, script, log, plot, or report artifact.
- Rollout compaction
The maintenance pass that retires cold rollout detail into replay-safe summaries.
- Trust boundary
One of the eight named boundaries (tb-1 to tb-8) across which signed, schema-validated calls flow.
- Data classification
One of four labels — public, org-internal, tenant-restricted, secret — that gates every record's lifecycle.
- Egress proxy
The deny-by-default outbound network gate with frozen per-route rate limits.
- Tenant
The isolation unit owning a workspace's data, secrets, and approvals.
- BYOK
Bring-your-own-keys — tenant-managed encryption keys for regulated workloads.
Solvers & compute
7 terms- Solver pack
A solver integration package — materializes typed case state into solver-native files, commands, parsers, and evidence hooks.
- Resource pack
The manifest-like solver metadata read by tools, docs, help, validation, and reports.
- Capability decision
A typed predicate over the CaseSpec that selects a solver application or template path.
- OpenFOAM function object
An OpenFOAM runtime hook that extracts forces, field values, rates, and diagnostics during a run.
- SU2 marker tag
A named SU2 mesh boundary marker that must match each generated boundary-condition declaration.
- Warm pool
A recycled set of viz leases kept ready for interactive sessions.
- Live-monitor sidecar
The runtime sidecar that tails solver logs and emits typed LiveMonitorFragment records.
Validation & evidence
14 terms- ValidationSpec
The typed credibility contract: QoIs, tolerances, residual targets, benchmark comparisons, and mesh evidence requirements.
- StudySpec
A typed plan for related runs — sweeps, mesh refinement, time-step studies, design comparisons, validation benchmarks.
- QoI
Quantity of interest — a value the case must extract, validate, and report.
- Terminal evidence
Captured command input, output, status, cwd, and timing proving what actually ran.
- Residual convergence
Solver-monitor evidence that a numerical iteration has reached the declared convergence target.
- Mesh-quality gate
A pre-solve check that mesh metrics satisfy the solver's and the case's fidelity assumptions.
- Dimensionless wall distance
y+ — a near-wall resolution metric that gates turbulence-model assumptions.
- Run record
The content-addressed record produced by a completed (or failed) run.
- Recovery decision record
The typed hypothesis ledger written before any rerun after a failure.
- Solution verification record
Numerical verification evidence — did the discretization converge — separate from physical validation.
- Mesh convergence series
Three monotonically refined meshes with matching QoI definitions used to compute GCI or Richardson extrapolation.
- Validation/calibration record
Tracks calibration and validation data sets to enforce their disjointness invariant.
- Sensitivity / UQ record
Captures Monte Carlo, polynomial chaos, or deterministic perturbation evidence with explicit applicability ranges.
- Iteration study record
The typed result of a design-exploration sweep — geometric, parametric, or optimization.
Reporting & sharing
7 terms- Artifact lineage
The provenance chain from typed state and commands through files, figures, QoIs, validation, and reports.
- Report publication record
The publication-pass output for a generated report — links the audience profile, gate, acceptance, and invalidation.
- Case artifact bundle
The replay-safe, content-addressed package containing every artifact needed to reproduce a published report.
- Approval pass
The typed bundle-distribution approval — structural anti-self-approval, reviewer registry, audit trail.
- Audience profile
A typed declaration of who the report is for and what to include or redact.
- Share card
The OG image and metadata generated for a public share link, at request time.
- Declassifier
The typed projection that share, fork, export, and notify routes pass through.
Authoring & memory
6 terms- Standards pack
A typed report-policy bundle that adds mandatory sections, checklists, overlays, and signatures.
- Figure catalog
The typed registry binding figure roles to solver fields, viewpoints, and renderers.
- Knowledge citation
A typed reference to a knowledge-pack chunk used to support a claim.
- Skill
A signed workflow guide the agent loads when it needs solver- or method-specific procedure.
- Memory record
A durable, classification-aware typed claim with applicability bounds, citations, and validation lineage.
- Applicability bounds
The typed scope inside which a memory record, validation result, or recommendation holds.