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## Pre

The integrated institution and continuity system. Use **Pre Foundation** for the legal 501(c)(3) parent and **Pre BI** for its wholly owned program-service subsidiary when distinction is necessary.

## Pre Account

A durable holon and the default custody, authority, billing, export, restore, and succession boundary for a person, family, organization, archive, community, or separately governed initiative. It is not synonymous with a login, legal entity, hostname, database, or provider tenant.

## `*.pre.bi`

Pre's canonical network namespace. A hostname such as `<slug>.pre.bi` is a reversible external binding to a Pre Account or system surface. The hostname supports lookup and projection but grants no identity, ownership, membership, or authority by itself.

## Beneficial Intelligence

Intelligence constrained to serve the interests, rights, relationships, provenance, and authority of the people and communities represented by the records it uses.

## Presertion

The durable relational knowledge layer. Its primitive is a **Sertion**, an immutable addressable relation that may itself participate in other relations.

## HARnest

**Holonic Agent Relay Nest**: durable relational agency, coordination, evidence, approvals, context grants, handoffs, and unfinished work.

## Har

**Holonic Agent Relay**: the candidate Pre-native realtime relational membrane. Currently a contract and architectural boundary, not a claimed fork.

## Stow

The proposed browser and local encounter environment through which human and agentic computer use holonizes the Internet.

## Stowaway

The purpose-use preservation, Reader, and tab-discipline tool that becomes an early Stow client.

## External binding

A reversible mapping between a canonical Pre object and a provider, hostname, domain, email address, repository object, payment object, or other external representation. External deletion does not delete canonical history.

## Account holon

The complete usable expression of one Pre Account: admitted account identity, network binding, membership and authority, governed records, purpose-specific surfaces, account-scoped work, and a complete export.

## Stewardship

A deliberately priced continuing obligation to maintain, review, preserve, operate, or support an account after an implementation phase. Stewardship should be explicit rather than hidden inside indefinite consulting dependence.

## Holopunk

The metaphysical and design stance that rebels against atomization: wholes exist through relations, participate in larger wholes, and should not be flattened or erased by aggregation.

## Mortmain

An internal philosophical term for constituted continuity after biological presence, emphasizing succession and governance rather than indefinite domination by the dead.

## Right to be Remembered

The claim that a person's or community's records and continuity should not disappear through neglect, platform failure, dispossession, or time.

## Right to be Respected

The corresponding duty that preserved records remain subject to dignity, provenance, context, privacy, correction, dissent, succession, and legitimate authority.

## Agentic permanence

Durable participant identity, context, history, relationships, obligations, and succession independent of any one model invocation or provider.

## Epistemic permanence

Durable, attributable knowledge that retains sources, disagreement, correction, and provenance across time.