cell — historical terminology
The cell ladder grouped four holders of state under one name. The accepted domain model gives each responsibility a precise owner:
| Historical term | Current role | Preserved responsibility |
|---|---|---|
| runtime-cell | neuron executing progs | Program state, continuations, work history, resource limits and recovery |
| building-cell | service and its progs | Shared service state, player governance, admission and delivery |
| ledger-cell | token book and issuer | Complete home ledger, issuance rules, conditional settlement and conservation |
| knowledge-cell | shard | Graph partition, availability, validation, boundary proofs and split/merge lifecycle |
Neuron is the protocol subject. The named robot attaches neurons; programs, services, books and shards have data and routing identities under their own contracts. A separate neuron is introduced when independent authority or attribution is needed. State, an address and a lifecycle alone provide no such authority.
The old client mode cell is now the partial node mode described in
node modes. Cyb's former extension organ is
prog. Cybergraph retains history, BBG persists it and
log renders it. Tape provides framing.
This page preserves historical links and terminology. Original signed records, legacy codec names and migration provenance retain their bytes. Biological cells, virtual-machine pairs, storage cells and table cells retain their ordinary meanings. spectral cell division retains its historical proposal title and describes graph shard division.
See hierarchy for graph aggregation and 3c for domain read/write/trade contracts. The shared transport carries each role's explicit evidence and authority requirements.
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