📖 GSM Glossary

• 🔰 GLOSSARY — Canonical definitions for all GSM terms

🧭 Core Structural Concepts#

• 📐 Structural Vector — Five‑axis representation of governance structure
• 🛡️ Invariant — A structural rule that must remain coherent
• ⚡ Tension — Strain created when invariants misalign
• ⛔ Violation — Breakdown of an invariant

🌐 Substrate & Basins#

• 🧱 Substrate — Foundational structural layer of governance
• 🌀 Basin — Stable region of structural identity
• 🚧 Basin Boundary — Threshold where transitions become likely

🎛️ Dynamics & Movement#

• 🌬️ Drift — Directional structural movement across axes
• 📊 Drift Category — micro, meso, macro, regime_shift
• ⚙️ Physics Forces — Cross‑axis forces shaping movement

🔀 Modes & Phases#

• 🔧 Regime Mode — Operational behavior state
• 📈 Phase State — Structural sequence position
• 💸 Structural Debt — Cost of skipping or violating phases

🔭 Observer & Interpretation#

• 🔭 Observer — History / Now / Future interpretive lenses
• 🗣️ Narrative — Human‑readable structural explanation
• 🔮 Projection — Plausible future structural state

🚀 Simulation & Transitions#

• 🔀 Transition — Movement between modes or basins
• 🧩 Transition Graph — Rules governing allowed transitions
• 📄 Simulation Step — Single evaluation cycle