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Glossary

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  • Hypercontext: the whole body of a person's captured, curated context, held where they host it. Canonical: Hypercontext Protocol.
  • Hypercontext Protocol (HCP): the social contract governing what happens when any piece of a person's context leaves home. Canonical: The Protocol.
  • Context castle: the deliberate architecture a person builds to hold their hypercontext: designed rooms, one gate. Canonical: Hypercontext Protocol.
  • The keep: the inner-life room of the castle; context that never leaves under any incentive. Canonical: Inner Life.
  • Sliver: the minimal, job-scoped piece of context a curator passes to a service; the only thing that ever crosses the gate. Canonical: The Protocol.
  • Curator: the agent, working only for you, that decides which pieces of the castle a job genuinely needs. Canonical: The Protocol.
  • Connect your context: the front-door pattern that replaces "sign in with Google": a service starts excellent because it starts with your scoped context. Canonical: The Protocol.
  • Don't overshare: the user-side discipline of the core bargain: share for relevance, never beyond excellence of service. Canonical: Hypercontext Protocol.
  • Purpose-bound use: the service-side discipline: context shared for a job is used only for that job. Canonical: The Protocol.
  • Expiring grant: a context connection as a lease with a default end, never a transfer. Canonical: The Protocol.
  • Deletion on disconnect: the guarantee that leaving a service genuinely erases what it held. Canonical: The Protocol.
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol): the standard bridge between an agent and a service; the transport layer HCP composes with. Canonical: Hypercontext vs. MCP.