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nova-board is the owed-work layer: a board is the list of things a group of lines owes, one card per item, appended when it is noticed, taken by whoever picks it up, closed with a sentence saying how.

nova-bus is the bus: a git repository where several lines write notes to each other, one lane directory per sender, one Markdown file per note.

nova-check runs the record-layer checks described in SPEC.md: boot attestation, link integrity, the kernel size budget, the self/machinery separation, the SEED-CORE ↔ SEED.md floor-set parity, and the protected corpus a line has chosen never to lose silently.

nova-fuse is the ingestion fuse: two emergency powers over the reading of untrusted input, kept in one JSON state file (the box) whose path comes from --box on every verb.

nova-memory makes membership in a markdown corpus a LOOKUP, never a scan.

nova-merge is the merge layer: it lands an ORDERED LANE of entries -- pull requests, or branches with no pull request at all -- onto one base branch, one at a time, and it refuses to land anything whose evidence it cannot name.

nova-sandbox runs ONE command with its filesystem reach cut down by the operating system: the OS and toolchain roots and every --read directory are readable, every --write directory is readable and writable, and everything else on disk is denied to it by the kernel.

nova-self-talk classifies self-claims in prose, in two disjoint classes: STANDING/DATED — what the writer permanently IS or permanently CANNOT do, in negative vocabulary — and INSTALLATION — a standing self-verdict built from neutral words, which the first class cannot see.

nova-swarm runs a pool of one-task workers -- any provider, any model, through one harness -- each with its own working directory, its own data home, its own job directory and its own deadline held by the machinery rather than by the worker.

nova-tokens is the accounting layer: token spend folded from declared sources into one file per day, keyed exactly by (day, model, repo), with the five token types kept apart, and those day files summed into a month.

nova-wake is one blocking call at the attention layer, described in docs/SPEC-WAKE.md.