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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-cairn checkpoints a session without imposing a memory lifecycle.

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, the protected corpus a line has chosen never to lose silently, and the dogfood ledger -- whether anybody but a verb's own author has run it.

nova-ci runs the checks this repository's CI path makes on its own output.

nova-decide makes one typed decision per call through TypeSafe Jev.

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-play: shared reading annotations.

nova-post drafts, shows and sends outward posts behind Glenn's approval.

nova-pulse enumerates bounded open work, cuts cards from templates, admits them through nova-swarm batch, and folds what comes back.

nova-review packet builds a bounded, exact-revision source-review artifact.

What the wall denied, said out loud.

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.

bench is the verb that proves one bench before a batch is pointed at it: `nova-swarm bench probe --benches <file> --bench <name>` (docs/SPEC-SWARM.md "Benches").

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.

nova-work is both the thin client of the resident work session (docs/SPEC-WORK.md, "The engine and its client") and the kernel's side of the work description language (docs/SPEC-WORKLANG.md) and the job graph of docs/SPEC-JOBS.md.