AKC Translation Glossary

Terminology mapping for the two languages supported by AKC's README (English primary + Japanese mirror). Use this as the canonical reference when translating or updating either version of README.md.

For concept definitions (what each term means, with ADR pointers), see glossary.md. This file only governs how terms are rendered across languages.

(The es / pt-BR / zh-CN / zh-TW mirrors were retired on 2026-05-15 after traffic data showed statistically zero unique human viewers; LLM crawlers translate from the English source on demand. Glossary entries are preserved as historical reference for the original translation discipline and for any future re-introduction of mirrors.)

Translation policy

• Skill names and AKC-coined terms stay in English. Names like search-first, learn-eval, skill-stocktake, rules-distill, skill-comply, context-sync, signal-first, harness, and the six phase names (Research / Extract / Curate / Promote / Measure / Maintain) remain in their original English form across all languages. Translating them would break searchability and create divergent vocabularies across the ecosystem.
• General-purpose technical terms are localized. Words like cycle, skill, rule, audit, layer, pattern are translated using the natural local equivalent — never transliterated or romanized.
• Phase names appear bilingually in body text when first introduced (e.g., 「Research（研究）」), then English alone afterwards.

Terminology table

English	日本語	简体中文	繁體中文	Português (Brasil)	Español	Keep original
cycle	サイクル	周期	週期	ciclo	ciclo
phase	フェーズ	阶段	階段	fase	fase
Research	Research	Research	Research	Research	Research	✓
Extract	Extract	Extract	Extract	Extract	Extract	✓
Curate	Curate	Curate	Curate	Curate	Curate	✓
Promote	Promote	Promote	Promote	Promote	Promote	✓
Measure	Measure	Measure	Measure	Measure	Measure	✓
Maintain	Maintain	Maintain	Maintain	Maintain	Maintain	✓
signal-first	signal-first	signal-first	signal-first	signal-first	signal-first	✓
skill	スキル	技能	技能	habilidade	habilidad
rule	ルール	规则	規則	regra	regla
pattern	パターン	模式	模式	padrão	patrón
episode	エピソード	片段	片段	episódio	episodio
layer	層	层	層	camada	capa
distill / distillation	蒸留	蒸馏	蒸餾	destilar / destilação	destilar / destilación
audit	監査	审计	審計	auditar / auditoria	auditar / auditoría
compliance	遵守	遵循	遵循	conformidade	cumplimiento
immutable	不変	不可变	不可變	imutável	inmutable
intake	取り込み	吸收	吸收	ingestão	ingesta
drift	ドリフト	漂移	漂移	desvio	desviación
scaffold / scaffolding	足場	脚手架	腳手架	andaime	andamio
dissolution	溶解	溶解	溶解	dissolução	disolución
harness	ハーネス	harness	harness	harness	harness	✓
knowledge body	知識体	知识体	知識體	corpo de conhecimento	cuerpo de conocimiento
knowledge cycle	知識サイクル	知识周期	知識週期	ciclo de conhecimento	ciclo de conocimiento
reference implementation	リファレンス実装	参考实现	參考實作	implementação de referência	implementación de referencia
three memory layers	3 つのメモリ層	三层内存	三層記憶	três camadas de memória	tres capas de memoria
intent alignment	意図のアライン	意图对齐	意圖對齊	alinhamento de intenção	alineación de intención
bottleneck	ボトルネック	瓶颈	瓶頸	gargalo	cuello de botella
cognitive economy	認知経済	认知经济	認知經濟	economia cognitiva	economía cognitiva
cognitive resource	認知資源	认知资源	認知資源	recurso cognitivo	recurso cognitivo
scarce resource	希少資源	稀缺资源	稀缺資源	recurso escasso	recurso escaso
co-develop	共に育つ / 共進化する	共同发展	共同發展	co-desenvolver	co-desarrollar
attention and judgment	注意と判断	注意力与判断	注意力與判斷	atenção e julgamento	atención y juicio
self-reingestion	自己再取り込み	—	—	—	—
gate complacency	ゲートの形骸化	—	—	—	—
deskilling	スキルの劣化	—	—	—	—
harness alignment	harness alignment	—	—	—	—	✓
harness drift	harness drift	—	—	—	—	✓

Skill names (always English)

• search-first — Research
• learn-eval — Extract
• skill-stocktake — Curate
• rules-distill — Promote
• skill-comply — Measure
• context-sync — Maintain

Notes

• Harness is left in English because it carries a specific meaning in the Mitchell Hashimoto / harness-engineering literature that local translations do not yet stably encode.
• Signal-first stays in English to preserve its connection to the AKC vocabulary and to ADR-0010.
• The phase verbs (Extract, Curate, Promote, Measure, Maintain, Research) are kept English even when the surrounding body text is localized, because they are also the names of the cycle skills and must be searchable across languages.
• Self-reingestion (ADR-0015) names the cycle feeding on its own output — agent-written rules and notes re-entering as distillation input — so the loop can degrade (echo, grounding loss) as well as correct. Rendered descriptively in Japanese; left — in the retired mirrors.
• Gate complacency and deskilling (ADR-0014) name two failure modes of the bidirectional loop — the approval gate degrading to a reflexive click, and the supervisory faculty atrophying under over-delegation. Both are translated descriptively; the retired-mirror columns are left —.

Maintenance

When updating README.md (English source), keep this table in sync if you introduce a new AKC-coined term. The Japanese mirror translator (currently the author) consults this table before choosing a rendering.