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Glossary

Term Meaning
Aegis The installed CLI that provides local setup and the Forge customer surface.
Forge The deployment service and its supported customer workflow.
Repository origin The Git remote that supplies the default repository.
Committed source Source reachable from a commit. The default is HEAD.
Derived context Environment, tenant, account, installation, and app identity obtained from authorization and repository context.
Forge App authorization Authorization that begins when deployment requires repository access.
Operator GitHub authority The authority used for ordinary source-control operations.
Proof packet Non-secret source, configuration, local HTTP, and deployment records kept together.

Naming rule

Use Forge for the product and Aegis for the CLI. Do not introduce another command namespace or hidden selector.