Symbols

Reference implementation: sym/symbols.go

SEG (Segment)

An atomic unit of the attestation grammar. The segments (i, am, ix, ax, by, at, so, se, as, is, of) each have three layers:

seg — the grammatical unit (what it IS)
sym — the visual expression (how it LOOKS: ⋈, ⨳, +, =, ∈, ⌬, ✦)
glyph — the interactive manifestation (how you INTERACT with it) — not all symbols have a glyph

Primary Segments

These symbols have UI components and keyboard shortcuts (user-configurable):

Symbol	Command	Meaning	Usage
`⍟`	i	Self	Your vantage point into QNTX - the current user/session
`≡`	am	Configuration	System settings and state
`⨳`	ix	Ingest	Import external data
`⋈`	ax	Expand	Query and surface related context
`⌬`	by	Actor	All forms: creator, source, authenticated user
`✦`	at	Temporal	Time marker/moment
`⟶`	so	Therefore	Consequent action/trigger
`⊨`	se	Semantic	Meaning-based search and entailment

Attestation Building Blocks

Fundamental components of attestations (not UI elements):

Symbol	Concept	Role in Attestation
`+`	as	Assert - emit an attestation
`=`	is
`∈`	of	Membership in "predicate OF context"

Note: Consider alternative typeable symbol for ∈ (of) for better keyboard accessibility

Derived Attestation Types

Symbol	Name	Purpose
`⫶`	Triplet	Grouped attestations sharing the same subject+predicate+context
`⊢`	Type	An actor's judgment that a pattern deserves a name
`Σ`	Sigma	Distilled/summarized attestation (sum of many observations)

System Symbols

Infrastructure and lifecycle markers:

Symbol	Name	Purpose
`꩜`	Pulse	Async operations, always prefix Pulse-related logs. See API
`✿`	PulseOpen	Graceful startup with orphaned job recovery. See Opening & Closing
`❀`	PulseClose	Graceful shutdown with checkpoint preservation. See Opening & Closing
`⊔`	DB	Database/storage layer
`▣`	Prose	Documentation and prose content
`▤`	Doc	Document/file content (PDF, etc.)
`⌗`	Subcanvas	Nested canvas workspace
`⏿`	Watcher	Observer — rendered inline next to watched predicates in the UI. Color follows spice saturation: bright blue under low dilation, deep sea blue when relaxed, faded white when never fired

Manifestation

The visual form a glyph takes when it morphs beyond the GlyphRun. A glyph can manifest as a window, canvas, fullscreen overlay, modal, tooltip, or any other interactive surface. The same DOM element, the same identity — different manifestations. See glyphs.md for the full vision.