Symbols

Reference implementation: web/ts/sym.ts. The glyphs are the UI's; Go knows only the segments (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: ⋈, ⨳, +, =, ∈, ⌬, ✦)
element — the interactive form (how you INTERACT with it) — not all symbols have an element. An element's forms beyond the tray — window, panel, canvas — are its manifestations: teranos/elements VISION.md

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
`⎔`	Attestation	One claim whole — its slots and its attributes together
`⫶`	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)

The attestation element drew + until + went back to being the subject it marks. A canvas saved before that still says +, and is read by what the record holds rather than by the mark alone.

System Symbols

Infrastructure and lifecycle markers:

Symbol	Name	Purpose
`꩜`	Pulse	Async operations. See API
`✿`	PulseOpen	Graceful startup with orphaned job recovery. See pulse/async/worker.go
`❀`	PulseClose	Graceful shutdown with checkpoint preservation. See GRACE
`⊔`	DB	Database/storage layer
`▣`	Prose	Documentation and prose content
`▤`	Doc	Document/file content (PDF, etc.)
`⌗`	Subcanvas	Nested canvas workspace
`≍`	Parity	A signum held to a reference it follows, beside what each says of itself (server/parity)
`⏿`	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