Essential terms and concepts used throughout the Batuta framework.
| Term | Definition |
| Batuta | Orchestration framework for the Sovereign AI Stack. From Spanish “baton” - the conductor’s wand. |
| Sovereign AI Stack | 20-component pure Rust ML infrastructure for privacy-preserving AI. |
| Toyota Way | Lean manufacturing principles (Jidoka, Kaizen, Muda, etc.) applied to software. |
| Principle | Japanese | Meaning |
| Jidoka | 自働化 | Built-in quality: stop-the-line on defects |
| Kaizen | 改善 | Continuous improvement |
| Muda | 無駄 | Waste elimination |
| Heijunka | 平準化 | Level scheduling |
| Kanban | 看板 | Visual workflow management |
| Andon | 行灯 | Problem visualization (red/yellow/green) |
| Mieruka | 見える化 | Visual control dashboards |
| Genchi Genbutsu | 現地現物 | Go and see for yourself |
| Component | Layer | Description |
| Trueno | Compute | SIMD/GPU tensor primitives |
| Aprender | ML | First-principles ML algorithms |
| Realizar | Inference | LLM inference runtime |
| Depyler | Transpiler | Python to Rust conversion |
| Batuta | Orchestration | Workflow coordination |
| Certeza | Quality | Validation framework |
| PMAT | Quality | Code quality metrics |
| Term | Definition |
| Demo Score | PMAT quality metric (0-100 scale) |
| TDG | Technical Debt Grade |
| Quality Gate | A- (85) minimum for production |
| Coverage | Test code coverage percentage |
| Mutation Score | Mutation testing kill rate |
| Term | Definition |
| AST | Abstract Syntax Tree |
| HIR | High-level Intermediate Representation |
| MIR | Mid-level Intermediate Representation |
| FFI | Foreign Function Interface |
| Zero-copy | Memory operations without data copying |
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