UAI Lab Naming Glossary and Disambiguation
Canonical names for overloaded lab terms (Director, Conductor, Explorer, Beacon) and how to qualify them in docs and routes.
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UAI Lab Naming Glossary and Disambiguation
Canonical names for overloaded lab terms (Director, Conductor, Explorer, Beacon) and how to qualify them in docs and routes.
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UAI Lab Naming Glossary
Overloaded names are qualified here so docs and operators do not talk past each other.
Director
- Director (Proxmox host) —
pve250at10.0.0.250; runs CT121/123/124/125/126/128. - Director (Python app) — legacy NUC service on port 8765; not on Beacon VPS.
- Director (Cadence label) — Rust Cadence v6 stack on Beacon (
cadence-*units); not the Proxmox host. - Director (stale mirror) —
/root/cadence-v6-mirrorSQLite/jobs artifact; not authoritative.
Conductor
- Cadence Conductor —
cadence-conductor.serviceon127.0.0.1:8787; operator orchestration lane for Cadence v6. - UAPI Conductor — separate product concept in UAPI wedge docs; not the same binary as Cadence Conductor.
Explorer
- UAPI Explorer (CT121) — Python catalog at
10.0.0.121:8080; canonical governed docs. - UAI Explorer (Beacon mesh) — Rust catalog at
100.119.16.109:18080. - Beacon route
explorer— proxies publicexplorer.united-ai.cato VPS-local uapi-explorer on:8081.
Beacon
- Beacon v1 (production edge) —
beacon.serviceon VPS; Postgres-backed routes in DBbeacon.sites. - Beacon-next (CT123) — sandbox modernization lane; do not confuse with production VPS Beacon.
Foundry
- Foundry (UAPI) — implementation/gateway concept in UAPI program docs; no standalone
foundry.serviceon Beacon.
Qualification rule
Always prefix with product or host: e.g. "Cadence Conductor", "Proxmox Director", "UAPI Explorer CT121".