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@@ -771,19 +771,52 @@ defends all of them**, and it is the magnitude/support gate of stage 2.
 
 That is why this is worth building once, properly, as a shared kernel.
 
-### A.8.4 A name, offered (the operator names things; I only propose)
+### A.8.4 THE NAME (operator-approved 2026-07-13): **DAAT**
+
+## DAAT — **D**irection-**A**nchored **A**mbiguity **T**riage
 
 The house speaks Kabbalah: MALKHUT is *kingdom* — the lowest sefirah, the
 **ground**, where everything finally touches the world. Fitting, for execution.
 
-The manifold-query engine is not a *thing that acts*; it is the faculty by which
-the system **knows where it is**. In the tree that is **Da'at** — *knowledge* — the
-hidden sefirah that is not counted among the ten, the one that emerges from the
-others and unifies intellect with action. It is precisely the *knowing* that stands
-between understanding and doing.
+The manifold kernel is not a thing that *acts*; it is the faculty by which the
+system **knows where it is**. In the tree that is **Da'at** — *knowledge* — the
+hidden sefirah, not counted among the ten, that emerges from the others and unites
+intellect with action: precisely the *knowing* that stands between understanding
+and doing. It sits directly above MALKHUT and feeds it. That is our architecture,
+drawn a thousand years early.
 
-**DA'AT** — the manifold kernel. It knows where we are, and — more valuable — it
-knows when it does not.
+**The apostrophe is dropped** (ASCII identifier law: `import daat`, `DaatQuery`,
+`daat.query()`, `dolphin_daat.*`, no Unicode in any symbol, path, or table name).
+The etymology survives in the letters; the acronym earns them:
+
+| Letter | Stage | What it names |
+|---|---|---|
+| **D**irection | 1 — RETRIEVE | cosine on the unit vector. The reflex. The matmul. |
+| **A**nchored | 2 — GATE | anchored to the explored **magnitude** envelope + support count — the guard cosine structurally cannot provide (§A.3.1) |
+| **A**mbiguity | — | the honest middle state; the thing we refuse to collapse into a guess |
+| **T**riage | verdict | `KNOWN` / `MARGINAL` / `OUT_OF_DISTRIBUTION` |
+
+**"Triage" is not decoration — it is the house's own word for this exact
+operation**, and using it twice is the point:
+
+| Subsystem | Triage |
+|---|---|
+| **Venue** (`bdc54fb`) | `NOT_ATTEMPTED` / `REFUSED` / `INDETERMINATE` |
+| **DAAT** (this annex) | `KNOWN` / `MARGINAL` / `OUT_OF_DISTRIBUTION` |
+
+Same verb. Same law. Now the names say so.
+
+> **DAAT** — it knows where we are, and, more valuable, it knows when it does not.
+
+**Canonical spellings (binding):** package `daat/`; class `DaatQuery`; verdict enum
+`DaatVerdict.{KNOWN, MARGINAL, OUT_OF_DISTRIBUTION}`; CH namespace `dolphin_daat`;
+docs may write *Da'at* in prose for the etymology, **never in code**.
+
+*(Alternative considered and set aside: **YESOD** — foundation — the sefirah that
+funnels everything from above into Malkhut. Architecturally exact (the kernel feeds
+the executor) and ASCII-clean, but it names the **conduit**, not the **knowing**.
+DAAT names the faculty; the faculty is the thing we are building. Recorded here so
+the choice is not re-litigated.)*
 
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@@ -800,7 +833,7 @@ knows when it does not.
 | A7 | **Risk gate honours OOD** → doctrinal fallback policy | Test: novel regime ⇒ no confident recommendation, ever |
 | A8 | Component detection (cheap clustering); refuse cross-component interpolation | |
 | A9 | **IFF EARNED**: persistent homology / mapper, offline, Mode 1, as a *gate-shaping diagnostic* | Only after A6's variance shows structured failure |
-| A10 | Generalize to a shared kernel (DA'AT); second consumer = MARAS fingerprint | One engine, two manifolds, before claiming generality |
+| A10 | Generalize to a shared kernel (DAAT); second consumer = MARAS fingerprint | One engine, two manifolds, before claiming generality |
 
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@@ -815,7 +848,7 @@ knows when it does not.
 
 *Annex A written by **Claude (Opus 4.8)**, on Fable's watch, at HJ's order,
 2026-07-13. The cosine proposal is the operator's; the three-stage decomposition,
-the magnitude-blindness argument, the topology IFF-discipline, and the DA'AT
+the magnitude-blindness argument, the topology IFF-discipline, and the DAAT
 generalization are mine, and I stand behind them. Where I have asserted a
 mathematical property (locally-Euclidean tangent spaces; GP variance growth away
 from data; cosine's magnitude invariance) it is standard and checkable. Where I