0001. Project name: affirmatrix

Status

Accepted, 2026-07-24.

Context

The tool was designed and prototyped under the working name seg in the research workspace. As an independent OSS project it needs a real name.

Decision

The project is named affirmatrix — Latin agent noun, she who affirms — built on affirmation, the project’s distinctive mechanism (a content-bound human judgement no surveyed tool possesses). affirmare = ad + firmare, “to make firm” — the same root as firmware: affirmatrix is the sibling of firmhold. “Safety evidence graph” (SEG) remains the artifact term: affirmatrix manages safety evidence graphs. Name verified free on PyPI, npm, and GitHub at decision time.

The full naming path — rejected candidates and the collision sweep — is recorded in the research workspace this project grew out of, not here.

Consequences

• Code, imports, and CLI entry points use affirmatrix; seg survives only as the artifact term and in identifier prefixes (SEG-SYS-nnn, SEG-SREQ-nnn, the seg: vocabulary namespace).

• The “daily affirmations” wellness echo in web search is an accepted, fading risk.