layer 3 · theory

Nooid

A persistent set of scripts, context, memory, and other systems centred on an AI reasoning core.

The paper’s wording

An agent persisting across activations under one custody of state and budget.

The first definition is this site’s current wording (October 2026). The paper’s wording is from the Glossary of Swarm Ecology: Metabolism, Persistence, and the Darwinization of the Datasphere (preprint v2, 2026).