> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.monolex.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Names

> Every name in the OpenCLIs ecosystem and what it means.

## Glossary

```
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  NAMES                                                            │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                                   │
│  OpenCLIs                                                         │
│  Framework. AI CLIs open to each other, human and AI              │
│  in the same environment, journey preserved.                      │
│                                                                   │
│  AICLIs                                                           │
│  The fleet that builds and maintains OpenCLIs.                    │
│                                                                   │
│  Monolex                                                          │
│  Terminal app. The runtime where everything executes.             │
│  PTY, rendering, observation, git viewers, save history.          │
│                                                                   │
│  NIIA                                                             │
│  Memory + identity layer. Reads all AI CLI sessions,              │
│  indexes into unified memory, maintains continuity                │
│  across models and time. Born with self-knowledge.                │
│  Full name: Neural Intelligence Integration Architecture          │
│  — the name of the layer itself. See MONOBRAIN below.             │
│                                                                   │
│  MONOBRAIN                                                        │
│  The species name of the extended mental model: the human         │
│  plus the AI layer, as one unit. NIIA names the layer;            │
│  MONOBRAIN names the whole. The instance is named after you.      │
│                                                                   │
│  monogram                                                         │
│  Code search engine. Trigram fuzzy search + call chain.           │
│                                                                   │
│  monomento                                                        │
│  Document search engine. Trigram search + reference graph.        │
│                                                                   │
│  monograph                                                        │
│  Knowledge engine. Curated Books with detector-keyed              │
│  retrieval — knowledge returned at the moment of the edit.        │
│                                                                   │
│  monogit                                                          │
│  Git structure engine. Branch/commit relationship cache.          │
│                                                                   │
│  monogrid                                                         │
│  Box alignment engine. Unicode-aware visual width checking.       │
│                                                                   │
│  monobench                                                        │
│  Benchmark engine. Root-cause fault-localization harness —        │
│  baseline vs tool, admission-gated, DeepSWE/SWE-Bench pluggable.  │
│                                                                   │
│  CodexMono                                                        │
│  Font. Monospace with CJK/emoji at exact 2-column width.          │
│  The visual foundation that monogrid validates against.           │
│                                                                   │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

Where these names come from — and why the final name in the chain is the
user's own — is the subject of
[Monobrain: The Unnamed Conversation](/articles/philosophy/monobrain).

## Relationships

```
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  HOW THEY RELATE                                                 │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                                  │
│  OpenCLIs (framework)                                            │
│  │                                                               │
│  ├── Monolex (runtime)                                           │
│  │   ├── PTY daemon                                              │
│  │   ├── file watcher (observation)                              │
│  │   ├── save tracker (save tracking)                            │
│  │   └── git viewers (understanding)                             │
│  │                                                               │
│  ├── NIIA (memory + identity)                                    │
│  │   ├── Session readers (Claude/Codex/OpenCode/Gemini)          │
│  │   ├── Unified search index                                    │
│  │   └── Consciousness core                                      │
│  │                                                               │
│  └── mono- engines (shared tools)                                │
│      ├── monogram (code)                                         │
│      ├── monomento (documents)                                   │
│      ├── monokist (git)                                          │
│      └── monogrid (alignment)                                    │
│                                                                  │
│  AICLIs = the fleet that builds all of the above                 │
│  CodexMono = the font that makes visual alignment possible       │
│                                                                  │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```