Glossary

Terms used across TongueToQuill, its templates, and the Quillmark format.

Advanced Mode. Raw-markdown editing surface, with syntax highlighting. The alternative to Visual Mode. The underlying document is identical in both modes.

Card. A single ~~~card-yaml frontmatter block plus its prose body. A Quillmark document is a sequence of one or more cards. The first card is the root card; subsequent cards are typically indorsements or attachments-as-sections.

card-yaml. The fenced YAML block format used in Quillmark frontmatter. Fences are ~~~card-yaml (open) and ~~~ (close), both at column zero.

Classification banner. A color-coded marking at the top and bottom of every page, derived from the document's classification frontmatter field. Per the usaf_memo Quill's DoD/CAPCO-aligned colors: green for UNCLASSIFIED, black for CUI and CONFIDENTIAL, red for SECRET, orange for TOP SECRET. Blank classification produces no banner.

Community template. A template published by a non-official user on this deployment. Appears in the gallery's community filter.

CUI. Controlled Unclassified Information per DoDI 5200.48. A classification level supported by the USAF / USSF memo Quills.

Ephemeral document. A document created via the MCP server that has no owner yet. Lives for a short claim window (typically 5 min); becomes a regular document when an authenticated user opens its magic link. See AI Integration.

Fork. Create an independent, editable copy of a public document. The original is untouched. Anyone reading a public document can fork it.

Frontmatter. The structured metadata at the top of a card. In Quillmark, frontmatter is YAML inside a ~~~card-yaml fence.

Indorsement. A chained response or routing block appended to a memorandum. Each indorsement is its own card with $kind: indorsement. See Indorsements.

Magic link. A document URL — usually /ephemeral/<id> — returned by the MCP create_document tool. The first authenticated user to open it claims ownership.

MCP. Model Context Protocol. The protocol used by TongueToQuill's AI integration endpoint at /mcp. See AI Integration.

Memorandum For Record (MFR). A memo with no specific recipient — used to document something for the file. Rendered from a USAF memo with memo_from omitted.

Metadata widget. The form in the editor that renders a template's frontmatter as a structured form. Each field corresponds to a frontmatter key.

Office symbol. The short form of a unit and function — e.g., 20 FW/CC for 20th Fighter Wing Commander. The renderer uppercases office symbols on MEMORANDUM FOR lines.

Publish (template). Take a snapshot of a document and expose it in the template gallery. Subsequent edits to the document don't change the template until you republish.

Quill. A template package — frontmatter schema + Typst layout + assets — bound to a document via $quill. The Quill defines the contract: if frontmatter validates, the layout is correct.

Quillmark. The format (CommonMark + card-yaml frontmatter) and the rendering engine (Rust workspace, also published as WASM/Python/CLI) used by TongueToQuill. See Quillmark Format.

Quiver. A bundle of Quills shipped together. Each TongueToQuill deployment picks one Quiver at install time (e.g., @airmark/quiver for the Airmark deployment).

Recents. Per-user (or per-device, for guests) row in the template gallery showing the templates you've imported most recently.

Reset to Published. Roll a document back to the content of its associated published template's last snapshot. Available only for documents created from a template.

Schema. The set of allowed frontmatter fields, their types, defaults, and constraints for a given Quill. Retrievable via the MCP get_specs tool.

Star. Bookmark a template. Starred templates appear in the gallery's starred row across all your devices and contribute to the template's public star count.

Template. A published document snapshot in the gallery. Importing a template produces a new document seeded with the template's content. Distinct from a Quill (which is the format package).

Visual Mode. The default rich-text editing surface. The alternative is Advanced Mode.