| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Canonical story | A Qoory news record that clusters related source articles into one story. |
| Citation | Source context linked to a specific claim or value. |
| Credit | A unit used to meter research or Developer API work. |
| Entity | A stable Qoory record such as a project, token, person, fund, X account, stock, event, news story, or narrative. |
| Entity graph | The entities and stored relationships used by search, profiles, rankings, and reports. |
| Entity resolution | Matching names, aliases, symbols, handles, links, and context to a stable entity. |
| Hot score | A short-window momentum score based on several recent signals and project age. |
| Hot tier | A label such as viral, hot, rising, early, or watch derived from hot score and signal coverage. |
| MCP | Model Context Protocol, used by supported AI clients to call Qoory tools through a remote server. |
| Narrative | A bounded representation of a developing social conversation, its actors, timeline, and evidence previews. |
| Nullable field | A field that can be unavailable rather than filled with a guessed or zero value. |
| OpenAPI | The machine-readable contract used to generate Qoory REST API reference pages. |
| Project score | A freshness-adjusted, multi-signal ranking score for general project relevance. |
| Qoory Skill | An agent instruction package that prefers Qoory MCP and can fall back to bounded REST operations. |
| Resolver | A bounded lookup that returns candidate entity identifiers and detail paths. |
| Source observation | A value or record associated with the time and context in which it was collected. |
| TVL | Total value locked, a DeFi metric whose definition and coverage can vary by source. |
| X account | A public social account represented separately from a person or project until a supported link exists. |
Glossary
Definitions for Qoory entities, research signals, and Developer Platform terms.