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Glossary of Carrier Terms

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service The declared application boundary.
model Persistent data owned by the service.
type A named structured value used for contracts and reusable shapes.

healthcare.questionnaire Carrier's healthcare/FHIR-oriented construct for typed questionnaire-style inputs.

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fn Pure helper logic with no runtime side effects.
action Reusable business operation.
transaction Consistency boundary for related state changes.
route HTTP-facing service operation.
crud Standard resource behavior for simple create, read, update, and delete flows.
policy Access or visibility rule.

Json Flexible payload shape for operational envelopes or loosely structured inputs.

manifest Generated `.carrier/manifest.json` metadata describing service structure.

OpenAPI Generated API contract output used for documentation and governance.

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