| Term | Meaning in Sift |
|---|---|
| Orchestrator | The Node.js Express service that owns SQLite, ingest pipelines, and LLM calls. |
| Host | The Tauri (Rust) process: window, tray, native folder watcher. |
| Watch folder | User-selected directory monitored by the host; new files trigger ingest. |
| Ingest | Processing a file path: detect format, extract text/context, persist summary. |
| FHIR | Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources; Sift handles JSON Bundle-style exports with lightweight parsing (not a full FHIR server). |
| HL7 v2 | Pipe-delimited messages (for example segments starting with MSH|); minimal parsing for summarization. |
| OpenAI-compatible | HTTP API shaped like OpenAI chat completions (/v1/chat/completions), used by many local servers. |
| Sidecar | Auxiliary binary shipped beside the main app (for example pkg’d Node backend or llama-server). |
| Confidence | Score stored with a summary; higher when structured extraction is strong and/or LLM succeeded. |
sift.db |
SQLite database file containing settings and document records. |