codexproof's name for the full evidence-producing query - ask the gateway a question, it fans across the stores, structures the results into provenance templates, gets them sealed, and returns answer plus envelope.
The system's verb, drawn end to end: fan out, structure, seal, return with the transcript.
Etymology and backstory
the word choice is deliberate rhetoric - stronger than "query," it frames retrieval as examination under oath: the system does not just answer, it testifies, and the envelope is the transcript. Legal register recurs across the paper's vocabulary (evidence, custody, testimony, attestation) because the design's whole point is answers that survive cross-examination.
Ecosystem
no external standard - this is the paper's own coinage for its core verb, the way in-toto owns "layout" and SLSA owns "levels." Owning a verb is part of owning a waist.
In codexproof
POST /interrogate (main.rs line 83, handler at line 560) - the JIT gateway entry point: template, proxy sign, assemble. The +88.6us p50 capture overhead is the interrogation surcharge; the off mode measures the same path without sealing. Five occurrences in the paper make it the system's signature verb.