Reflection is the base technology that lets a Tom application assemble itself at runtime and lets tools read a codebase's API without re-running the analyzer.

The D4rt Interpreter is where Tom runs and generates Dart code at runtime, inside a permission-guarded sandbox, without ahead-of-time compilation.

Tom Brain is the intelligence layer of the Tom framework: from the outside it looks like an ordinary OpenAI-format LLM API server, but inside it is a single always-running engine that runs procedures — sandboxed D4rt scripts — over a self-organising, "dreaming" graph memory.

The Docspecs/Codespecs Software Factory is the staged, AI-assisted process by which Tom applications are created — from an initial idea, through structured specifications, to working, tested code — with complete traceability from a business requirement to the implementation and the test that covers it.

Build tools are the command-line machinery that develops, builds, tests, documents, and deploys the Tom framework and the applications made with it.

The Core Application Framework is the foundation every Tom application is built on: a Flutter client and a Dart server joined by a typed interface, both resting on a shared kernel.

This area is how the Tom framework is developed inside the editor: a VS Code extension that hosts a Dart bridge, so framework tooling and automation can be written in Dart — the same language as the framework itself — with full access to the VS Code API.