These tools run against the local filesystem on the research machine — servers, skills, indexers, and graph writers that no static page can execute. This page describes the estate and probes which front doors are answering right now; nothing here pretends a static page can run them.
Content-addressed, regenerated by build scripts, safe to delete and rebuild from source. It records what exists, never what you think of it. On this portal: everything under data/ — the search index, the registry, this console's own inventory.
Stars, trail, notes, tiers, heat — the source of truth for curation, and the one store that cannot be regenerated. On this portal: your browser's localStorage, exportable from the Trail drawer as portal-overlay JSON.
The same split runs the Research Deck — research_index.json is corpus, deck.json is overlay — a pattern shared across the estate.