Optional ReadonlyclaimA word the backend runs ahead of the registry on a direct line, and after the registry's envelope commands on a captured one (ChRIS: a plugin named with its version). Null when the word is not one.
Optional ReadonlyhelpHelp for a word the registry has no page for, or null to let the core say it has none.
Optional ReadonlyunknownA word nothing else answered. The envelope it returns has been
delivered; null means the backend does not know the word either, and
the core says command not found.
What a backend does with a command word the registry does not answer.
The core runs a line in one of two ways: directly, its output going to the surface, or captured, its output feeding a pipe or a redirect. Each asks the backend at fixed points, so a backend's words are found where they always were.