marbles

pl.n. [from mainstream lost all his/her marbles ] The minimum needed to
build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions. After a
bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to
come up on its own, or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from backups, or if
you need to rebuild from scratch. This compiler doesn't even have enough
marbles to compile hello world.

