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."