Reference · 12.08
Glossary
The vocabulary, in one place — Durable Entity, RAL, PACER, SWIFT verdict, Objective, ViewNode, and more.
Glossary
Core terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Durable Entity | Restart-durable, single-writer record with a typed inbox and a wake clock. |
| Ledger | Append-only, monotonic-per-run event history for replay and recovery. |
| EventBus | Realtime publish bridge for workspace, run, and workflow rooms. |
| RAL | Runtime Abstraction Layer — one normalized contract over many model runtimes. |
| Runtime Capability Manifest | A versioned, adapter-provided declaration of runtime capabilities and configuration-sensitive requirements, checked before dispatch. It supports namespaced capabilities and allOf/anyOf alternatives. |
| PACER | Memory routing classification: Procedural / Analogical / Conceptual / Evidence / Reference. |
| Ownership source | The durable link between an imported Agentis agent and its external harness identity, root path, synchronization mode, and policy. |
| Staged sync item | A versioned external memory, skill, identity, or deletion change waiting for policy evaluation or operator review. |
| Quarantine | A sync state for low-quality or untrusted content that blocks automatic application while preserving evidence and reviewability. |
| Trusted auto-sync | A bounded synchronization mode that applies only policy-eligible content; it never overrides quarantine. |
Orchestration & apps
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Objective | Run-scoped acceptance checks that define "done" — "Goal" is reserved for a future longer-lived tier. |
| SWIFT verdict | The world-probing engine that distinguishes accomplished from merely completed. |
| Blueprint law | A blessed graph is never autonomously restructured; repair requires certification and a rollback path. |
| Orchestration rule | A persisted typed-event subscription that can filter, map input, coalesce, and success-gate an activation of another workflow. |
| Delivery journal | The durable record of a concrete rule activation, including its identity, payload snapshot, lease, retries, outcome, and evidence. |
| Converge / Pursue | Iterate a cohort sub-graph until a done-check; Pursue adds ASSESS + REFLECT stall detection. |
| ViewNode | The typed node in an AG-UI surface tree — layout, data, interaction, agent-native widgets. |
| Surface outline | A compact, stable-identity inspection of a live surface: node IDs, bindings, and declared actions without forcing an agent to load the whole tree. |
| Record action | A state-aware action contract with optional visibility, disabled predicates, confirmation, and recursively bound arguments. |
| Governed transition | A Kanban or state-view move allowed only when its declared source/target transition and action contract permit it. |
| App-of-one | A standalone workflow auto-wrapped into an App so it gains a product shell and a data loop. |
| Green ratchet | Atomic Evolution's monotonic rule: a mid-run graph change may never introduce a new regression, though pre-existing ones may persist. |
Reach & sovereignty
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Subject | A durable per-person or per-device actor that can wait for a reply without spending tokens. |
| MCP plane (bilateral) | Agentis both consumes external MCP servers and publishes its own workflows as MCP tools. |
| A2A | Published workflows exposed as agent-to-agent skills via the same execution path as MCP. |
| Ambient | An environment — local, dev, staging, prod, fleet, or custom — with its own secrets vault. |
| Workspace bundle | An encrypted, portable export of a workspace — the profile (backup/share/sell) is the secrets boundary. |
| Compass | The compass.next paved-road hint carried in every settled tool result. |