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.
Affordance	A runtime capability (browser, computerUse, terminal, nativeMcp…) used for capability routing.
PACER	Memory routing classification: Procedural / Analogical / Conceptual / Evidence / Reference.

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.
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.
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.

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.

Every AGENTIS_* environment variable — data directories, HTTP binding, model routing, media providers, and observability.