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Glossary A–Z

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About ten sample terms ship with v1. Add a Markdown file in content/glossary to publish a new entry.

A

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    Agent

    A system that pursues a goal by taking actions in an environment, not only by generating text.

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    Autonomy

    How many actions a system may take without a human confirming — a spectrum, not a personality.

B

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    Benchmark

    A frozen set of tasks plus a scoring rule. It is not the same as your production job.

C

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    Context window

    How much text a model can see at once — instructions, history, tool results, and retrieved notes.

H

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    Harness

    The runtime around a model — loop, tools, memory, permissions, and stop conditions.

L

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    Language model (LLM)

    A model trained to predict text; today's "AI agents" almost always wrap one.

M

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    Multi-agent

    More than one model (or role) collaborating, often as planner, worker, or critic.

P

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    Prompt

    The instructions and context given to a language model for a single step or a whole run.

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    Tool use

    Letting a model call APIs, a browser, a shell, or other programs, then reading the result.