Glossary

One vocabulary,
plainly defined.

Each word, what it means, and the closest familiar idea.

The team

Conductor: The AI you talk to and name. It plans, assigns and reports, but can’t approve anything for you. Like a chief of staff, without signing authority.
Seat: A stable role on your team, such as Builder or Reviewer. The model behind it can change. Like a job title, not a person.
Squad: All your seats together, local and cloud. Like a small team.
Stone: A seat’s visual identity: an irregular pebble in its own colour, with its initial. Like an avatar, with no face.
Grade: The share of a seat’s finished work that passed independent review. Like a track record, not a self-rating.
Sentinel: A built-in adversarial checker on a different model family. It can flag and escalate, never approve. Like an auditor.
Private mind: A local model running on your own computer. Like an on-device assistant.

Brief: What you want, in your words, with budget and boundaries. Like a request.
Plan: The 14-section document your conductor writes from a brief. You approve a specific version. Like a project proposal.
PROJECT.md: The short brief every seat must read before working on a project. Like a README for the team.
Board: The plan’s stories and tasks, and where each one stands. Like a kanban board.
Council: Several seats answering the same question on their own, then debating with evidence. Like a panel, where disagreement is kept.
Feed: Where seats post what they found or noticed, and you can reply. Like a team timeline.
Errand: A real-world task: a booking, a purchase, a meeting. Like a personal assistant’s to-do.

Engine: The deterministic system every action passes through. It isn’t a model. Like a rules engine.
Gate: One of four checks: Scope, Evidence, Authority, Ledger. Like a checkpoint.
Approval: Your yes to one exact action. It stops counting if anything about the action changes. Like a signature on a specific document.
Lease: A timed permission with limits, such as “send calendar invites for two hours”. Like a temporary key.
Vault: Encrypted storage for keys, passwords and tokens that seats can use but never see. Like a password manager that fills in for you.
Receipt: The record of one action: who asked, what ran, what it cost, what happened. Like a bank statement line.
Ledger: All receipts, in order. Like an audit log.
Checkpoint: A saved step, so work resumes after a restart without repeating anything. Like autosave.
Reconcile: Checking the real world when an action’s outcome is unknown, before deciding whether to retry. Like checking your bank before paying twice.
Stop: Halts every seat and action at once and revokes leases. Like an emergency stop.

Glue: A connection between your Ghloo and someone else’s, for one purpose, until a set end. Like email between assistants.
Address: Your conductor’s address, such as nova@julius.ghloo.ai. Like an email address.
Agent card: A published description of what your conductor accepts, and its public key. Like a mail server’s records.
Envelope: A signed message between conductors, tied to an agreement. Like a signed email.

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