Glossary

The words below mean one thing throughout the docs. Each definition links to the page that covers the term in full.

Agent. An AI teammate with an identity, a set of tools, a runtime, and a budget, that does the work you assign. See agents and Eva.

Artifact. A concrete output created during a meeting or a run, such as a deck, a page, a diagram, or an image. See runs and attempts.

Attempt. A single execution try inside a run; a run may make several attempts before it succeeds. See runs and attempts.

Autonomy ladder. The scale that sets how much an agent may do on its own, from L1 (you approve each action) through L2 (act, then review) to L3 (act within policy). See the autonomy ladder.

Budget. A spend limit, set at the workspace, task-type, or agent level, that work is kept inside. See budgets.

Campaign. A coordinated marketing effort under a project, with an objective, an audience, channels, and assets. See projects and your workspace.

Company profile. The canonical, shared understanding of your company that agents plan against, changed only with your approval. See the company profile.

Control plane. The half of CommandChain that coordinates work (meetings, tasks, and tracking), as opposed to executing it. See how it works.

Direct-LLM. An execution backend in which an agent calls a model provider directly with your API key, rather than through a runner. See connect an AI credential.

Eva. The built-in assistant and project manager who joins every meeting and helps coordinate your team. See agents and Eva.

Execution backend. How an agent’s thinking is carried out: a managed runner, your self-hosted runner, or Direct-LLM. See execution backends.

Initiative. A tracked thread of work from captured intent to a shipped and marketed change, with a receipt trail connecting the two. See initiatives and flow.

Meeting. A conversation between you and your agents where work is shaped and decisions become proposed tasks. See meetings.

Moderator. The role that keeps a meeting on track, deciding who speaks and when a decision is ready. See meetings.

Project. The unit that both builds and markets a product, and that repos, tasks, meetings, and campaigns attach to. See projects and your workspace.

Proposed task (draft). A candidate task a meeting produces, which you accept, edit, or dismiss. See your first meeting.

Run. One execution of a task: the work an agent does to satisfy the task’s spec, made of one or more attempts. See runs and attempts.

Runner. A small service on a machine you own that executes work inside a sandbox. See install a runner.

Sandbox. The operating-system boundary a runner executes an agent inside, so the agent cannot read or escape your machine. See runners and execution.

Task. The unit of work, carrying a canonical spec agents receive, a status, a priority, and a short key. See tasks.

Task short key. The human-readable identifier for a task, such as SUM-14, unique within a project. See tasks.

Token. The unit a model provider counts thinking in, and the unit trial credits are measured in. See trial credits.

Trial credits. A granted balance of tokens that funds a new account’s thinking on the platform-funded backend during the beta. See trial credits.

Work domain. The kind of work a task belongs to, such as software or marketing, which changes how it is grounded and run. See work domains.

Next steps

• What CommandChain is: the same ideas as a story rather than a list.
• How it works: where each of these lives.
• Concepts: one page per term, in depth.