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Glossary

The words used across the platform and these pages, each in one sentence.

Word	What it means
Desk	A part of the company an agent covers: finance, back office, sales, operations, management, HR, marketing.
Agent	The role that does the work on a desk. It has memory, rules and access. Never a person with a made up name.
Job	One process that runs: its trigger, its plan, its tools and its limits.
Run	One execution of a job, with a start, steps, a cost and a result.
Plan	The job written in plain language, approved by a person before anything is built.
Trigger	What starts a run: a schedule, a webhook, a form, or a manual test.
Script	The deterministic part of a job. Same input, same result, no model cost.
Fallback	The agent finishing a run when the script cannot, then repairing the script.
Handoff	The script deliberately passing one decision to the agent, with the context prepared.
Connection	An access to one of your systems: an API key, a sign-in, a service account or an MCP server.
Norm	A rule of the platform, written by Scytian, the same for every customer.
Rule	Your rule, for your desk or your job, written down and readable.
Skill	A written procedure an agent follows for a task that repeats.
Memory	What an agent has learned and had confirmed, in text you can read and change.
Contract	The agreement about what a job must produce: the fields and what counts as correct.
Truth	The correct answers you confirmed on your own files, used to score the job.
Gate	The number a job has to reach before it can be switched on.
Timeline	The record of every run and every step, with costs and decisions.
Inbox	Where a question from an agent waits for a person.
Model	The language model a step uses when it needs judgement. Anthropic’s Claude models, under business terms.
Runner	The isolated container in which your agents run. One per customer.
Control room	The part of the platform that holds plans, the timeline and encrypted keys.