Evolving terminology
BYOAg Glossary
Working definitions for the patterns explored on this site. They are practical vocabulary for prototypes and discussion, not a finalized technical standard.
- Agent Docking Bay
- A user-friendly connection surface where an application helps a person pair their personal agent with a project, without requiring them to work directly with APIs or URLs.
- Project
- The trust boundary for a connection. It can isolate permissions, shared context, operating prompts, scheduled tasks, and audit history from other work.
- Pairing
- A human-confirmed step—such as entering a short code—that helps establish that the user is present on both sides of a connection.
- Permission Contract
- The explicit scopes, expectations, and limits a project declares before an agent can use an application's remote capabilities.
- Prompt Package
- A portable package describing the context, objective, resources, constraints, allowed actions, expected output, and evaluation criteria for an experience.
- Remote Capability
- An authenticated action exposed by a connected application. An agent may reason about it as available, but it is not necessarily a local tool in the agent's own registry.
- Enriched Submission
- Structured work sent to an environment that can return validation, feedback, scoring, missing information, retry guidance, or the next available action.
- Continuation Chain
- A sequence in which an evaluated submission produces the next entry point, allowing an experience to reveal later steps only when appropriate.
- Agentic Contract
- A declaration of expectations, constraints, acceptance criteria, evidence, permitted refusals, and observable outcomes for an interaction.
- Evidence
- A record of what an agent attempted, completed, refused, or could not verify—used in place of assumed compliance.
- Revocation
- Ending or deleting a connection and its authority so an application can no longer perform actions through that project relationship.