An assistant powered by an AI language model, which you direct in its chatbox and which can act with Gridtop's tools, within its permissions. (Chapter 11.)
Agent harness
A program that runs AI agents of its own, such as OpenClaw or Hermes; joined to Gridtop in the Harness app. (32.3.)
The folder on your drive where Gridtop keeps what it makes for you: agents, Tasks, Skills, Roles, Tools, Blueprints, websites' staged versions, recordings, and the Receptaculum. (6.3.)
API key
A code, issued to you by another service, that lets Gridtop use that service on your behalf. (13.1.)
The Editor, docked in the left pane above the Directorium. (23.4.)
Command block
A command from an agent, set apart in the colours of the Terminal tab it runs in, with Run and Copy. (12.13.)
Connection
A line from one object to another, meaning the first serves or uses the second; it is also what gives an agent access to the object. (Chapter 7, 16.8.)
Content model
A template shaped for one kind of business: its sections, home-page order and look. (26.7.)
An entry that tells the internet where a domain's website and email are. (30.2.)
Effort
How hard a model thinks before it answers, set with the Effort chip. (13.7.)
EQ band
One of the sliders that tune how an agent replies. (14.1.)
Ethocana
Gridtop's house AI, included with your Gridtop; it runs free models, or a model on your own PC. (13.5, 40.1.)
Figure
A picture in this manual, numbered GT-001 onward.
gridform
A grid of objects (agents, files, folders, websites and workflow components) whose placement and connection lines describe how work is carried out. Gridtop is one. (1.1.)
Gridtop
A gridform of workflow components, websites, files and folders, on which you control AI agents and agentic processes visually, with objects; in your browser or in Autocomputing '26.
Integration
A connection to another service, such as an MCP server or Zapier, kept as an object and connected to the agents that use it. (Chapter 32.)
Marquee
A box drawn with the middle mouse button to select objects: gold to group, magenta to connect. (5.3.)
Max Steps
How many steps an agent may take on one request or Task. (14.1, 16.1.)
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
A common way for a service to offer its tools to AI agents, and for outside agents to reach your Gridtop. (32.2, 32.3.)
Memory
Notes an agent carries into every conversation. (18.1.)
Mode
A short instruction added on top of an agent's preset. (14.4.)
A copy of a website's files, kept before Gridtop changes them. (25.1.)
Role
Who an agent is: its character, instruction, tuning and what it carries. (16.3.)
Skill
Know-how an agent can draw on, kept as a SKILL.md. (16.2.)
Staged version
A whole copy of a website, kept at A:/Agentic Matrix/Projects/<domain>/Staging and shown in the Web Editor; it reaches the live site only when deployed. (26.6.)
Standing rule
Something an agent must always, or never, do. (16.7.)
Task
A standing piece of work, written down, connected to the agents that do it. (16.1.)
Template (website)
A finished website, on a shared core, from which a staged version is made. (26.7.)
Token
A piece of a word; the unit by which models read, write and are charged. (21.1.)
Tool
A capability an agent can use, such as writing a file. (16.4.)
Usage card
The card that opens from an agent's chat meters, showing what it is spending. (13.8.)
Web Editor
The page that opens on a staged version's private preview address, where the version is annotated, edited, designed and laid out, with an agent beside you. (Chapter 27.)
A container object with a grid of its own inside. (Chapter 17.)
Retired terms
The Windows app's earlier names (now Autocomputing '26), Autocoding and Autocoding sessions (replaced by the Web Editor and the Code Editor), genome and website builder (replaced by templates), session in Memory Banks.
