> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://aidocs.ethanbragdon.icu/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Starfire AI Glossary

> Definitions for the core terms used across Starfire AI, FORGE, Knowledge, automation, billing, and the Developer Platform.

# Starfire AI glossary

Use this page as the canonical terminology reference for the Starfire AI platform.

| Term                   | Meaning                                                                                                                         |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Account**            | A person's Starfire identity, including authentication, profile, sessions, personal resources, and membership in organizations. |
| **Agent**              | A reusable AI configuration with durable instructions, capabilities, and execution boundaries.                                  |
| **Application**        | A Developer Platform container for credentials, webhooks, usage, and integration ownership.                                     |
| **Artifact**           | A durable output produced by a Starfire workflow, especially FORGE builds.                                                      |
| **BillingAccount**     | The Starfire billing context that connects a person or organization to subscription, credit, and Stripe customer state.         |
| **Build**              | A FORGE software job that plans, writes or modifies files, validates, repairs, packages, and produces artifacts.                |
| **Control Center**     | Starfire's privileged platform-administration and operations interface.                                                         |
| **Credit**             | Starfire's internal unit for eligible platform compute and feature usage.                                                       |
| **Developer Platform** | The programmatic Starfire surface for APIs, credentials, applications, webhooks, runs, usage, and integrations.                 |
| **Entitlement**        | A capability or limit granted by plan, organization policy, rollout, or administrator configuration.                            |
| **FORGE**              | Starfire's software-generation, repair, validation, repository-intelligence, and artifact system.                               |
| **Knowledge**          | Persistent reference material indexed for later retrieval, including documents, repositories, and supported sources.            |
| **Knowledge Base**     | A named collection of indexed Knowledge sources with a defined owner and access boundary.                                       |
| **Model**              | An AI model presented through Starfire's model catalog.                                                                         |
| **Organization**       | A shared team ownership, billing, permission, project, and policy boundary.                                                     |
| **Project**            | A durable workspace for related conversations, files, Knowledge, research, builds, and artifacts.                               |
| **Project OS**         | Starfire's persistent project-context architecture for long-running work.                                                       |
| **Provider**           | The upstream service that hosts or serves a model, search service, embedding model, or another platform dependency.             |
| **RAG**                | Retrieval-augmented generation: retrieving relevant Knowledge and adding it to model context for a response.                    |
| **Research Run**       | A long-running research workflow that can plan searches, gather sources, evaluate claims, and generate a cited result.          |
| **Route**              | A configured path from Starfire to a specific provider/model combination.                                                       |
| **Run**                | A durable execution record for work that can outlive one synchronous request.                                                   |
| **Scope**              | A narrow permission granted to a developer credential or execution identity.                                                    |
| **Service Account**    | A non-human identity intended for software or automation workloads.                                                             |
| **Session**            | An authenticated interactive login instance associated with an account and client/device.                                       |
| **Tool**               | A capability a model or workflow can call, such as search, retrieval, calculation, validation, filesystem work, or packaging.   |
| **Watcher**            | Automation that checks for a condition and begins work or notifies someone when the condition is met.                           |
| **Workflow**           | A multi-step automation with state, tools, agents, limits, and optional approval gates.                                         |

## Terminology rules

Starfire documentation uses **account** for a person's identity and **organization** for a team boundary. It uses **run** for long-running execution generally and **build** for a FORGE-specific software job.

<Note>
  Terms can gain additional fields during Alpha development, but the conceptual distinctions on this page should remain stable unless a release note explicitly changes them.
</Note>