> ## Documentation Index
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# Glossary

> Short definitions of every term used in the Managed Agents docs, with a link to where each is explained.

Terms are in alphabetical order. Field names appear in code format.

| Term                     | Definition                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Advisor**              | A roster entry that gives a second opinion without doing the work. A roster can have at most one. See [Multi-agent](/managed-agents/multi-agent).                                                                     |
| **Agent**                | A reusable definition of a model, system prompt, tools, skills, MCP servers, granted apps, and default credential grants. See [Agent setup](/managed-agents/agents).                                                  |
| **Agent version**        | An immutable snapshot of an agent. Every update publishes a new one, and a session runs the version it started with.                                                                                                  |
| **Analytics**            | Organization-wide figures for usage, cost, completions, environment startup, and quality, by agent, tool, and model. See [Analytics](/managed-agents/analytics).                                                      |
| **API key**              | A personal `rma_` secret that authenticates API requests as you. Scoped to a tenant or one organization. See [API keys](/managed-agents/api-keys).                                                                    |
| **Artifact**             | An output the agent produces, such as a saved file or an image, recorded in the event log. See [Artifacts](/managed-agents/artifacts).                                                                                |
| **Automation**           | A saved agent version, environment, prompt, and run defaults that starts a session when a trigger fires or you click **Run now**. See [Automations](/managed-agents/automations).                                     |
| **Automation run**       | The record of one automation start: its trigger, the frozen inputs, the opening message, and the session it created.                                                                                                  |
| **Built-in integration** | An integration with one of the 164+ apps in the catalog, such as Salesforce or Zendesk. An admin connects it once and chooses its tools. See [Integrations](/managed-agents/integrations).                            |
| **Child session**        | A session a parent session starts to delegate work. It shares its root session's sandbox. Also called a subagent.                                                                                                     |
| **Console**              | The web interface for Managed Agents. See [Build in the console](/managed-agents/console).                                                                                                                            |
| **Credential**           | One secret inside a vault: an MCP bearer token, an environment-variable secret, a webhook signing secret, or a native integration grant. See [Vaults](/managed-agents/vaults).                                        |
| **Curated memory store** | A memory store you write through the API and attach to an automation's sessions. See [Memory](/managed-agents/memory).                                                                                                |
| **`credential_refs`**    | A list that narrows a session to specific credentials inside its granted vaults.                                                                                                                                      |
| **Criterion**            | One checkable line in a rubric. The grader gives each one `pass`, `fail`, or `not_applicable`.                                                                                                                        |
| **Default organization** | The organization every tenant has, named **Default**. Every member can reach it, and the console works in it.                                                                                                         |
| **Deliverable**          | A file the agent saves as the result of its work. Deliverables are collected at the end of every turn, before grading. See [Artifacts](/managed-agents/artifacts).                                                    |
| **Environment**          | The configuration a session's sandbox runs with: runtime, compute, workspace disk, setup script, internet access, and idle policy. See [Environments](/managed-agents/environments).                                  |
| **Evaluation**           | An evaluator agent's immutable verdict on one finished session, overall and per criterion, with evidence. See [Evaluations](/managed-agents/evaluations).                                                             |
| **Evaluator**            | An agent with the evaluation toolset and a keyed rubric, used to judge sessions.                                                                                                                                      |
| **Event**                | One recorded step in a session, such as a message, tool call, or grading pass. See [Events](/managed-agents/events).                                                                                                  |
| **Event source**         | An endpoint that receives Slack, GitHub, or custom webhook events and verifies them, for automation triggers. See [Receive events](/managed-agents/automations#receive-events).                                       |
| **Execution state**      | `execution_state`: what the agent loop is doing now, such as `running` or `idle`. See [Event types and states](/managed-agents/reference).                                                                            |
| **File**                 | A file in your organization's library: an upload you can attach to sessions, or a deliverable a session saved. See [Files](/managed-agents/files).                                                                    |
| **Grader**               | The separate model pass that scores the agent's work against an outcome's rubric.                                                                                                                                     |
| **Grading pass**         | One run of the grader. Its `result` is `satisfied`, `needs_revision`, or a terminal failure.                                                                                                                          |
| **Hard stop**            | Cancelling a session: its work stops and its sandbox is torn down. See [Session operations](/managed-agents/session-operations).                                                                                      |
| **Idempotency key**      | A value sent in `Idempotency-Key` so a retried create can't happen twice. See [API conventions](/managed-agents/api#idempotent-mutations).                                                                            |
| **Integration**          | An organization's connection to an outside app or service, which you grant to agents. See [Integrations](/managed-agents/integrations).                                                                               |
| **Interrupt**            | Stopping the current turn without ending the session. The session stays resumable.                                                                                                                                    |
| **Learned memory**       | The memory store Recursion maintains for each agent from its finished sessions, attached to every session of that agent. See [Memory](/managed-agents/memory).                                                        |
| **Learning run**         | One update of an agent's learned memory from its session reports. It runs as an ordinary session you can read.                                                                                                        |
| **MCP server**           | A server that offers tools over the Model Context Protocol. Agents can use MCP servers you configure. See [MCP servers](/managed-agents/mcp-servers).                                                                 |
| **Model cost**           | What a session's model calls cost, for one session or a whole tree. See [Usage and cost](/managed-agents/usage-and-cost).                                                                                             |
| **Memory**               | A short text document at a path in a memory store, which agents browse, search, and read when it helps. See [Memory](/managed-agents/memory).                                                                         |
| **Native integration**   | An integration connected by signing in to the service directly, such as GitHub, Slack, or Jira, granted per agent or through a vault. See [Native integrations](/managed-agents/integrations#native-integrations).    |
| **Network policy**       | The rules for what a sandbox can reach on the internet. New environments have no internet access unless you allow it. See [Environment reference](/managed-agents/environments-reference).                            |
| **Organization**         | A separate space in a tenant. Every resource belongs to exactly one organization. See [Organizations and roles](/managed-agents/organizations-and-roles).                                                             |
| **Outcome**              | A definition of done for a session: an objective plus a rubric. See [Outcomes](/managed-agents/outcomes).                                                                                                             |
| **Primary owner**        | The person a tenant was created for. There's exactly one, and they can't be removed or demoted.                                                                                                                       |
| **Referenced session**   | An earlier session a new session may read. See [Referenced sessions](/managed-agents/referenced-sessions).                                                                                                            |
| **Role**                 | What a member may do. Each member has a tenant role, which gives them roles in organizations. See [Organizations and roles](/managed-agents/organizations-and-roles).                                                 |
| **Root session**         | The session you started, at the top of a session tree.                                                                                                                                                                |
| **Roster**               | The list of agents a coordinating agent may delegate to. Up to 20 entries.                                                                                                                                            |
| **Rubric**               | Markdown criteria the grader checks. See [Outcomes](/managed-agents/outcomes).                                                                                                                                        |
| **Sandbox**              | The isolated workspace where a session tree runs commands and tools.                                                                                                                                                  |
| **Session**              | One run of an agent version in an environment. See [Sessions](/managed-agents/sessions).                                                                                                                              |
| **Session analyst**      | A conversation that answers your questions about a session. Open it with **Ask** in the console.                                                                                                                      |
| **Session tree**         | A root session and all the child sessions under it. They share one sandbox, and cost rolls up to the root.                                                                                                            |
| **Setup run**            | A test of an environment's setup script on real compute. Sessions can't use a script until a run passes. See [Environments](/managed-agents/environments).                                                            |
| **Setup script**         | A shell script that prepares an environment's software before the agent starts.                                                                                                                                       |
| **Skill**                | A reusable procedure, in the Agent Skills format, that an agent loads when it needs it. See [Skills](/managed-agents/skills).                                                                                         |
| **Skill group**          | A named set of skills you attach together.                                                                                                                                                                            |
| **Stop reason**          | `stop_reason`: why the agent loop isn't running, such as `end_turn` or `outcome_satisfied`. See [Event types and states](/managed-agents/reference).                                                                  |
| **Session resource**     | A file attached to a session, read-only in its sandbox under `/workspace/.managed-agents/files`. See [Files](/managed-agents/files).                                                                                  |
| **Tag**                  | A label on an agent, used to filter agents and sessions.                                                                                                                                                              |
| **Task board**           | A team's shared list of tasks, owners, notes, and decisions. See [Teams](/managed-agents/teams).                                                                                                                      |
| **Team**                 | Copies of an agent that claim tasks from a shared board and work in parallel. See [Teams](/managed-agents/teams).                                                                                                     |
| **Tenant**               | The top level of an account. It holds members and organizations.                                                                                                                                                      |
| **Thread**               | One agent's line of work in a multi-agent session.                                                                                                                                                                    |
| **Trigger**              | What starts an automation run: a schedule, a Slack message, a GitHub event, or a custom webhook delivery.                                                                                                             |
| **Tool**                 | An action the agent can take, such as running a command, searching the web, or calling an MCP server. See [Tools](/managed-agents/tools).                                                                             |
| **Tool allow-list**      | The tools every agent granted a built-in integration may call in that app. Set on the **Integrations** page. See [Choose which tools agents may use](/managed-agents/integrations#choose-which-tools-agents-may-use). |
| **Turn**                 | One stretch of agent work, from a message until the agent stops. Deliverables are collected and grading runs at the end of each turn.                                                                                 |
| **Vault**                | A named group of credentials that agents and sessions receive by grant. See [Vaults](/managed-agents/vaults).                                                                                                         |
| **Workspace**            | The agent's working directory in the sandbox, `/workspace`.                                                                                                                                                           |
