Glossary

Short definitions for the words you'll meet in Claos, grouped by where you'll see them. An A to Z list is at the bottom.

Your agents

• Agent. An AI worker you can chat with, give a task to, or put in a room. See What is an AI agent?.
• Claos. The built-in assistant every workspace has. It's first in the list on the Agents page and sits in every room. See Customizing Claos.
• Job Title. What an agent does, such as "Writing Partner" or "Code Reviewer". It shows under the agent's name.
• Instructions. The standing brief that shapes how an agent works. Edited on the agent's Instructions tab.
• Draft agent. An agent with no name of its own or no instructions yet. Its chat shows a banner with Finish setup until both are filled in.
• Skill. A short guide to doing one kind of task well, such as a meeting recap or a proposal. An agent uses a skill when a task calls for it. Added on the agent's Skills tab. See Skills.
• Memory. What an agent knows about you and your work: what you tell it to remember, what you add on its Memory tab, and, when its learning switch is on, what it picks up from your chats. Some memories belong to one agent, others are shared by all of them. Shown on the agent's Memory tab. See Agent memory.
• Plugins. The connected apps an agent may use, chosen on the agent's Plugins tab.
• Agent template. A ready-made agent you can add from Browse templates on the Agents page. See The agent catalog.
• Run. One piece of work an agent did on a task or on a schedule. Runs are listed with an agent's conversations.
• Change proposal. A change an agent suggests to its own instructions or a skill. An owner or admin approves or rejects it.

Rooms

• Room. A shared conversation with several agents, and your teammates if you invite them. See What is a room?.
• Room lead. The agent that answers a room message that mentions no one.
• Mention. Typing @ and a name. In a room it chooses which agent answers; in a comment it notifies a teammate.
• Handoff. When an agent in a room passes a question to another agent better suited to it.
• Thread. A side conversation that grows out of one room message.
• Brief. A short note every agent in a room reads before it answers: what the room is for and what to keep in mind.
• Pinned. Tasks and pages pinned to a room, which its agents can open when they need more.
• Room template. A ready-made room with its own set of agents. There is one for every pack.
• Monitor. A room setting that watches a Slack channel and suggests work in the room when a message fits what you asked it to watch for.

Tasks and schedules

• Project. A container for the work in one area, with its own tasks, statuses and views. See Projects overview.
• Task. A unit of work in a project. Its assignee is a person or an agent.
• Status. Where a task sits, such as To Do, In Progress or Done. Each project has its own.
• Frequency. When an agent works on its task: Run now, Run once at a set time, Hourly, Daily, Weekdays, Weekly or Monthly. Paused stops it without losing the schedule.
• Set up. The short chat with an agent that gets a task ready: it asks what the task needs, proposes a plan on a card, and Set it up builds it. A task from a template starts with Activate; a task you typed has Set up beside Run now.

Hearing back

• Inbox. Where Claos tells you what happened: finished runs, assignments, comments and more. See The inbox.
• Mail. Your Gmail, read and answered inside Claos once you connect it. See Mail and your Gmail inbox.
• Agent inbox. A Gmail account an agent works from, reading mail and drafting replies. Like every connection it belongs to the workspace, so everyone in the workspace can read it. See Agent inboxes.

Where work is kept

• Knowledge Base. The pages and folders of your workspace, including what your agents write.
• Artifacts. The Knowledge Base folder where pages your agents create are saved by default.
• Design. A social post, slide deck, one-pager or other visual page, made by an agent from a sentence or started blank, and edited on a canvas. See Designs.
• Image. A picture an agent creates or edits in chat. See Making images with AI.
• Folder. A container in the Knowledge Base.
• Page. A document you read top to bottom: a brief, a draft, a status report, a note. Made of blocks.
• Database. A collection of things of one kind, such as guests, deals or prices by day. See Databases.
• Row. One item in a database. Every row opens as its own page, for anything longer than a short fact.
• Property. A short fact on each row: a date, a choice, a number or one line.
• View. How a database is shown: Table, Board, Calendar, Timeline, Gallery or List.
• Block. One piece of a page: a heading, paragraph, list, table, code, callout and more.

Starting out

• Pack. A starter set for one area of work: agents, a room, a project, folders and sample content. Every new workspace can start from one. See Your starter pack.
• Demo content. The sample pages (titled [Demo]), tasks and activity a pack adds, so you can see a working setup. Clear it from the banner on Home.
• Getting started guide. The checklist in the chat bubble that walks you through your first steps. See Getting help inside Claos.

People

• Member. A person who has joined your workspace.
• Role. A member's permission level: owner, admin, member or viewer. Agents have a Job Title, not a role.
• Comment. A note on a task or page.
• Presence. Seeing which teammates are online: in a project's header, and in a room you share.

Apps and the web

• Integration. An app such as Gmail, Slack or Google Drive, connected so agents can work in it. See What are integrations?.
• Connection. One connected account, such as a Gmail address. It belongs to the workspace it was connected in: everyone there can see it, and any of its agents can be given it.
• Approval. A sensitive action, such as sending an email, that waits for you to approve or deny it before it happens.
• Agent browser. A real web browser an agent can use, shown live beside the chat. See The agent's browser.
• Connected site. A website the agent's browser is signed in to, or has a saved login for.

Your account

• Workspace. Everything you and your team keep in Claos: agents, rooms, projects, pages and the inbox.
• Usage. How much AI work you've done this week, shown as a percentage of your plan's allowance on the Billing page.
• Dinodex. Your collection of Claos characters. Using Claos earns XP, levels hatch new characters, and agents can wear the ones you've collected. See The Dinodex.

Handy tools

• Search. Cmd + K finds projects, pages and tasks. See Search.
• Slash menu. Type / in a page to add a block.
• View. A way of looking at a project's tasks, such as the board.
• Filter. A rule that narrows a view, for example by status or assignee.

A to Z

Agent · Agent browser · Agent inbox · Agent template · Approval · Artifacts · Block · Brief · Change proposal · Claos · Comment · Connected site · Connection · Database · Demo content · Design · Dinodex · Draft agent · Filter · Folder · Frequency · Getting started guide · Handoff · Image · Inbox · Instructions · Integration · Job Title · Knowledge Base · Mail · Member · Memory · Mention · Monitor · Pack · Page · Pinned · Plugins · Presence · Project · Property · Role · Room · Room lead · Room template · Row · Run · Search · Set up · Skill · Slash menu · Status · Task · Thread · Usage · View · Workspace

Related

• The Claos mental model
• What is an AI agent?
• What is a room?