Glossary

Backend — a specific agent tool a seat drives: one of claude-code, codex, qwen-code, droid, agent-loop (the product's own loop) or openai-compat (a local model behind a lane). The full list is Supported agents. Board — the persisted, exportable account of the fleet's work: events and gate history. Bridge — a project's command deck: orders, decisions, board, conventions — the durable documents the fleet works from. Cap — the per-run spending limit, derived as 2× the quote; enforced by the vendor where the backend supports it and compared after the run where it does not. Channel files — the gitignored per-worktree wire between roles: _EXEC_ORDER.md (master → executor, with a mandatory REASON; _REVIEW_ORDER.md for a review leg), _EXEC_STATUS.md (executor → master: started-ack, blocked-on, and the stop-2-ready close gate), _REVIEW_STATUS.md (the review role's one file). CLOSE-OK — the executor's close signal: one line carrying the return's identity (stream, commit, branch, worktree), valid only with the persisted status file behind it. Executor — the agent implementing one stream's scope inside its own worktree. Gate — one recorded human decision on one stream; the only way a stream advances past a decision point. Headroom — the pre-dispatch capacity probe: where the fleet has room for one more run of a given model. A report, never a dispatch. Lane — a named model endpoint in configuration: URL plus the name of its credential variable. Mailbox — the insert-only channel for owner directives to running work; the daemon delivers, the mailbox never dispatches. Master — the planning and coordination role: writes dispatch material, owns worktree lifecycle, adjudicates returns; never implements, never merges. Order — the written specification a stream runs against: scope, confinement, collisions, test plan, DoD, budget, assumptions. Projection — any view computed from the record (CLI, console, VS Code tree, export, MCP). Never a source of state. Quote — the expected per-run cost, recorded at dispatch so drift is measurable. Record — the durable account of everything that happened: gates, runs, costs, refusals, observed git facts. The single source every projection reads. Review — the independent evaluation of an executor's return; a recommendation, recorded as judgment, never the decision itself. Seat — a named executor identity on one machine slot, with its own isolated agent profile. STOP-1 / STOP-2 — the two structured stops in a stream's life: the plan (before implementation) and the proof (after it), each gated by a human. Stream — the unit of work: one scoped task, one branch, one worktree, one lifecycle. Teardown — the recorded act of closing a merged stream's workspace, with every return artifact's fate dispositioned. Wave — a set of related streams viewed together: branch → base → gate → merge.