Glossary
The words you will see across Opser, explained in everyday terms.
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Workspace: your organization’s Opser environment, with its users, apps, records, agents, and settings.
Default agent: the personal agent created with your user account. Its access follows your permissions.
Specialist agent: an additional agent you create for a particular role or kind of work. It remains private until you share it with teammates.
Shared agent: an agent with its own identity and grants that is available to authorized teammates.
Access group: a reusable collection of permissions assigned to people or agents.
Work and capabilities
Conversation: a chat thread with an agent, including messages, questions, tool activity, and results.
Project: a way to organize related agent conversations around an ongoing effort.
Tool: an operation an agent can perform, such as reading a file or updating a record.
Skill: instructions that help an agent approach a particular kind of work.
Approval: a review point before a proposed agent action runs. It does not replace permissions.
Automation: work triggered by a supported event or schedule.
Artifact: a file or other output produced during a task, such as a workbook or slide deck.
Apps and data
App: a workspace tool with its own interface and supported data operations. You may also see the technical term “module” in operation details.
Internal app: an app used within the Opser workspace.
External app: a separate web experience, such as a site or portal, built through Opser’s external app capability.
Integration: an authorized connection to an external service or account.
Draft: work being built or reviewed before publication. A preview is not necessarily the published version.
Contract: a declared operation one app offers and another app is allowed to request.
Event: a signal that something happened, delivered to a declared subscribing workflow.
Notification: a message bringing activity to a person's attention, separate from a workflow event.
Agent workspace: the persistent filesystem belonging to one agent, used for inputs, scripts, and results across conversations.
Document standard: an organization's instructions and optional reference file for a recurring document format.
Billing
Credit: a unit of usage value. A task’s cost depends on the models and operations it uses.
Plan credits: the recurring allowance included with a workspace plan.
Extra credits: a separate balance that does not expire, used after plan credits, such as credits granted by support.