Glossary

Glueprint uses a small set of nouns consistently across every surface. Learning these once saves time everywhere.

Core concepts

Account — your organization on Glueprint. Holds your plan, seats, hosts, billing, and audit log. One account can have many users.

Agent — the underlying AI coding tool that does the work: Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI. Glueprint runs them as external processes; it does not ship its own model.

Assistant — a named, persistent AI teammate inside Glueprint. An assistant has a persona, a constitution, memory, a chat channel, and a queue of tasks. The same assistant can spawn many sessions over time and pick up where it left off. See AI Assistants.

Channel — the chat surface attached to an assistant or to a team. Channels are append-only conversation logs. You can write into a channel; the assistant or team members can respond.

Constitution — the long-form rules an assistant follows, in plain English. The effective constitution is composed of layers (organization + host + team + the assistant’s own), concatenated when the assistant wakes.

Host — a machine where Glueprint is installed and activated. A laptop is one host; a server running the CLI daemon is another. Your plan caps how many hosts an account can have.

Persona — the personality, voice, and role an assistant plays, in plain English. Separate from the constitution; together they define how the assistant behaves.

Plan — your subscription tier (Free, Pro, Team, Enterprise). The plan sets limits on hosts, seats, teams, and which features are available. See Plans.

Project — a folder on your machine that you’ve registered with Glueprint. Projects group sessions and boards together by working directory.

Routine — an instruction that wakes an assistant on a schedule (every hour, every weekday at 9 a.m., and so on). See Routines.

Seat — one human user on your account. Plans cap the number of seats; you can add extra seats for an extra monthly fee.

Session — one running conversation between you (or an assistant) and an agent, inside a working directory. See Sessions.

Task — a unit of work tracked on a board. Tasks have status, assignee, and (optionally) due dates. Tasks are not sessions; a task can spawn sessions to get the work done.

Task Flow Definition — the state machine that governs how tasks move between columns on a team board, and which roles are allowed to make which transitions. Abbreviated TFD.

Team — a group of assistants (and humans) working together with a shared channel, a shared board, and a TFD. Cross-host: assistants on different machines can be on the same team.

Tenant — another word for account. You’ll see “tenant admin” in places where the system separates people who can change organization settings from people who only use the product.

Work item — the underlying object stored for a session. Most users only ever say “session.” The two words refer to the same thing.

Working directory — the folder a session is rooted in. Often a git repository.

Surfaces

Desktop app — the native app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Where most users spend most of their time.

Web portal — portal.glueprint.ai. A browser view onto everything the desktop is doing, plus the admin surfaces (billing, SSO, audit log).

Mobile app — the iOS and Android app. A full Glueprint client that gives you almost the same access as the portal: live sessions, transcripts, approvals, chat, tasks, routines, the file browser, and a terminal. The built-in code editor, the visual workflow canvas, and the assistant workbench live on desktop and portal only.

CLI daemon — Glueprint as a headless service on a server. Same engine as the desktop; no graphical interface. Use it when you want sessions to run 24/7 on a machine you don’t keep logged in.

Plumbing terms (good to know but not central)

Cloud relay — the service that routes events between your hosts and your other surfaces. The relay sees only encrypted content; it can’t read your session transcripts.

End-to-end encryption — your data is encrypted on the device that produces it (your laptop, your server) and decrypted only on devices that hold your account keys. See Cloud Relay & Encryption.

Host visibility — whether a given user on your account can see what’s happening on a given host. Set by your administrator under hosts and roles.

Next step

Continue to Choose your surfaces for guidance on which apps to install.