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The docs' word, the API's name, and the internal word, side by side.
The docs use the words control shows you. The API uses the names its records carry. Engineers at Ergoly use a few more. This is the crosswalk.
| Docs | API | Internal | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company | organization | org | Your agency on Ergoly. Owns everything. |
| Worker | Worker | Worker | One Slack app, one name, one job. |
| A worker's copy | ework | posting, ework | One running copy of a worker: for one client, or for your team. |
| Your team's copy | core ework | core | The copy that serves your internal channels and holds every client's memory. |
| A client's copy | client ework | client-bound ework | The copy for one client, holding only that client's memory. |
| Client | Client | Client | A customer of yours. |
| Channel | channel | channel mapping, room | A Slack channel, mapped to a client or marked internal; also email and the web. |
| Event | — | turn trigger, dispatch | Something that happens in a channel and starts work. |
| — | — | turn | One message handled by one copy, with one reply. |
| — | — | front desk, routing | The fixed rule that sends a message to one copy. |
| Knowledge | memory | tiers | Memory and skills, as files in five tiers. |
| Company, worker, client knowledge | org, worker, client | tenant tiers | The tiers your company owns. |
| Platform knowledge | — | system tier | Ergoly's own tier, read-only, lowest precedence. |
| Skill | skill | skill | A directory with a SKILL.md, in a tier. |
| Task | task | task | Work with a requester, a holder, and a log. |
| Routine | scheduled job | scheduled task, cron | A task whose start repeats. |
| Connection | connection | vault connection | A credential or connected app, and its placement. |
| Placement | placement | placement, scope | Who may use a connection: company, worker, client, or worker for one client. |
| — | — | egress gateway | The proxy that puts a secret into an outbound request by hostname. |
| AI Admin | — | AI Admin | Your internal-only worker that sets the company up from Slack. |
| Behaviors | behaviors | behaviors | The Avoid, Don't, Prefer, and Use lines a worker follows. |
| Responsibilities | responsibilities | responsibilities | What a worker is trained for and accountable for. |
| Activity | activity | activity log | The append-only record of every write. |
| Artifact | — | artifact | A web page a worker publishes. |