Glossary

A reference for the vocabulary used throughout the Cendriix documentation. Each term links to the guide where it is covered in depth.

Terms

Agent

An autonomous, LLM-powered worker that performs one class of task within a run. Configured with a model, prompt, tool list, and budget.

Approval gate

A workflow step that pauses a run until a human with the required role approves or rejects continuation.

Audit event

An immutable, hash-chained record of a significant action. Every tool call, verdict, and approval becomes one.

BYO-cloud

Bring-your-own-cloud. Cendriix deploys into your cloud account via a cross-account role; you keep ownership of compute and data.

Connector

A stored, authenticated link between a workspace and an external system such as AWS, GitHub, Jira, or Slack.

Cost meter

Real-time tracking of a run’s spend, broken down by agent, tool, and model, with optional pre-commit cost caps.

Guardrail

A policy rule that constrains agent behaviour, blocking a tool, requiring approval, or capping spend.

Hash chain

The cryptographic linkage between audit events that makes the log tamper-evident.

MCP

Modular Capability Provider, the plugin layer that exposes a typed toolset to agents.

Need

A unit of work filed against Cendriix, a ticket or request that the orchestrator turns into a run.

Orchestrator

The runtime that resolves a workflow, schedules agent steps, evaluates policies, and records the audit trail.

Policy

A named, versioned set of guardrail rules evaluated before every tool call.

Run

A single, bounded execution of a workflow with a unique ID, a lifecycle, and a complete audit trail.

Skill

A reusable, parameterised sub-task an agent invokes as one atomic action, often wrapping many tool calls.

Synthetic run

A replay of a past run. Marked distinctly and never produces audit events mistakable for real activity.

Time travel

Deterministic replay of a past run from its recorded snapshot, for debugging, audit, and policy testing.

Workflow

A versioned, directed graph of agent steps, branches, and approval gates that defines a run’s lifecycle.

Workspace

The unit of multi-tenant isolation. Holds members, connectors, workflows, policies, and runs.