Glossary

Key terms and definitions

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An AI instance that can perceive, reason, and act autonomously to accomplish tasks.

Software engineering methodology where AI Agents play a central role in design, development, testing, and operations.

An isolated execution environment for a single Agent, typically implemented as a Kubernetes Pod with dedicated resources and persistent storage.

A file that defines code ownership for automated review assignment.

A single repository containing all project code, as opposed to multiple separate repositories.

Mean Time To Resolve - average time taken to resolve production incidents.

Research & Development Operating System - a living system where AI coordinates all aspects of software development and operations.

Short for repository - a version-controlled codebase.

A reusable capability that can be invoked by Agents (e.g., data visualization, web search).

In 1000 Agent Platform context, refers to an isolated Agent execution environment (synonym for Cage).

The basic unit of text processing for LLMs. Costs are typically measured per 1K tokens.

A version control practice where developers merge small changes frequently to the main branch.