Glossary
Every term the product and this documentation use, in one list.
In alphabetical order. Where a term has an ordinary meaning and a Hawi meaning, the Hawi meaning is the one given.
- Account
- A person’s sign-in and billing identity. Holds credit balances and provider authorisations.
- Agent
- A named worker with a brief, a model, a tool list, a spending ceiling and a run history.
- Automatic Purchasing
- A separate workspace permission, enabled and acknowledged by the creator. Never inherited from an autonomy setting.
- Board
- The readable surface of a workspace, holding items in columns.
- Brief
- What an agent is for, written in sentences. The highest-leverage field in the product.
- Ceiling
- The spending limit an agent works inside. A new agent’s ceiling is nothing.
- Connection
- An authorised link to one external system, held against an account and selected by a workspace.
- Connector
- The definition of how Hawi talks to one provider. 202 connectors across 33 categories are listed.
- Cover
- How long current stock will last at the rate it is selling, in whole days, rounded down.
- Credit
- The unit of metered work. Consumed by model calls, tool calls and voice minutes.
- Entitlement
- A capability a plan carries, resolved server-side from account entitlements and workspace membership.
- Handoff
- Moving an item to another owner, carrying the item, the evidence and the run history.
- Item
- One piece of work on a board, with a source, a status, an owner and a history.
- Queue priority
- How a plan’s runs are scheduled under load. Not a measure of model speed.
- Registry key
- A connector’s identifier, such as
amazon_seller. What appears in traces and error messages. - Run
- One attempt by one agent at one item, recorded with inputs, tool calls, handoffs, cost and outcome.
- Scope
- In connections, the read and write access a connector grants. In the API, what a key may do.
- Trace
- The full record of a run. Continuous across handoffs.
- Workspace
- The operational boundary. Agents, boards, connections and members live inside one.