Glossary
The platform’s terms of art. Each row links to a short canonical definition; concept pages elaborate the substrate behind each term.
| Term | Short definition |
|---|---|
| Activity | The durable trail of typed primitives recorded for every dispatch — the canonical user-facing name (wire-name trace retained for CLI + service names). |
| Agent | A persona declaration with prompt, tool surface, model tier, and metadata that determines how the runtime invokes it. |
| Blade | An MCP plugin authored and maintained by Groupthink Dev., shipped as fully opensource code. |
| Card | A vault note representing a persistent entity — a person, an organisation, a project. |
| Chief of Staff (CoS) | The fabric-singular strategic-layer agent in Stallari’s two-slot persona model. |
| Community MCP plugin | A third-party-authored MCP server packaged into a Stallari pack and invokable from skills. |
| ContextPacket | The typed input every dispatch consumes — deterministic, scope-respecting, auditable. |
| Digest | A generated summary the platform writes into the vault, on a daily, weekly, or per-effort cadence. |
| Dispatch | The act of running a skill or workflow against the assembled context. |
| Fabric | The across-device substrate that lets one user’s instance span their own Apple devices. |
| Federation | Joining one user’s fabric to another user’s fabric — families, organisations, guilds. |
| Hebbian association | A reinforcement pattern in Stallari’s memory substrate borrowed from neuroscience. |
| Helper | The user-facing name for the macOS daemon that runs Stallari’s local logic. |
| Instance | A per-user installation of Stallari — one vault, one identity, one set of packs. |
| Lens | Stallari’s local search index for vault content — full-text and semantic. |
| Operator | A long-running role that pack authors can extend but cannot shadow. |
| Pack | A bundle of capability declared by a YAML manifest — skills, workflows, transforms, tunables, agents. |
| Personal Assistant (PA) | The task-orchestrating agent in Stallari’s two-slot persona model. |
| Pin | A user-elected item kept visible on Home — typed (memory, skill, dispatch-run, card). |
| Plugin | The general term for any MCP server the Stallari runtime can call into. |
| Precedent | A recorded judgement Stallari can read across pack boundaries — provider picks, classifications, recipients. |
| Scope | A named label the user owns, applied to data the user controls. Determines routing, capability, and consent. |
| Skill | A named piece of work the user can dispatch — a job description for an agent. |
| Stallari (vs Groupthink Dev.) | Stallari is the platform; Groupthink Dev. is the company developing it. |
| Tier | Trust posture for a pack — Sealed / Certified / Community / User / Imported. |
| Transform | A per-domain shim mapping external provider data into Stallari’s canonical contracts. |
| Tunable | A schema-driven configuration field a pack declares for user editing in the app. |
| Vault | The user’s primary content store — typically an Obsidian vault, but any folder of Markdown with frontmatter. |
| Workflow | A composed graph of skills with typed input/output contracts. |