Reference

Glossary

The words this manual uses, each with the page that explains it.

Term	Meaning
Aggregation	A structural link: an object consists of parts.
Agent link	A person object taken by a human process: that person carries it out.
Attribute	A named field of an object, with a definition agents follow.
Board	The canvas a flow is drawn on; a flow process has one of its own.
Branch	A run's git branch, which its agents and scripts work on.
Change request	A reviewer's instructions and the reviewed work, given to the process that revises it.
Condition	A link from a state: run only if the object is in it, and be skipped otherwise.
Consumption	A link that uses the object up: once taken, it is gone.
Copy	An object that follows a struct or a procedure's object, changing only with its source.
Cursor	A stored object a flow carries from run to run, such as when it last fetched.
Decision	An agent or a person setting the state of an object.
Duplicate	A step that generated a unique value another run already stored; its run ends terminated.
Effect	A process that takes and yields the same object, changing it.
End	The node marking what a flow leaves; a procedure's outcomes.
Entry	A human process that has a person fill an object in.
Event	A link from a state: the object entering it triggers the process.
Exhibition	A structural link: an object exhibits an attribute.
Flow	Something your team does, drawn so it can be run.
Flow process	A process made of a board of processes of its own.
Follow-up	A message sent to a finished agent step, continuing its session.
Generalization	A structural link: an object is a kind of another.
Instrument	A link to an object the process needs but does not change.
List	An object holding several items, as a JSON array.
MCP server	A server of tools an agent may use, connected per person.
Object	Something that exists, holding JSON; drawn with square corners.
OPL	The Object-Process Language: the board written as sentences.
OPM	The Object-Process Methodology, ISO 19450: the language flows are drawn in.
Pass	A sweep of a run in which each process runs at most once.
Person	An object standing for who carries out human processes; its name is a role.
Procedure	A flow other flows run as a step, as a run of its own.
Process	Something that happens: a step, drawn rounded.
Quorum	Needs: run once this many inputs exist, rather than all of them.
Query	An input link that takes the records earlier runs stored of an object, not the object in this run.
Recording	A flow process whose every run, per item, is a run of its own.
Records	What a stored or shared object keeps from runs that ended done; a shared struct keeps one set for every flow.
Re-run	A new run from one process of an ended run, with what came before copied.
Review	A process that takes an object and decides its state, leaving its content.
Role	Permission to decide the reviews a person object of that name handles.
Rounds	How often an agent reviewer may send work back before that fails it.
Rule	A condition on an object's fields saying when it is in a state.
Run	One execution of a flow.
Schedule	A cron expression and time zone that start runs on their own.
Shared	A struct whose copies, in every flow, read and write the same records.
Start	The node a run begins at, pointing at the first process.
State	A situation an object can be in; states route the flow.
Step	One process carried out once in a run.
Struct	A single object defined once for many flows to use.
Subflow	A procedure process: a step that runs a procedure.
Unique	An attribute no two stored instances may share, used to skip work already done.
Version	A saved snapshot of a flow's whole board.
Workspace	A run's checkouts of the flow's repositories, on its own branch.