# Glossary

> Reference · https://spoletta.com/docs/glossary

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

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