Glossary

The Olbrain Studio vocabulary.

Plain definitions of the terms used across the platform. For how they fit together, see the concepts.

Olbrain Studio
The operating system for enterprise AI agents — one platform to build, run, and govern an enterprise’s entire AI agent fleet.
Alchemist
The master orchestrator inside Studio: an AI agent that builds and runs the fleet, directing a fleet of specialist sub-agents through discovery, build, deployment, governance, and observability.
Agency Protocol
Olbrain’s mechanism for giving each agent a persistent, governable identity — one accountable, exclusive actor — so its decisions are attributable and the enterprise can answer for them.
Agent identity
A persistent operational self for an agent: who it is and that it stays the same actor across runs. Distinct from access-control identity, which governs only what an agent may access.
Agent brain
The definition of an agent — identity, tools, knowledge, channels, guardrails — that compiles into a deployable system prompt and runtime configuration. Versioned and immutable on publish.
BRD
A business-requirements document produced during discovery; the agent brain is generated from it.
Workflow
A directed graph built from typed step executors that an agent runs; steps fan out per item and aggregate. Studio ships 37+ typed step executors.
Tool · MCP
A capability an agent calls to act in the world, implemented as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool server.
Connector
An integration into an enterprise system or API an agent uses to access data and take action.
Knowledge
Enterprise data — documents and systems — that grounds an agent’s answers and actions.
Trigger
An event that starts an agent or workflow: a conversation, another agent, an external event, or a schedule.
Runtime
The execution mode for an agent. Three are live: conversational, workflow, and research.
Agent types
The five kinds of agent: Concierge (conversational), Operator (workflow), Analyst (research), Orchestrator (coordination), Copilot (assistive). See capabilities.
Vibe Mode
Agents that author agents: the layer where Alchemist and its specialists do the discovery, requirements, build, and instrumentation. Live since 3 June 2026.
Context Service
Olbrain’s persistent, judge-gated agent memory — append-only, scoped global → agent → session.
CS-packet
The Cognitive Substrate packet: an agent’s context, memory, history, and bindings compressed into one packet that travels with each query to the model. Also the unit usage is metered in.
Audit log · receipt
An immutable, append-only record of every agent action; each action emits a signed, PII-free receipt.
Audit packet
An on-demand record of an agent action — produced by Lumen by replaying it — for InfoSec, Risk, or a regulator.
Lumen
The observability specialist that replays any agent action and generates audit packets on demand, at admin.olbrain.com.
CoF · Core Objective Function
An agent’s declared purpose, bound at creation, that orients its behavior and stays stable over time — a first-class primitive.