Glossary

Document status: SPEC

Term	Meaning in HUE
HUE	The personal workspace, product and control surface—not one omniscient context and not an individual temporary worker.
Space	Common context, knowledge, source, memory and permission boundary implemented as a Project or Area.
Project	A Space pursuing a finishable outcome; it may bind repositories, milestones and external delivery state.
Area	A Space representing an ongoing responsibility such as Health, Parenting or Finances.
Resource	Reusable reference (person, book, template, library, archive) related to Spaces explicitly rather than by global implicit access.
Resource root	A validated folder/repository/collection a Space may access.
Session	Independent Space-bound discussion, execution, research, monitoring or review context.
Conversation	The branching user/HUE message stream inside a Session. It may originate tasks but is not itself a task log.
Task	A durable desired outcome with lifecycle across one or more execution attempts.
Run	One execution attempt for a task.
Plan	A versioned graph of steps, dependencies, outcomes and verification criteria.
Step	One plan node with a defined observable outcome.
Worker	A temporary specialist execution context created for a run/step.
Worker class	An allowlisted capability template such as researcher, developer or reviewer.
Runtime adapter	Bridge from HUE’s worker lifecycle contract to Hermes, OpenCode, Codex, Claude Code or another engine. Backend-native Sessions are not canonical HUE Sessions.
Capability request	Provider-neutral statement of quality, domain, latency, privacy, context and tool needs.
Route	Resolved runtime/provider/model/effort/fallback configuration for a worker.
Tool	A bounded deterministic or agent-operated capability with declared risk and schemas.
Grant	Scoped, expiring authorization for a subject to invoke a capability on resources.
Approval	Human decision that creates or denies a grant at a policy boundary.
Artifact	Durable output/evidence such as a file, diff, report, recording, citation bundle or test result.
Event	Immutable semantic record in a run’s history.
Context manifest	Exact ordered set of sources, versions, policy and omissions supplied to a turn/worker.
Context pack	Human-readable maintained files/notes providing a Space’s goals, current state, decisions, active work, sources and operating rules.
Knowledge item	Portable maintained note/file relationship with backlinks, tags, version and epistemic provenance.
Source binding	Explicit ownership/sync contract connecting a Space to GitHub, Calendar, email, files or another authoritative system.
Global memory	Curated stable user preferences/identity facts allowed across Spaces.
Space memory	Curated current state/facts/decisions available only in one Project or Area.
Source memory	Freshness-aware facts retrieved from an authoritative source with native provenance.
Session memory	Messages, branches, summaries and decisions for one Session; not automatically durable Space memory.
Episodic archive	Searchable closed Sessions and completed work that are not injected by default.
Run state	Operational plan/events/results/checkpoints; not automatically semantic memory.
Outcome bundle	Completion summary plus routes, changes, artifacts, evidence, approvals and open risks.
Unknown outcome	A run state where external effects may have occurred and must be reconciled before retry.
Deterministic job	Normal program/tool execution used instead of an LLM worker when appropriate.
Computer use	Accessibility/vision-based operation of native GUI applications under scoped policy.
TBI	Accepted target behavior that remains to be implemented.
TBD	Material decision still open.
SPEC	Reviewable documentation exists; does not imply implementation.
POC	Disposable experiment answering a named decision.
Verified	Behavior passed its documented evidence gates.