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Glossary

Terms used across this documentation, aligned for readers from different roles.

  • Agent — A packaged capability for a class of tasks or roles, combining model, instructions, skills, and tools; can be instantiated many times.
  • Template — A preset or reusable agent blueprint for quickly building similar capabilities.
  • Instance — A runnable object created from a template or configuration, with its own state (e.g. running, stopped).
  • Skill — A packaged step or domain unit that multiple agents can mount.
  • Tool — An extension for talking to external systems or channels, e.g. messaging, search, or business APIs.
  • Resource — Uploaded or connected documents and data for Q&A, screening, or RAG.
  • Task — An asynchronous or scheduled run record for tracking duration and results. The left-hand task list is used to run, pause, resume, stop, and view history.
  • Agentic assistant — The built-in general chat agent for everyday Q&A, drafting, search, analysis, and collaboration, and for guiding natural-language creation or changes to dedicated agents and related configuration.
  • Community template — A verified agent published to Create Agent and the Resource Plaza so others can select and launch it directly.
  • Public access URL — A dedicated URL or share link for a public agent. Recipients open it and start using the agent without signing in first.
  • Sleep and wake — An agent can sleep to stop conversation, then wake when needed.
  • LLM Wiki — Source materials organized into a reviewable, publishable, maintainable Wiki, not only a retrieval knowledge base.
  • OpenClaw — Module to connect Feishu, WeChat, DingTalk, and other collaboration and reach channels; what you see in the console is authoritative.
  • MCP — Model Context Protocol–style connections for extending the tool ecosystem; configuration follows product documentation.
  • Long-term memory — User-authorized preferences or stable information that can persist across sessions. Currently supported only for the Agentic assistant; other agents do not support it yet.