Glossary

A compact reference for the terms used across these docs. Each entry uses the product’s own name, a one-line definition, and a link to where it is explained in full. For the states each entity moves through, see the lifecycle reference; for how the stages hand off, see the workflow reference.

Core entities

| Term | Definition | | --- | --- | | Idea | A request entering the pipeline; it goes through elaboration before a proposal is drafted. See Capture an idea. | | Proposal | A review container of document drafts and task drafts that materialize into real Documents and Tasks on approval. See Review a proposal. | | Task | A unit of work with a priority, an estimate, acceptance criteria, and dependencies; verified before it is done. See Run tasks and Verify and complete. | | Document | A written artifact — a PRD, spec, design, or report — materialized from a proposal’s document drafts and attached to the project. See Review a proposal. | | Reference | A link to external evidence (docs, a repository, an issue/PR, or a paper/blog) attached to an idea, proposal, or task; the URL and a note are stored, never the page itself. See Attach references. | | Project | The workspace that holds a project’s ideas, proposals, documents, and tasks. See Create a project. | | Project group | A folder that organizes related projects under one heading. See Create a project. |

Elaboration and idea shape

| Term | Definition | | --- | --- | | Acceptance criterion | A testable condition a task must satisfy to be verified. See Verify and complete. | | Elaboration round | One structured question-and-answer pass that clarifies an idea’s requirement; elaboration loops in rounds until it is resolved. See Capture an idea. | | Theme | An idea that only groups related child ideas under a shared direction; a theme cannot itself become a proposal. See Capture an idea. | | Derived (child) idea | A full idea with its own elaboration, proposal, and tasks, linked to a parent idea. See Capture an idea. |

Agents and remote work

| Term | Definition | | --- | --- | | Session / Conversation | An agent work session; the daemon chat surface shows these as conversations, one exchange per turn. See Operate the Chorus daemon. | | Daemon | A long-lived local process that keeps an agent online so it can be woken to work remotely. See Operate the Chorus daemon and Start work on a remote agent. |