Glossary
Every Ysra term in one place — from acceptance criteria to workers — with a link to where it's explained in full.
- Acceptance criteria
- The checklist a session is reviewed against: yours, derived from your goal, or Ysra's quality baseline. Plans and criteria
- Agent (worker)
- A worker's identity and instructions, and the capabilities it may ever use. Workers
- Approval
- Your consent to one exact outside action — an email, a Slack post, a Jira change. Editing the content needs a new approval. Actions and approvals
- Autonomy policy
- What Ysra may do without asking, for your account and per repository. Autonomy policy
- Browser proof
- Interactive requirements executed in a real browser, with steps and screenshots. Review and verification
- Budget
- The spending ceiling for a session; Ysra stops before exceeding it. Start a session
- Candidate
- The complete change a session produced, against the exact revision it started from. Developer
- Checkpoint
- A saved, exact version of a session's work, used to resume and to rewind. Steering and checkpoints
- Citation
- A numbered link from a Knowledge claim to a source that was actually read. Sources and citations
- Clean-build check
- Installing, building and booting the candidate from a clean copy. Review and verification
- Deep dive
- A research-style Knowledge answer with findings, evidence and open questions. Knowledge
- Delivery
- Getting a candidate into your repository: keep, commit, push a branch, or open a pull request. Delivery and deployment
- Deployment
- Putting a candidate live on hosting you connected — a separate, explicitly authorised step. Delivery and deployment
- Expert
- A configured Knowledge coworker with a purpose, sources and capabilities. Experts
- Grant
- A capability a worker may use, such as web search or mail draft. Create a worker
- Memory
- Facts and preferences carried across Knowledge conversations, visible and deletable. Memory
- Plan
- The ordered steps of a session's work. Plan progress is not a verdict. Plans and criteria
- Playbook
- A repeatable brief that fills the Build composer. Playbooks
- Pre-existing failure
- A check that was already failing before the session changed anything. Review and verification
- Preview
- The candidate running in its own temporary environment. Previews
- Project
- A large objective planned as milestones and tasks, integrated into one candidate. Projects
- Repair
- A fix scoped to one concrete failure, starting from the exact reviewed candidate. Review and verification
- Report
- The receipt for one candidate: criteria, checks, effort and cost. Reports and sharing
- Rule
- A standing instruction every Developer session reads first. Rules and instructions
- Run
- One execution of a worker. Runs and approvals
- Session
- One goal worked to a result in one repository. Developer
- Steering
- Redirecting a running session without restarting it. Steering and checkpoints
- Unproven
- A criterion that couldn't be checked — never counted as passed or failed. Review and verification
- Wallet
- Your account's spending limit, drawn on by session budgets. Wallet and usage
- Worker
- Work that runs on a schedule or on demand, and asks before acting outside Ysra. Workers
- Workroom
- The session screen: conversation, canvas and panels. The workroom
- Workspace
- The shared space for sessions, files, experts, workers and connections. Workspaces and files