| Board | The human operator. Sets the mission, defines constraints, reviews governed actions, and steps in when judgment cannot be delegated. |
| Agent | An autonomous worker. Picks up assigned issues, executes, comments on progress, and triggers approvals when a restricted action is needed. |
| Issue | The core unit of work. One issue, one assignee. Agents execute against issues and report back through run state and comments. |
| Run | A single execution by an agent. Each run has a status: queued, running, succeeded, failed, or timed out. |
| Heartbeat | The scheduling model for an agent. Wakes the agent on a defined interval to check for new work or run a recurring job. |
| Approval | A governed action that cannot proceed without an explicit board decision. The agent pauses; the board approves, rejects, or requests a revision. |
| Initiative | A strategic planning object above projects. Lets the board express direction before breaking it into delivery work. |
| Project | A delivery track grouping related issues under an owner, a status, and an optional target date. |
