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Agent
Category: Agents
Pronounced AY-jent
An AI worker that has a specific job to do.
Agent Handoff
Category: Agents
Pronounced AY-jent HAND-off
Passing a job — with its notes and context — from one agent to another, or to a person, without losing the thread.
Agent Loop
Category: Agents
Pronounced AY-jent loop
The repeating cycle an agent runs: look at the situation, decide one action, do it, check the result, and go again.
Agent Planning
Category: Agents
Pronounced AY-jent PLAN-ing
The step where an AI decides the order of its actions before it starts working, and updates that order as things change.
Agentic AI
Category: Agents
Pronounced ay-JEN-tik A-I
AI that can take a goal, decide the steps on its own, and carry them out instead of only answering one question at a time.
Agentic Construction Workflow
Category: NobleHub
Pronounced ay-JEN-tik kun-STRUK-shun WERK-floh
Using AI agents to carry a real trade task from start to finish, not just to answer questions about it.
Agentic Workflow
Category: Agents
Pronounced ay-JEN-tik WURK-flow
A repeatable chain of steps an AI agent runs end to end, where each step's result decides what it does next.
AI Governance
Category: Infrastructure
Pronounced A-I GUV-ern-ance
The written rules for who may use AI at your organization, for what, and who is accountable when it goes wrong.
AI Memory
Category: Fundamentals
Pronounced A-I MEM-uh-ree
The information an AI tool keeps about you or your work so it doesn't start from zero every time.
Algorithm
Category: Fundamentals
Pronounced AL-go-rith-um
A list of steps that tells a computer how to solve a problem.
API
Category: Infrastructure
Pronounced A-P-I
A doorway that lets two pieces of software talk to each other.
API Endpoint
Category: Infrastructure
Pronounced A-P-I END-point
One specific address in an API that does one specific job, like listing customers or creating an invoice.
API Key
Category: Infrastructure
Pronounced A-P-I KEE
A secret string of characters that proves which account is making a request, so a service knows who to trust and bill.
Audit Log
Category: Infrastructure
Pronounced AW-dit LOG
A tamper-resistant record of who did what, when, and to which record — including actions taken by an AI.
Automation
Category: Infrastructure
Pronounced aw-toh-MAY-shun
Setting up work so it happens by itself, without someone doing it each time.
Autonomous Agent
Category: Agents
Pronounced aw-TON-oh-mus AY-jent
An AI agent that can complete tasks on its own within rules you give it.
Autonomy Level
Category: Agents
Pronounced aw-TON-uh-mee LEV-ul
How much an AI is allowed to decide and do on its own before a person has to approve the next move.
Benchmark
Category: Fundamentals
Pronounced BENCH-mark
A standard test used to compare how well different AI models perform on the same task.
Bias
Category: Data
Pronounced BYE-uss
When an AI's answers unfairly favor one group or view because the data it learned from leaned that way.
Calibration
Category: Fundamentals
Pronounced kal-ih-BRAY-shun
Adjusting an AI system so its answers become more accurate and reliable.
Change Order Loop
Category: NobleHub
Pronounced CHAYNJ OR-der LOOP
The full round trip of a scope change: field request, priced draft, customer approval, schedule update, and invoice — with nothing skipped.
Client Portal Mirror
Category: NobleHub
Pronounced KLY-ent POR-tul MEER-or
The customer-facing view that shows the same job facts the internal team sees, minus anything private like margins.
Closed-Loop Feedback Engine
Category: NobleHub
Pronounced KLOHZD-loop FEED-bak EN-jin
A seven-stage cycle — detect, classify, recommend, assign, execute, verify, learn — that lets a system get better at its own job over time.
Context Window
Category: Models
Pronounced KON-text WIN-doh
How much information an AI can hold in mind at one time.