Glossary

This glossary defines the terms that you see in TulipFarm. Each term links to a page with more detail.

Term	What it means
Activate	Saving an agent does not turn it on. A manager turns on execution and activates the saved instructions.
Admin	A workspace role. Admins manage membership, settings, models, and table access. Admin status does not give access to other people’s chats, agents, files, or connections.
Agent	A saved artificial intelligence (AI) assistant with its own name, instructions, model, skills, and allowed actions. You share it with people and teams.
Agent task	One private piece of work that you give to an activated agent. It keeps its history, result, and credit usage. You find it under My agent tasks.
Approval	A proposed change waits until a person approves it. Approval covers exactly what was shown. It grants no extra permissions.
Approve exact batch	The button that approves a set of proposed row changes in an agent task.
Bud	Your built-in personal assistant in each workspace. It guides your first use, offers suggestions, and learns reply preferences. It is not a saved agent.
Calendar	A page that shows your Google Calendar events, scheduled agents, workflows that you follow, and pending work in one view.
Chat	A conversation with TulipFarm’s AI. Personal chats are private to you. Project chats are shared with the members of the project.
Compaction	TulipFarm shrinks the working context of a long chat so that the chat can continue. The original transcript stays readable.
Connection	An authorized link to an outside app, such as Gmail or Slack. Connecting an app is not the same as permission to read or change things.
Credits	Units that measure AI model usage. The whole workspace shares them.
Execution	An agent setting that a manager turns on. The manager then activates the saved instructions.
Files	The file library in TulipFarm. It has My files, Shared with me, Google Drive, and Trash.
Knowledge	Source material that chats and agents can search and cite. Files that you add are private to you. TulipFarm checks your access again each time.
MCP server	A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. An outside service uses it to offer tools to AI assistants. You add one as a custom MCP connection.
Member	A workspace role. Everyone who joins by invitation joins as a member.
Model	The AI model that answers. Admins choose which model families each workspace or team can use.
Outcome unknown	TulipFarm cannot tell if an action happened. Use the status or the recovery action. Do not do the action again.
Personal memory	Your saved reply preferences in one workspace. Only you see it. You find it in Account settings.
Project	A shared space for a team’s chats, files, and instructions. Only project members can open it. Its roles are Manager and Member.
Project instructions	Written guidance that applies to every chat in a project.
Project knowledge	Files that you supply for the chats in a project.
Recap	A saved summary of the decisions and unfinished work in an inactive chat.
Row	One record in a table, such as one customer.
Run	One execution of a workflow.
Skill	A reusable step-by-step procedure that an agent can follow. Skills never grant tools or permissions.
Sponsor	The person whose authority a scheduled task runs under.
Table	A business object that you define, such as Customers or Invoices, with fields.
Team	A group of members. You share access to tables, agents, and connections once per team. Teams have Managers and Members.
Unconfirmed change	Another name for an outcome unknown. TulipFarm cannot tell if the change happened.
Workflow	A reusable automation. Each execution is a run.
Workspace	Your company’s space. It holds members, teams, chats, tables, files, agents, and workflows.
Workspace URL	The permanent web address (URL) of a workspace, such as app.tulipfarm.ai/<workspace-url>. You cannot change it after you create the workspace.