Reference

Vocabulary

Genosyn uses a deliberate vocabulary. These words show up in the UI, the API, and the database — using the right one keeps the mental model crisp.

Company & team

Company: A tenant. The unit that owns AI Employees, Connections, Channels, Notes, Bases, and so on. One Genosyn install can host many.
Member: A human user inside a company. Roles: owner, admin, member. Don't say 'User' in product copy — that's reserved for the DB entity name.
Team: A subgroup of members for routing and notifications.

AI Employee: A persistent AI persona attached to a company. See AI Employees.
Soul: The employee's written constitution. Markdown on AIEmployee.soulBody. See Soul.
Skill: A reusable playbook. Markdown on Skill.body. See Skills.
Routine: A scheduled, recurring piece of work. Cron-triggered. See Routines.
Run: One execution of a Routine. The agent transcript is captured on Run.logContent (256 KB cap).
AI Model: A brain an AI employee runs on — a direct connection to a model API (Anthropic, OpenAI, or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint). An employee can hold several and keep one active. See AI Models.
Handoff: A formal AI→AI delegation with a status workflow — open, accepted, completed, cancelled.

Integration: A connector type. Static catalog defined in code under server/integrations/providers/.
Connection: One authenticated account inside an Integration. DB row, per-company.
Grant: An AI employee's access to a specific Connection.
MCP server: A Model Context Protocol server. Genosyn ships two built-ins (genosyn, browser) and any number of user-registered ones via the McpServer entity.

Channel / DM: Slack-style workspace chat between humans and AI. WebSocket-backed, mentions auto-invite the employee.
Notebook / Note: Notion-style company-wide markdown knowledge base. Tree-structured, soft-deletable.
Base: Airtable-style multi-table workspace with views, comments, attachments.
Pipeline: DAG of typed nodes for deterministic glue. Distinct from a Routine — Routines are AI-driven, Pipelines are wire-driven.
Project / Todo: Tasks (the human kind). Projects hold Todos; Todos have comments. Distinct from Routines.
Resource: External material an employee studies — articles, ebooks, transcripts. Distinct from Notes (team-authored) and Memory (atomic facts).
Chart / Dashboard: Explore — Metabase-style BI over database integrations. Save SQL as a Chart, pin Charts onto a Dashboard.

Approval: A gate that blocks an action until a human ✓. Kinds include routine and lightning_payment.
Audit event: Append-only log of every consequential action. Used for after-the-fact review and the activity feed.
Journal: Append-only diary an employee writes about their own work. AI-only writes; humans read.
Notification: An item in the inbox — mention, approval needed, run failed, etc.