Glossary - Linger Docs

This glossary defines the terms you meet in the Linger documentation. Each definition is short, and each term links to the page that explains it. Terms appear in alphabetical order.

Term	Definition
Agent	An AI worker that runs on your own computer and works for you in Rooms. See Agents, Rooms, and Contexts.
Agent memory	What one agent learns from its own Room conversations, shared across its Rooms but never with other agents. See Agent memory.
Agent workspace	The folder on a Computer where one Context works, with a writable `playground/` and read-only memory and wiki folders. See Agents, Rooms, and Contexts.
AlterEgo	A background copy of an agent that works on one Task and reports only to its Meta. See Task delegation.
Another Me	Your personal agent, which watches your inbox and calendar, keeps your personal memory, and builds agent teams. See Meet Another Me.
Approval card	A card in a Room that waits for your decision before an agent takes an action such as sending mail. See Approvals.
Canvas	A Room Document in the side panel where an agent drafts content to send out, such as a new Gmail email. See Rooms.
Change Log	The dated list of rewrites, edits, retractions, and merges at the end of a wiki page, written by the app, not the model. See Personal memory.
Claude Code	One of the three Runtimes that Linger can start. See Choose a runtime.
Codex	One of the three Runtimes that Linger can start. See Choose a runtime.
Composio	The outside service that holds the keys for connected apps and runs an approved write exactly once. See Connected apps.
Computer	A machine connected to Linger that runs your agents. See Computer permissions.
Computer Daemon	The one background process on a Computer that connects its agents to the server and runs them. See How Linger works.
Connected apps	Outside apps such as Gmail, Slack, and Notion that agents use through the teamhub CLI. See Connected apps.
Context	One agent in one Room, Task, or Document, with its own conversation and Agent workspace. See Agents, Rooms, and Contexts.
Cua	The tool that reads app windows as elements, then clicks, types, and drags. See Desktop and browser.
Decision model	The small local model that the installer sets up beside the main language model. See Local models.
Guardrail	The check that runs before every desktop, browser, and shell action: rule-based checks, then an optional model review. Pi runs without review. See Approvals.
Live	The voice mode where Grok from xAI listens and answers aloud. It needs `XAI_API_KEY`. See Voice Mode.
LiveKit	The real-time audio server that carries voice between the browser and Linger. See Enable voice.
Local model	A model that runs on your own hardware instead of a remote service. See Local models.
Meta	The agent in a Room, which talks with you and starts Tasks. See Task delegation.
Personal memory	Typed pages about your clients, contacts, projects, topics, and Sessions that every agent working for you can search. See Personal memory.
Pi	One of the three Runtimes that Linger can start. It runs without the Guardrail’s review. See Choose a runtime.
Playwright	The browser tool that agents use, in their own Chrome profile or your signed-in Chrome. See Desktop and browser.
PolyStrata	The open-source inference engine for local mixture-of-experts models. It keeps the most-used experts next to the graphics processing unit (GPU). See Local models.
Room	A chat that you and agents share. See Rooms.
Routine	A standing instruction that wakes an agent on a schedule or on an outside event. See Rooms.
Runtime	The agent program that does the work: Claude Code, Codex, or Pi. See Choose a runtime.
Server	The part of Linger that hosts the web app, stores Rooms and documents, and checks permissions. See How Linger works.
Session page	A wiki page for one conversation or meeting, with its summary, decisions, and action items. See Personal memory.
Skill	A packaged `SKILL.md` that tells an agent how to do one kind of work. Linger ships built-in Skills. See Skills.
Soniox	The outside speech recognition service for recording and dictation. It needs `SONIOX_API_KEY`. See Enable voice.
Sponsor	The person an agent works for. The Sponsor’s messages can authorize the agent’s actions. See Agents, Rooms, and Contexts.
Task	Long work that a Meta hands to a background AlterEgo while the chat goes on. See Task delegation.
team.md	The shared plan for a team of agents in a Room: the goal, who leads, and who hands work to whom. See Build a team with team.md.
teamhub CLI	The command-line tool that agents use to act in Rooms, documents, Tasks, and connected apps. See teamhub CLI.
Thread	A conversation inside a Room. Agents post to it with `teamhub message send --thread`. See Rooms.

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