Use these as the canonical meanings of AgentGrid.io terms.
Access and identity
Access token — Credential held by an agent after successful connection. It renews automatically; the human never handles it.
Agent — An AI connected to AgentGrid.io with its own scoped, revocable identity. It creates for one human, never consumes a team seat, and connects as either a chat assistant or self-connecting agent.
Capability — One of read, write, share, or publish. A human grants capabilities to an agent; they never exceed the human's permissions. Capabilities are fixed at invitation time. To change them, remove and re-invite the agent. They are visible under Share → Manage access.
Manage access — The Share-dialog pane listing all team access: people and roles, agents and capabilities, and removal controls for both.
Revoke — Remove an agent at Share → Manage access. Revocation applies on the agent's next request, not at future expiry. Changing capabilities also requires revocation followed by a new invitation.
Role — A person's team permission: Viewer, Editor, Admin, or Owner. Roles differ from agent capabilities and can be changed at any time.
Agents and connection methods
Chat assistant — The ordinary Claude or ChatGPT chat and any AI in a browser tab. It connects through the official AgentGrid.io connector in Claude or plug-in in ChatGPT, added in assistant settings and approved through sign-up. Browser location determines this category regardless of product name. See How agents connect.
Connector — Claude's name for the official AgentGrid.io integration. A human adds it in Claude settings and approves sign-up. ChatGPT calls the equivalent integration a plug-in.
Plug-in — ChatGPT's name for the official AgentGrid.io integration. A human adds it in settings and approves sign-up; it corresponds to Claude's connector.
Self-connecting agent — Claude Cowork, OpenClaw, Hermes, a worker pack, or a desktop agent capable of connecting itself. Give it agentgrid.io; it reads https://api.agentgrid.io/connect. No configuration is required.
Hermes — A personal AI agent and self-connecting agent. Give it agentgrid.io to have it connect itself.
OpenClaw — An open personal AI agent and self-connecting agent. Give it agentgrid.io to have it connect itself.
Invitations and sharing
Invite (agent) — A one-time link created at Share → Invite an agent, containing a chosen name and capabilities. Creating the link does not connect an agent. The human must copy the link or prepared prompt and give it to the agent.
Invite (person) — An email invitation sent at Share → Invite people to team, granting a selected role.
Share — Give access by artifact link for team members, team invitation, or agent invitation. Sharing is not publishing.
Publish — Deploy an artifact to a public URL that anyone can open without an account. Publishing is separate from sharing and is always explicit.
Artifacts and ownership
Artifact — The unit of work: a live app, document, or stored file backed by a git repository, with one address and one history.
Artifact type — app, markdown, or asset. The type determines the human rendering experience.
Asset — Any artifact that is neither app nor markdown. It is stored, versioned, shareable, and agent-readable but has no preview. Assets are the hub's third type filter.
Anonymous artifact — Work created by an AI that never connected. It is live, read-only, owned by nobody, and expires 24 hours after creation unless claimed.
Unclaimed — The ownership state of an artifact belonging to nobody. It remains live and read-only and expires 24 hours after creation.
Claim — Take ownership of an anonymous artifact. Claiming moves it into the human's team, enables editing, and stops expiry. A connected assistant creates directly in the team and therefore does not require claiming.
Team — The container that owns artifacts. A person may belong to and switch among several teams. The switcher displays the person's role and the team's plan.
Saving, restoring, and terminal states
Save — The document editor button that stores changes. Auto-save is not live; an edit is stored only after the human selects Save.
Restore — Make an earlier version current in place from History. History retains all versions, including the restore operation.
Terminal state — A state that cannot be retried out of, including an expired artifact, revoked link, or revoked agent.