Glossary

The basic terms cover everyday work. The advanced section explains administration, development and change approval.

Basic terms

Lazurio A shared work environment for people and AI agents. It helps you find applications, work, and the information you need.

Environment The place where agents work for you. Hosted Environments have three kinds: Personal, Work and Team.

Personal Environment Your Environment with Buddy and a Personal Workspace.

Work Environment An Organization Environment assigned to a particular user. It may run automations; these do not create a separate fourth kind.

Team Environment An Environment shared by Team members. Every authorized member can use its connected accounts, so connect team accounts there.

Your computer Your own device running Lazurio locally. It is not a fourth kind of hosted Environment.

Apps (called Launchpad in older sources) The part of Lazurio where you open Organization applications. Within an Environment, switch between Chat, Apps and Automate.

Chat The part of an Environment where you work with agents, one thread per task. In an Environment it is T3 Code.

Automate The part of an Environment for regular tasks and automation.

Getting started The first section of an Environment’s Settings. It shows the steps that make the Environment ready for work: AI, GitHub and the Organization’s content, in this order.

Guide Practical help for Lazurio. When you are unsure what something means or how to continue, start here.

GitHub The service that hosts repositories and manages their permissions. It determines which repositories you can read or change. Your AI provider account and subscription are separate.

AI subscription Your provider’s plan determines available models and usage limits. It is separate from GitHub repository permissions.

Tokens Units used to measure AI usage. They are consumed when reading requests and generating responses; they are not passwords or access keys.

Organization A separate workspace for one company. It has its own people, applications, data, and access.

Team A group of people who work together in a specific area, such as sales or product.

Workspace The part of an Organization that contains applications for day-to-day work.

Module One area of your work, such as orders, the website or recipes. It keeps together the process agents follow, the data the work is about, and the app in which you see and change it. Mission Control and Knowledgebase are modules. See Modules.

Marketplace The place at the bottom of Apps for module templates. A template is added to your Organization as your own private copy. From version 0.1.21, a release candidate on 5 November 2026, it offers the templates of Lazurio’s public registry.

Mission Control The place for managing work. It shows what is being addressed, who is responsible, and what should happen next.

Knowledgebase A shared company notebook with procedures and context for future work. An agent can use an entry if it has access and loads it. Chat content is not saved there automatically.

Integration An app or service connected to an Environment, such as mail or a calendar. You connect it yourself in Apps → Integrations; every agent of that Environment can then use it. Sending or publishing through it still needs your consent.

Personal Workspace Your private working content in a Personal Environment. It serves you and your Buddy, rather than the Organization. Older technical sources call it Personalspace.

Colleague (Kolega) A user in an Organization. Their roles and Teams decide what they may do.

AI Colleague An older name for a long-running AI role. Current documentation describes automation as agents working in a Work Environment with a responsible user. A role name grants no permissions by itself.

Henry The name of an Organization’s Work Environment with automations. A team of bots works in it under the Organization’s persona, and one responsible user answers for it. It is not a separate kind of Environment.

Buddy The name of Lazurio’s personal product and of your personal AI representative. Buddy belongs to your Personal Environment and acts only within your rights and the mandates you give. Billing, secrets, access changes, and a merge or publication outside an explicit mandate always need your consent to that exact step.

Prompt A request you write for AI. For example: “Prepare an overview of unpaid invoices and explain what I should address first.”

Start Turn an application on so it can be used.

Open Go to the selected application. If it is not running yet, Launchpad may start it first.

Stop Turn off a locally running application. This does not delete its data.

Sync Load the current state of projects and applications so you work with the latest changes.

Advanced terms

User The person agents work for, who has the final say. The bare word user names no role. When someone is to be made an “admin” or a “user”, say whether the Organization or which application is meant.

Role A named access of a person at one level: in the Organization, in a module, in an application or in an Environment. It is written with a capital initial and always names its level, such as Organization Admin or Application User. A role name authorizes nothing by itself; actual access decides.

Organization Owner Owns the GitHub Organization in which the Organization lives (GitHub’s owner role). Appoints and removes Organization Admins. Gets no access to Environments by that alone.

Organization Admin Manages the Organization’s members, Teams, access and Environments; this does not grant access to another person’s Personalspace. It is a role of Lazurio that an Organization Owner appoints (not yet deployed); until it is deployed, an active Organization Owner is the Organization Admin.

Organization Member Every other person in the Organization. What they may do follows from their roles in modules and applications. As the target, membership in Lazurio decides, which needs no GitHub account; for now, live membership of the GitHub Organization decides.

Module Reader Reads a module’s source code and changes nothing. GitHub’s pull permission. This role by itself gives no role in the module’s application.

Module Contributor Builds the module and proposes changes. GitHub’s push permission on a repository that can have branch rules.

Module Maintainer May also merge the module’s protected main and release it. GitHub’s maintain permission, or push where the repository cannot have branch rules.

Module access The setting that holds a person’s or a Team’s role in a module. It is not a role itself. Whoever has no role in a module has no access to it.

Application Admin A role in a module’s application, decided and not yet deployed (decision 0231). What it may do is the Organization’s rule in the module’s code. Without any setting, the Application Admins are the Module Contributors, the Module Maintainers, the Organization Admin and whoever has the whole Environment where the application runs.

Application User The other role in a module’s application, also not yet deployed. What it may do is also the Organization’s rule in the module’s code.

Assigned User The person a Work Environment is assigned to.

Service entry Entry to an Environment for someone other than its Assigned User. It is not a role. As decided and not yet deployed (decision 0228), the Organization Admin will have service entry to every Environment of their Organization; anyone else only when it is granted for one Environment.

Persona An Organization’s agent account, such as Henry’s. It never names a person’s role.

Principal A term for the responsible identity in older Lazurio sources. Current copy uses “user” for the person who assigns work and has the final say.

Task Agent An AI tool session for a particular task. It has no permissions of its own; it uses access available in the Environment and follows the user’s instructions.

Skill A saved guide for an agent doing a particular kind of work, such as preparing a presentation or reviewing changes. It may contain instructions, templates and scripts. You still need to check the result.

MCP server A connection through which AI can use a specific tool or work with its data, such as GitHub. It does not grant AI extra permission — it uses only the access available on that Machine.

Guardian In older sources, a designated person who helps with recovery or a service intervention for an AI Colleague. This does not grant general access.

Draft Work in progress that is not official yet. You can review, change, or discard it.

Publication The moment a Draft becomes official or visible to others, such as merging a pull request or sending an email or a message. An agent publishes only with the explicit approval of the user, whose live rights decide what may be published.

Handoff How an agent ends a piece of work: the link to it, what Publication would introduce, what the agent verified and the question who publishes it.

Release An official, labeled version of a product or application, such as a new version for customers.

Pull request (PR) A proposed set of changes awaiting review and approval before it enters the official version.

Draft pull request A pull request that is still in progress. GitHub does not let anyone merge it until it is marked ready for review. Agents in Lazurio open one as soon as they start a change.

Review A check of a pull request by someone other than its author before it is merged. On a protected branch, GitHub can require an approving review.

Main The project’s primary, currently valid version. Work in progress enters it only after the required checks.

Worktree A separate working copy of a project. An Agent or developer can safely prepare changes there without affecting the main version.

Productionspace The technical part of an Organization for source code and systems that are not ordinary work applications.

Folder (Lazurio Folder) The folder in an Environment where Lazurio keeps the agents’ instructions, manuals and skills, next to your Organizations. Every new Chat thread starts there. Lazurio generates these files, so a change made in them by hand blocks Lazurio’s updates of them.

Bun A technical tool used to install, run, and test applications. If you are not a developer, you usually do not need to use it directly.

Machine A device or isolated work environment in which Lazurio runs. It also forms a boundary for security, access, and recovery.

Access Actual permission to view or change something. GitHub determines repository permissions. A role name alone grants no access.

These names follow the public Lazurio decisions, especially 0170 and 0207 with their addenda, 0169 for Henry and 0089 for Buddy. Decision 0234 sets the names of roles; the earlier names Builder, Steward and User no longer name roles. A particular installation may still show older labels; technical names and commands stay unchanged. The onboarding course uses these terms step by step.