Glossary¶
Core terms used across AstraDesk Framework 1.0 documentation.
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ADLC - Agent Development Lifecycle: Plan → Build → Test/Optimize → Deploy → Monitor/Operate.
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AstraOps - Observability + Evaluations tooling and dashboards that answer “Is it right?”.
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AstraCatalog - Registry of agents, tools, prompts, datasets, risk posture, and certification artifacts.
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Gateway - The control plane entrypoint for MCP tools and LLM routing with OPA, quotas, and audit.
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MCP - Model Context Protocol for tools/resources/prompts discovered and invoked by agents.
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OPA/Rego - Policy-as-code engine and language used for side-effect gating and data egress rules.
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Acceptable Agency - Explicit authority limits for an agent; guards
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Groundedness - Degree to which an answer is supported by provided context/evidence.
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Containment - % of cases resolved without human handoff (business KPI).
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SLO - Service Level Objective (e.g., latency p95 ≤ 8s, tool success ≥ 95%).
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Champion–Challenger - Controlled promotion where a new version must outperform the current one on the same evals.
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Schema Pinning - Requiring a hash of the tool schema with every call; the Gateway rejects mismatches.
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Shadow/Canary - Running a challenger on mirrored traffic (shadow) or progressively shifting live traffic (canary).
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Judge Kernel - Pluggable rubric/model that scores helpfulness, safety, groundedness for in-loop gating.
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AstraGraph Memory - Planned hybrid vector + graph memory with temporal decay and provenance (v2.0).