Glossary / Pad

Term	Meaning
Approval	A confirmation the model waits for before a tool call that changes something.
Auto	The model picker's entry that lets Pad Router choose the model and the effort for each turn.
Browser	The cloud browser a chat opens when a task needs a website; you can watch it, take over, and hand it back.
Chat	A conversation with a model, private until shared.
Connection	A tool the organization connected and shares through grants.
Credits	The unit every model call spends; each seat comes with a monthly allowance.
Disclosure window	The period in which a fact learned for a pad stays visible only to the chat that produced it.
Document	A page, file, or folder in a pad's Library.
Grant	The act of giving the organization, a group, or a person a connection.
Group	An organization-level set of people that grants pads and connections in bulk.
Holder	Someone a connection has been granted to, directly or through a group.
Library	A pad's tree of documents.
MCP server	A service that exposes tools over the Model Context Protocol; any one can become a connection.
Memory	Facts Pad learns from chats, kept per person, per pad, and per organization.
Optimization mode	Auto's one dial: Cost, Balanced, or Intelligence.
Organization	Your company's account and billing boundary.
Pad	A context container: one Library, its skills, and one memory pool, for a set of members.
Pad Router	The part of Pad that picks a model and a reasoning effort per turn when a chat is on Auto.
Personal pad	The one pad that belongs to a single person and can never be shared.
Sign-in connection	A website connection another website connection signs in with, such as Google for a site with a "Sign in with Google" button.
Skill	A versioned playbook run with a slash in a chat.
Source	A pad or connection a chat draws on.
Steer	A message sent while a turn runs; the model takes it up at its next step.
Take over	Taking the wheel of a chat's browser from the agent; Hand back returns it.
Website connection	A connection that keeps a signed-in session for a site, for the chat's browser.