{"schemaVersion":"1","contentVersion":"2026-10-18.1","slug":"glossary","title":"Rumata, in plain language","summary":"A shared vocabulary for people building the product and developers extending it.","category":"Go deeper","minutes":6,"prerequisites":[],"sections":[{"id":"building","title":"Building blocks","blocks":[{"type":"table","headers":["Term","Meaning"],"rows":[["Project","The owner of application resources and collaboration state."],["Factory","A workspace for building and iterating inside a project."],["Application","The website or product people use, built in a factory inside a project."],["Frontend","The interface people use in a browser."],["Preview","The product under development, running in a development environment."],["Frontend Site","The published frontend product."],["Frontend Deployment","One accepted attempt to publish or replace its version."],["Development machine","The environment running development services and preview."],["Activity","A reusable backend operation a workflow can invoke."],["Workflow","A connected process made of triggers and steps."],["Trigger","The event or request that begins a workflow."]]}]},{"id":"data","title":"Data and access","blocks":[{"type":"table","headers":["Term","Meaning"],"rows":[["Database","Structured records organized in tables."],["Table / row / column","A collection, one record, and one field of a record."],["Project storage","Persistent file storage owned by a project."],["Object path","A file’s address within a storage."],["Reserved storage","Capacity committed to the storage."],["Used storage","File bytes actually occupying that capacity."],["Secret","A protected credential or value used by an authorized integration."],["Group","A way to manage access for members together."],["Account-wide permission","A grant inherited by all projects under the [billing account](/guides/billing#account)."]]}]},{"id":"usage","title":"Usage and history","blocks":[{"type":"table","headers":["Term","Meaning"],"rows":[["Billing account","Commercial owner of subscriptions, allowances, and consumption."],["Allowance","A declared amount or capacity available under the plan."],["Admission","The check that accepts work before dispatch."],["Workflow execution","One admitted top-level invocation, including its child work."],["Workflow version history","Retained earlier definitions of a workflow."],["Execution history","Retained evidence from workflow runs."],["Suspension","Stopping active compute while retaining supported recovery state."],["Recovery window","The period during which a supported recovery operation remains available."]]}]},{"id":"technical-words","title":"Common technical words","blocks":[{"type":"table","headers":["Term","Plain-language explanation"],"rows":[["API","A structured interface that software uses to communicate."],["JSON","A text format for structured fields, lists, and values."],["MCP","A protocol through which agents discover and use tools and resources."],["HTTP endpoint","An address plus request method that software calls."],["Webhook","An external service’s HTTP notification to your application."],["Cron","A compact way to express a repeating schedule."],["Synchronous","Wait for the operation’s result in the request."],["Asynchronous","Accept work now and check its result later."],["Deployment","Preparing and activating a version for its target environment."]]}]}],"technical":[],"related":["getting-started","architecture","billing","agents"],"sources":["CONTEXT.md"],"updated":"2026-09-29","audience":"general","media":[],"video":null,"url":"https://docs.rumata.dev/guides/glossary"}