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Glossary

Agents

Agents

Specialist assistants are designed to accelerate your team's work. They automate repetitive tasks, interpret the context of your projects, and help generate more accurate responses, reducing manual effort and increasing daily productivity.

API Agents

Agents that can be accessed directly via API, allowing other systems to leverage the intelligence created in StackSpot. This simplifies integrations, automates complex workflows, and expands what your team can achieve with AI.

API

It is an interface that allows different systems to communicate and automate tasks.

LLM / Models

Large Language Model (LLM) or Language Models. These are AIs responsible for generating response such as GPT-4, Claude, Gemini for text understanding and task generation.

Organization Key

A unique key that identifies an organization and enables integrations and API calls.

Authentication

Secrets / Bearer / API Key / Header

Credentials and sensitive information required to authenticate and access APIs or protected services. Includes Bearer tokens, API Keys, and values sent in HTTP Headers.

Secrets

Secrets are sensitive pieces of information used for authentication or authorization in systems and applications. Passwords, access tokens, API keys, and certificates are all examples of Secrets.

In StackSpot, Secrets are securely stored and can be used in pipelines, applications, and integrations to ensure confidential data is not exposed in source code.

Bearer

Bearer is a type of authentication token used in the OAuth 2.0 standard. This token is used for authentication via HTTP requests and must be sent in the Header.

API Key

A unique key used to identify and authenticate applications accessing an API.

It is part of the HTTP request used to send additional information between the client (the requester) and the server (the responder). It is used to transmit data such as content type, authentication, cookies, language, among others.

SSO / AD / SAML / Open ID / Single Sign-on

Authentication technologies that enable secure corporate single sign-on.

  • SSO – Single Sign-On: Access multiple systems using a single login.
  • AD – Active Directory: Manages user identities and permissions.
  • SAML – Security Assertion Markup Language: Standard for securely exchanging authentication information between systems.
  • Open ID – OpenID Connect (OIDC): Modern authentication protocol based on OAuth 2.0.

Extensions

Extension

A plugin installed in an IDE to access StackSpot AI resources directly from the development environment.

IDE

It is an Integrated Development Environment, such as VS Code, used to edit and test code, where the StackSpot AI Extension can be installed.

Indexing

The process that prepares your projects so the AI can locate, interpret, and use this content as context within the IDE.

Knowledge Sources

It is an advanced search that identifies the most relevant Knowledge Objects and sends them to the AI model as additional context.

Knowledge Sources (KS)

Knowledge sources that enrich the responses of Agents and Quick Commands. They may include documentation, code, rules, and examples.

Knowledge Objects

Units of information within a Knowledge Source. These can be articles, code snippets, documents, etc.

General

Embedding

A numerical representation of text used to identify similarities and compare content.

Freemium

A free model with limited access, with the possibility to unlock advanced features through a paid plan.

Jinja

A template language used to interpolate variables and conditions in automations and Quick Commands.

Jinja Interpolation

Jinja interpolation is the process of replacing variables with Jinja expressions for their actual values during the rendering of the file that contains the expressions, turning it into a template. In practice, you use delimiters like {{ ... }} around the variable (or any string) to insert dynamic values into text files, code, or configurations. This way, you can manipulate input values from Plugins, Actions, and Workflows for any project you create in StackSpot.

Prompt Engineering

The practice of creating and optimizing text prompts to obtain better responses and results from AI models.

SCM

Tools and processes for source code management, such as GitHub and GitLab, integrable with StackSpot AI.

Spots

Organized environments within StackSpot AI that gather content, Agents, and configurations. They help standardize processes, reduce duplication, and centralize everything needed to build with AI in a secure and scalable way.

Stack AI

A set of configurations that brings your projects’ technical context to the AI model. This makes generated responses more aligned with your actual code, avoiding rework, reducing errors, and accelerating delivery.

Tokens

Units of measurement for text processed by the AI model. Each word or character counts as one or more tokens, used to calculate costs and usage limits.

Quick Commands

Quick Command

A Quick Command acts as an agentic workflow, created and configured to automate specific tasks or flows. It can be executed via Portal, IDE, or API.

Remote Quick Command (RQC)

A Quick Command executed remotely, usually via API, enabling automations triggered outside the Portal or IDE.