AI Dictionary

Tools & Frameworks

Glossary of AI concepts, explained simply

10 concepts

Tools & Frameworks

10 concepts

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Intermediate

Tools & Frameworks

State machine guardrails

State machine guardrails are rules in software that decide which tools an AI agent may use in each phase of a task, so the agent cannot skip a step.

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Beginner

Tools & Frameworks

Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic's AI assistant for programming: you describe a task in plain language, and it reads the code, edits files and runs commands to carry it out.

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Intermediate

Tools & Frameworks

Composio

Composio is a service that lets AI agents act in apps such as Gmail, Slack or GitHub on behalf of a user, while Composio stores and refreshes the logins.

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Intermediate

Tools & Frameworks

Safetensors

Safetensors is a file format for AI model weights that holds only numbers, so a downloaded model cannot run hidden code on your computer when you open it.

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Intermediate

Tools & Frameworks

Deterministic agent state machine

A deterministic agent state machine is a fixed plan of steps around an AI agent: ordinary code decides which step the agent is in and what it may do there.

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Intermediate

Tools & Frameworks

Vector database

A vector database stores texts or products as lists of numbers that capture their meaning, so a search box or AI chatbot can find what matches a question.

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Advanced

Tools & Frameworks

Programmatic tool calling

With programmatic tool calling, an AI model writes a short program that runs many lookups in your systems and hands back only the result, which saves time and cost.

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Intermediate

Tools & Frameworks

Semantic chunking

Semantic chunking cuts long documents into pieces where the topic changes, so an AI assistant that searches your documents finds whole passages to answer from.

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Intermediate

Tools & Frameworks

Agent Browser Protocol (ABP)

The Agent Browser Protocol (ABP) is a modified Chrome browser for AI agents that pauses the web page after every step, so the agent never acts on a moving page.

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Intermediate

Tools & Frameworks

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

MCP is an open standard for connecting AI assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT to your software and data, so one connector works in every AI app that supports it.