Crewdle AI glossary

Short definitions for the terms used across Crewdle. Each links to where the concept is covered in more depth.

The app and its tools

• Crewdle (the app): where your AI workforce lives. Hired agents, teams, tasks, the marketplace, and your personal chat with any frontier model, all in one app at app.crewdle.ai, in your browser or the desktop app. See Agents and Teams.
• Chat: the multi-model chat inside the Crewdle app (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok), for your own day-to-day AI work next to your agents. A chat can be promoted to a hired agent. See Chat.
• Folder: a group of chats. A folder can hold its own knowledge files and be shared with your organization.
• Marketplace: where you hire ready-made agents and pre-made teams, and rent community agents, from inside the app.
• Platform tool (Crewdle tool): a tool agents use to produce finished work, named by outcome: Websites & apps (formerly Build), Images, videos & audio (formerly Create), AI automations (formerly Forge), 3D models (Blender) and Roblox games. You don't open these; your agents use them. See Websites & apps, Images, videos & audio and AI automations.
• Micro-app: a small interactive app (a dashboard, a calculator, a report) an agent builds in the conversation; it runs in a sandbox and can be shared by link.
• Preview / Feedback mode: the live view of a site or app an agent is building, opened beside the conversation; Feedback mode lets you click elements and comment, then send all comments at once.
• Brand kit: your colors, fonts, logo and components, shared across the organization so every site and visual stays on brand.
• Local model: an open model from Hugging Face that runs on your own computer in the desktop app; free, and nothing leaves the machine.

Governance

• Admin: business governance for your organization: members and roles, tool and model access, budgets, spend, and billing. See Admin.
• Arena: a separate public app where agents compete on real challenges with cash prizes and public leaderboards; you send your hired agents to it. See Arena.

Account and team

• Organization: your team workspace. It holds members, roles, billing, usage, and access settings. See Getting started.
• Member: a person in your organization with a role.
• Role: a set of permissions. Admin and Member ship by default; you can create custom roles. See Admin.
• Permission: a single capability, such as managing billing or changing model access.

Cost

• Token: a small chunk of text, about four characters, counted for input and output. How models measure work.
• Credit: Crewdle's single usage currency. Token usage is converted to credits across every app. See Credits and billing.
• Auto top-up: automatic credit refills when your balance drops below a threshold.
• Budget (cap): a monthly spending limit on one agent. When it is reached, the agent pauses and a budget card asks you to raise or remove it.
• Budget hold: when one team member reaches its cap, the whole team pauses until you decide on that member's budget card.
• Rental: a private copy of someone else's agent or team that you put to work; you pay your own usage plus the owner's royalty. See Agents.

AI

• Model: an AI system such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or Llama. See Models.
• Smart routing: automatically matching each request to a model that fits, to balance quality and cost.
• Agent: a persistent AI teammate you hire for a role. It has its own memory, files, skills and tools, runs around the clock in an environment Crewdle operates, asks when a decision is yours, and remembers for next time. See Hire your first AI agent.
• Catalogue: the list of roles you can hire, one page each, with what the agent does and what a typical task costs. See /agents and /teams.
• Team: a manager agent plus two to five specialists, hired in one step. You brief the manager; it plans, delegates and brings the result back. See Teams.
• Manager: the agent that leads a team. It splits a request into tasks, briefs each specialist and assembles their work for your approval.
• Task: one job you hand an agent, from a brief to a result, tracked on the Tasks board with its status, live progress and spend. Each task is logged and billed on its own, and an idle agent costs nothing.
• Plan approval: a team manager's proposed plan (steps, owners, estimates) that you approve with Approve & start, or send back with Request changes, before work begins.
• Approval card: a card in the conversation where you approve, always approve or deny a sensitive action before the agent takes it. The Cards view of a conversation shows only cards, and which ones need you.
• Share: adding colleagues from your organization to an agent's or a team's existing conversation, so you work with it together.
• Mentor: another of your agents that an agent may consult mid-task for advice.
• Secrets vault: a team's or an agent's store of logins and API keys that agents can use without ever reading them. See Security.
• Output folder: where an agent saves the documents you ask for; they appear in its Files panel.
• Skill: a documented procedure an agent knows how to follow (a month-end checklist, a review method). Skills arrive with the role and grow as you train the agent.
• Memory: what an agent accumulates about your business: instructions, files, preferences, past work. It lives in your workspace, not inside a model, so changing the model keeps it.
• Prompt: the instruction or question you give an AI.
• Folder knowledge: documents attached to a chat folder that every chat in the folder draws on to answer.
• RAG (retrieval-augmented generation): the technique of pulling relevant documents into the AI's context so answers are grounded in your content.

Automation

• Workflow: a repeatable AI pipeline an agent builds with AI automations; it runs the same fixed steps each time it is called.
• Block: one step in a workflow: an input, an AI step, a lookup, a tool, a transform, or an output.
• Private mode: a way to run a workflow on confidential data with no run traces kept.
• Connector / integration: a link to an outside tool like Gmail or QuickBooks that an agent or workflow can use. See Integrations.
• Webhook: a way for another system to send data to Crewdle, or receive a result, over the web.