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title: Words we use
description: The words Auttendo uses in the interface, what each one means, and how a run, a prompt, a message, and a project relate to one another.
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Auttendo tries to say things plainly. A few words carry a specific meaning
throughout the product, so this page collects them in one place.

## While you are working

**Conversation** — a thread you and your team share with the agent. Everything
you send and everything the agent produces stays here, in order.

**Message** — anything sent into a conversation. A message you address to your
team is a **team message**; a message you address to the agent is an **AI
prompt**.

**Run** — one piece of work the agent does in response to an AI prompt. A run
starts when you send, works for a while, and finishes with a result. You can
see how long it worked and what it did.

**Action** — one step a run took, such as reading a source or writing a note.
Open a run to see its actions.

**Decision** — a question the agent asks when it needs you before it can carry
on. The run pauses until you answer, decline, or it expires.

## Changing a run

The controls sit in the composer, where you already type. [Change what a run is
doing](/steering-a-run) covers them in full.

**Queued** — a message you sent while a run was working. It waits its turn, and
the working run keeps everything it has done.

**Send now** — hand a queued message to the run that is already working instead
of waiting. That run keeps everything it has done.

**Stop** — end the run that is working now. Nothing it was working on is kept.

After stopping, sending again starts a fresh run, recorded as following on from
the one you stopped.

## Where work lives

**Organization** — your company in Auttendo. Everything below belongs to one
organization.

**Member** — a person in your organization. In the interface you will usually
just see their name.

**Project** — a body of work with its own instructions, knowledge, and people.

**Channel** — a place inside a project where conversations happen.

**Library** — the sources, procedures, and notes a project or organization can
draw on.

## Words you will not see

Auttendo's engineering documentation uses more precise names for some of these
concepts — an *Agent Run*, a *Conversation Context Boundary*, a *Queued Agent
Run*, a *Steer*. Those are for the people building Auttendo. In the product you
should only ever read the plain words above; if you find one of the technical
ones on a screen, that is a bug worth reporting.