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Glossary

This glossary defines the public vocabulary used in Collab.codes documentation.

Collab.codes

Platform for creating, running, collaborating on, governing, and evolving business software with AI.

Creation

The product area focused on transforming business intent into application changes, screens, workflows, and maintainable product structure.

Runtime

The environment that executes the generated customer application.

Collaboration

The product area that brings messages, tasks, agents, mini apps, and contextual work into the customer application.

Managed platform

The Collab.codes services around the application, including identity, LLM access, cost management, and operational support.

Studio

The contextual creation and maintenance experience loaded near the customer application.

Page Genome

The public model for preserving page intent, layout behavior, device category, and variation without exposing internal codes.

Molecules

Reusable Lit 3 component contracts used to keep business interfaces adaptable.

Master config

The composition layer that connects a client project to its master frontend, master backend, common runtime, and modules.

Collab Aura

The opinionated master frontend used by the reference runtime.

Collab Forge

The opinionated master backend used by the reference runtime.

BFF

Backend-for-frontend. A backend boundary shaped around the needs of the frontend experience.

Collab Messages

The communication and task layer for users, workflows, agents, and mini apps.

Collab Auth

The managed authentication and authorization service used across the Collab.codes ecosystem.

Collab LLM

The managed LLM proxy for routing, monitoring, billing, cache, rate limits, and provider flexibility.

OpenClaw

Optional external automation integration space for research, channels, support, and agent workflows.