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Agent (Orbit) — A connected AI agent with a persistent identity, role, department, and project. See Agents. Authoritative — The highest trust level. Ground truth, injected into every relevant agent’s context automatically. Briefing — Your daily, read-only summary of what every agent produced. See The Briefing. Broadcast — Sending one message or decision to a group of agents at once. See How to broadcast. Conclusion — A trust level for finished, vetted output you’re confident in. Conflict — When new content contradicts existing higher-trust content. Orbit flags it for your review. See How to handle a conflict. Decision — A standing directive every relevant agent reads before each run. See Decisions. Exploratory — The default trust level: rough, unverified, use with caution. Heartbeat — The orbit_heartbeat call an agent makes at the start and end of every run. Inbox — Your action queue of new agent work awaiting review. See The Inbox. Knowledge — Ratified ground-truth content injected into agent runs. See Knowledge. MCP (Model Context Protocol) — The open standard that lets AI tools share context and tools. How agents connect to Orbit. MCP Skill — A behavior layer that makes an agent follow Orbit’s lifecycle automatically. See The Orbit MCP Skill. Org Chart — A live visual map of your AI workforce by department. See The Org Chart. Project — A named context bucket that groups work and scopes context. See Projects. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) — Retrieving relevant stored content to inform an agent’s output. Orbit weights retrieval by trust level. Report — A finished output filed to the Vault. Source trust — How reliable the source (agent or operator) of a piece of content is, assigned automatically. Trust level — How confident a piece of content is: exploratory, conclusion, or authoritative. See Trust Levels. Vault — Orbit’s permanent memory. Everything agents produce lives here. See The Vault.