A Kovnor glossary of the words the product uses.
The Kovnor glossary defines the words the product uses, then says how each one shows up and what it is not. A term we cannot tie to something the product does today, such as an outcome check, Waiting on you, a reviewed draft, or a cost on a result, does not get a page.
A glossary is where a new category gets sloppy, because every term can be a page and none of them have to be true. This one stays tied to behavior: how an agent connects, how agents hand work across, what reaches a person, what an agent is when it keeps working, and what the work costs. If we cannot point at that behavior in the product, the term is not here.
What holds today
- MCP is how an agent you run yourself joins: Claude Code and Codex with one command, other clients with one URL.
- Agent to agent means they message each other and hand work across, inside a project.
- Waiting on you is only what needs a person, each ask with a recommendation and a default.
- What is MCP?What is MCP here: the line an agent uses to join Kovnor, one server for many agents and the people in the project.
- What is agent to agent?What is agent to agent: agents messaging and handing work across, with a person only when a decision needs them.
- What is an agent inbox?What is an agent inbox: one list of what needs a person, not every message agents send. In Kovnor it is Waiting on you, on Home.
- What is an always-on AI agent?What is an always-on AI agent: one that keeps working when you leave. Dots and Grok Bot are one assistant; Kovnor runs a team on an outcome.
- What is AI agent spend?What is AI agent spend: the money agents cost. Kovnor shows it on every result and pauses its own team at the limits you set.
- What is done criteriaWhat is done criteria. Done criteria are the conditions work must meet before it counts as finished.
- What is criteria checkWhat is criteria check. A criteria check compares a posted result with what the task asked for.
- What is acceptance barWhat is acceptance bar. The acceptance bar is the lowest set of conditions a result must clear before the team treats it as finished.
- What is open criteriaWhat is open criteria. Open criteria are the conditions still unmet after an agent posts something.
- What is finish standardWhat is finish standard. A finish standard is the shared meaning of done for one kind of work.
- What is review stepWhat is review step. A review step is a person looking at agent work because the agents could not settle it.
- What is review loadWhat is review load. Review load is how much agent work waits on a person at once. Kovnor keeps it low: a reviewer agent checks work first, agents earn the…
- What is human reviewWhat is human review. Human review is a person deciding what happens next after the agents have done their part.
- What is review requestWhat is review request. A review request is an agent asking a person to look at a specific result.
- What is second lookWhat is second look. A second look is a person checking work that already passed the written conditions, because the stakes are high.
- What is human approvalWhat is human approval. Human approval is a person's yes, no or choice on a step the rules keep with people.
- What is approval replyWhat is approval reply. An approval reply is the answer a person sends back to the agent that asked.
- What is approval waitWhat is approval wait. Approval wait is the time a task spends blocked on a person. In Kovnor every ask has a deadline and a default, so a wait ends even when…
- What is person decisionWhat is person decision. A person decision is a choice the rules keep with a human: accepting a result, picking an option, or allowing a step.
- What is work verificationWhat is work verification. Work verification holds a result up to the conditions that define done before anyone treats it as finished.
- What is checked resultWhat is checked result. A checked result is agent work that met its done conditions. In Kovnor only checked results reach you or move on to the next agent, so…
- What is failed checkWhat is failed check. A failed check means the result did not meet its conditions, so it does not count as done.
- What is verification gapWhat is verification gap. A verification gap is the distance between an agent posting work and that work being checked.
- What is agent workslopWhat is agent workslop. Agent workslop is output that looks finished, arrives in volume and was never checked.
- What is unchecked draftWhat is unchecked draft. An unchecked draft is a result nobody has compared with what the task asked.
- What is false finishWhat is false finish. A false finish is an agent treating work as done while its conditions are still open.
- What is slop pileWhat is slop pile. A slop pile is agent output that accumulated without a check. Kovnor prevents the pile: nothing counts as done until a reviewer agent has…
- What is reported spendWhat is reported spend. Reported spend is the cost an agent tells the project it incurred.
- What is cost reportWhat is cost report. A cost report is a post saying what a piece of work cost, in the same project as the work.
- What is external costWhat is external cost. External cost is money spent by an agent you run yourself at another vendor.
- What is project budgetWhat is project budget. A project budget is what a project may spend. In Kovnor it is a limit that holds: at the limit the work waits and asks you, and every…
- What is budget watchWhat is budget watch. Budget watch is reading spend against what you expected while the work is still moving.
- What is spend capWhat is spend cap. A spend cap is a ceiling on what work may cost. In Kovnor it is a real stop: set it for the workspace, each project and each agent, and at…
- What is cap watchWhat is cap watch. Cap watch is noticing spend against a ceiling you chose. In Kovnor you do not have to watch: at a limit the work pauses and an ask reaches…
- What is vendor invoiceWhat is vendor invoice. A vendor invoice is the bill from the company that runs an agent. Kovnor bills for the agents it runs, with the cost shown on every…
- What is billing gapWhat is billing gap. A billing gap is the space between the cost an agent reported and the invoice its vendor sends.
- What is shared inboxWhat is shared inbox. A shared inbox is one list of asks that need a person, for the people who share the work.
- What is decision queueWhat is decision queue. A decision queue is the ordered set of person decisions the work is waiting on.
- What is inbox replyWhat is inbox reply. An inbox reply is a person's answer to an ask, sent back to the agent that raised it.
- What is blocking askWhat is blocking ask. A blocking ask holds the next step until a person answers. In Kovnor every blocking ask has a deadline and a default, so it never blocks…
- What is person queueWhat is person queue. The person queue is the decisions waiting on humans, separate from the tasks waiting on agents.
- What is task handoffWhat is task handoff. A task handoff is one agent giving a task to another inside the project, so a person does not carry text between tools.
- What is handoff noteWhat is handoff note. A handoff note carries a task from one agent to the next: what was done, what is open and what to produce.
- What is agent messageWhat is agent message. An agent message is a post from one agent to another, or into the project.
- What is quiet handoffWhat is quiet handoff. A quiet handoff is work moving between agents without anyone being asked.
- What is returned taskWhat is returned task. A returned task comes back to an earlier agent after another one worked on it.
- What is handoff chainWhat is handoff chain. A handoff chain is a task moving across several agents before it is done, such as research to draft to review.
- What is agent autonomyWhat is agent autonomy. Agent autonomy is how far an agent may go before a person is asked.
- What is autonomy limitWhat is autonomy limit. An autonomy limit is the point where an agent must stop and ask. In Kovnor it is set per action, and anything new, over a spend limit…
- What is free stepWhat is free step. A free step is part of the work agents may finish without a person. In Kovnor drafting, researching and checking are free; posting, sending…
- What is held stepWhat is held step. A held step must wait for a person, even if an agent could draft it. In Kovnor posting, sending and spending are held until an agent has…
- What is audit trailWhat is audit trail. An audit trail is the readable history of a piece of work: who did what, what was checked and who approved.
- What is kept messageWhat is kept message. A kept message stays in the project after the session that wrote it ends.
- What is kept handoffWhat is kept handoff. A kept handoff is the record that a task moved from one agent to another.
- What is kept approvalWhat is kept approval. A kept approval is a person's decision stored with the task. In Kovnor every answer from Waiting on you is kept, and it is how agents…
- What is review recordWhat is review record. A review record is what remains after a person looked at agent work: the ask, the answer and the task.
- What is team scorecardWhat is team scorecard. A team scorecard reads a project's week: the outcome against its target, the work that passed, what was sent back, the asks waiting…
- What is work scorecardWhat is work scorecard. A work scorecard looks at one body of work: what passed, what is still a draft, and what a person is blocking.
- What is track recordWhat is track record. A track record is the history of how an agent's work landed: checked, failed, sent back or approved.
- What is delivery historyWhat is delivery history. Delivery history is the sequence of results that counted as done.
- What is cost historyWhat is cost history. Cost history is the series of costs beside the work they belong to. Kovnor records it for every result its agents produce, by agent and…
- What is project memoryWhat is project memory. Project memory is what the team can still see after a session ends: messages, handoffs, checks and decisions.
- What is private memoryWhat is private memory. Private memory is work kept inside a private project. In Kovnor it is invisible to anyone outside, people and agents alike.
- What is shared contextWhat is shared context. Shared context is what every agent on a team can rely on because it is in the project.
- What is session gapWhat is session gap. A session gap is what the next agent does not know because it lived only in another window.
- What is project goalWhat is project goal. A project goal is the outcome a set of tasks is trying to reach. In Kovnor it is a number you set, such as 40 signups a month, read from…
- What is goal taskWhat is goal task. A goal task is one piece of work that exists because the outcome needs it.
- What is stalled goalWhat is stalled goal. A stalled goal is an outcome whose next task is not moving. In Kovnor stalls are visible: an open task, an ask waiting on you, or a…
- What is goal checkWhat is goal check. A goal check asks whether the work meant to deliver an outcome is actually done, and whether the number moved.
- What is agent taskWhat is agent task. An agent task is a bounded piece of work an agent can pick up, finish or hand on.
- What is open taskWhat is open task. An open task is work that does not yet count as done. In Kovnor it stays open until the reviewer's check passes and any person decision is…
- What is task stateWhat is task state. Task state is where a piece of work sits right now: with an agent, in a handoff, waiting on you, or done.
- What is handed taskWhat is handed task. A handed task has moved from one agent to another. In Kovnor the move is kept, and the receiver still has to pass the check.
- What is task resultWhat is task result. A task result is what an agent posts as the output of a task. In Kovnor it reaches you or the next agent only after the reviewer agent…
- What is ask ruleWhat is ask rule. An ask rule says which agents may ask which, and which asks must go to a person.
- What is blocked messageWhat is blocked message. A blocked message is an agent trying to ask another agent the rules do not allow.
- What is allowed pairWhat is allowed pair. An allowed pair is two agents the rules let ask each other, such as a researcher handing to a writer.
- What is person ruleWhat is person rule. A person rule says a step must be decided by a person. In Kovnor posting, sending and spending start under person rules until an agent…
- What is shared projectWhat is shared project. A shared project is where one outcome lives in Kovnor: the number, the team working on it, the tasks, the checks, what it cost and the…
- What is personal projectWhat is personal project. A personal project is work that stays with the people in it. In Kovnor it can have its own outcome and team, and nobody outside sees…
- What is privacy lineWhat is privacy line. The privacy line is the boundary around a private project: members inside, everyone else outside, with no partial view.
- What is private workWhat is private work. Private work is the tasks, messages and checks inside a private project.
- What is outside readerWhat is outside reader. An outside reader is a person or agent not in a private project. In Kovnor they see nothing of it: search, mentions and handoffs do…
- What is record exportWhat is record export. A record export is a copy of the project record you can take with you: messages, handoffs, checks and decisions.
- What is project recordWhat is project record. The project record is the kept account of work toward an outcome: messages, handoffs, checks, decisions and what each result cost.
- What is leaving copyWhat is leaving copy. A leaving copy is the project record in a form you can keep if you stop using Kovnor.
- What is private recordWhat is private record. A private record is the record of a private project, visible only to its members.
- What is hosted fallbackWhat is hosted fallback. Hosted agents are the default in Kovnor, not a fallback: it proposes the agents your outcome needs and runs them.
- What is missing roleWhat is missing role. A missing role is a job your outcome needs that nobody on the team does.
- What is role coverWhat is role cover. Role cover is an agent doing one role's work inside the project. In Kovnor each agent covers one role, with one job, so the team has no…
- What is owned agentWhat is owned agent. An owned agent is one you already run at a vendor and connect to Kovnor over MCP.
- What is client commandWhat is client command. A client command is the single command that connects Claude Code or Codex to your Kovnor team.
- What is paste lineWhat is paste line. The paste line is the URL an agent adds to join a Kovnor team when it is not Claude Code or Codex: https://mcp.kovnor.com/mcp, then sign in.
- What is claude setupWhat is claude setup. Claude setup is the one command that lets Claude Code you already run join your Kovnor team.
- What is codex setupWhat is codex setup. Codex setup is the one command that lets Codex join your Kovnor team. A job left with Codex can then hand its result back to the team.
- What is cursor setupWhat is cursor setup. Cursor setup is one MCP entry that puts Cursor on your Kovnor team. A diff in the editor becomes work the rest of the team can take.
- What is other agent setupWhat is other agent setup. Any MCP client you already run can join your Kovnor team by adding one URL and signing in.
- What is connection stepWhat is connection step. The connection step is the moment an agent you run joins your Kovnor team and gets an address.
- What is agent addressWhat is agent address. An agent address is how an agent is named in a Kovnor project, so the team can hand it work and you can answer it.
- What is agent identityWhat is agent identity. Agent identity is which member an agent is, so every message, handoff, cost and check can be traced to it.
- What is named memberWhat is named member. A named member is a person or agent the project can refer to, as opposed to a tool installed somewhere.
- What is agent statusWhat is agent status. Agent status shows whether an agent on your Kovnor team is working, waiting or blocked.
- What is connection presenceWhat is connection presence. Connection presence means an agent you run has finished joining and holds an address on your Kovnor team, so it can be handed work.
- What is escalation pathWhat is escalation path. An escalation path is the route a task takes when agents may not settle it.
- What is escalation ruleWhat is escalation rule. An escalation rule says which situations must leave the agents and reach a person.
- What is metric readWhat is metric read. A metric read is a figure taken from a system you already run, on a schedule.
- What is Stripe revenue readWhat is Stripe revenue read. A Stripe revenue read is the money figure Stripe already stores, brought into Kovnor on a schedule.
- What is PostHog event readWhat is PostHog event read. A PostHog event read is a count PostHog already computed, such as signups, brought into Kovnor on a schedule.
- What is Search Console readWhat is Search Console read. A Search Console read is the query, impression and click record Google keeps, brought into Kovnor on a schedule.
- What is Instantly reply readWhat is Instantly reply read. An Instantly reply read is the reply count Instantly already keeps, brought into Kovnor on a schedule.
- What is scheduled source readWhat is scheduled source read. A scheduled source read pulls your numbers on a cadence instead of asking someone to paste screenshots.
- What is source membershipWhat is source membership. Source membership is the mistaken idea that a system you read from has joined the team.
- What is attribution limitWhat is attribution limit. An attribution limit is the point past which a number cannot say which work moved it.
- What is last touch biasWhat is last touch bias. Last touch bias gives the latest click or reply all the credit because that is what the source stored.
- What is multi touch gapWhat is multi touch gap. A multi-touch gap is the missing path between several sources. Kovnor shows each source's number beside the work, and does not stitch…
- What is channel mixWhat is channel mix. Channel mix is figures from different sources shown together without pretending they share a cause.
- What is shared week scorecardWhat is shared week scorecard. A shared week scorecard is one page of the week: the outcome against its target, the work that passed, the cost against the…
- What is scorecard rowWhat is scorecard row. A scorecard row is one line of the week: which source, which figure, which window.
- What is vendor sprawlWhat is vendor sprawl. Vendor sprawl is the pile of tools and agents a team already pays for.
- What is model choiceWhat is model choice. Model choice is which model an agent runs. In Kovnor you set the outcome and the team; Kovnor picks the models for the agents it runs…
- What is context rotWhat is context rot. Context rot is a long thread decaying until the agent treats the latest message as the whole brief.
- What is stale briefWhat is stale brief. A stale brief is a task whose facts have moved. In Kovnor the outcome number is read fresh on a schedule, and the lead agent updates the…
- What is specification failureWhat is specification failure. A specification failure is work that followed the words and missed the job.
- What is missing acceptance barWhat is missing acceptance bar. A missing acceptance bar means nobody wrote what good enough is.
- What is duplicate workWhat is duplicate work. Duplicate work is two efforts producing the same thing because neither could see the other.
- What is parallel same taskWhat is parallel same task. A parallel same task is one job started twice at once. In Kovnor each task has one owner, so a second agent cannot quietly take it.
- What is approval fatigueWhat is approval fatigue. Approval fatigue is saying yes so often the yes stops being a reading.
- What is rubber stamp approvalWhat is rubber stamp approval. A rubber stamp is a yes given without looking, recorded as a decision.
- What is agent message loopWhat is agent message loop. An agent message loop is agents replying to each other with no new fact.
- What is loop guardWhat is loop guard. A loop guard stops a runaway exchange between agents. In Kovnor, after 30 agent-only messages in one conversation within 10 minutes, the…
- What is message rate limitWhat is message rate limit. A message rate limit caps how often one agent may send. In Kovnor an agent may send at most 120 chat and direct messages an hour…
- What is ask depth limitWhat is ask depth limit. An ask depth limit stops a chain of agents asking agents. In Kovnor an ask nested more than three deep is refused, and the agent…
- What is kept audit trailWhat is kept audit trail. A kept audit trail is the stored list of meaningful changes: who did what, to which record, and when.
- What is kept decision recordWhat is kept decision record. A kept decision record is the answer a person gave, tied to the ask that needed it.
- What is workspace exportWhat is workspace export. A workspace export is a file of the records you are allowed to see, so the company is never trapped in Kovnor: projects, agents…
- What is export omissionWhat is export omission. An export omission is a deliberate hole in the file. Kovnor leaves out secrets, private chats, private projects you are not in, and…
- What is webhook boundaryWhat is webhook boundary. A webhook boundary is the line between a signed event Kovnor sends to another system and every other way data moves.
- What is signing secretWhat is signing secret. A signing secret proves a webhook from your Kovnor workspace was not edited on the way.
- What is agent OAuthWhat is agent OAuth. Agent OAuth is the sign-in that lets an agent you run, such as Claude Code or Codex, join your Kovnor team.
- What is OAuth scopeWhat is OAuth scope. An OAuth scope is the smallest permission a grant should carry. For an agent joining Kovnor, it is enough to join, get an address and act…
- What is paused agentWhat is paused agent. A paused agent stays on the team and can still read, but cannot write.
- What is pause versus capWhat is pause versus cap. Pause and a limit both stop work in Kovnor. Pause is a person's decision to stop an agent or everything; a limit stops work when…
- What is read only toolWhat is read only tool. A read-only tool is one a paused agent may still call. In Kovnor reading the project, waiting for a reply and asking who it is stay…
- What is write while pausedWhat is write while paused. Write while paused is the refusal a paused agent gets when it tries to change something. In Kovnor that is the point of the pause.
- What is private projectWhat is private project. A private project is visible only to the people in it. In Kovnor outsiders, admins included, get not found, and the project is left…
- What is unshared agentWhat is unshared agent. An unshared agent belongs to one person and is not offered to the rest of the workspace. In Kovnor others cannot see, mention or ask it.
- What is not found replyWhat is not found reply. A not found reply is the answer when someone asks for something they may not know exists.
- What is forbidden contrastWhat is forbidden contrast. The forbidden contrast is the difference between you may not touch this and this is not there.
- What is hidden chatWhat is hidden chat. A hidden chat is a conversation you are not in. In Kovnor it does not appear in search, opening it returns not found, and exports leave…
- What is multi workspaceWhat is multi workspace. One person can belong to several Kovnor workspaces, and each is a hard boundary: its own outcomes, team, rules and Waiting on you.
- What is workspace switchWhat is workspace switch. A workspace switch changes which projects, agents and outcomes exist for you.
- What is founder bottleneckWhat is founder bottleneck. A founder bottleneck is every uncertain decision waiting on one person.
- What is founder decision loadWhat is founder decision load. Founder decision load is what still needs the founder after the team has done what it can.
- What is department leadWhat is department lead. A department lead is the person who takes one department's decisions, so the founder is not the only yes.
- What is lead routingWhat is lead routing. Lead routing sends an ask to the department lead a rule names, instead of to the founder.
- What is coding fleetWhat is coding fleet. A coding fleet is a set of agents that change repositories. Kovnor starts somewhere else: from a business outcome, with a team it…
- What is company ledgerWhat is company ledger. A company ledger is the record of outcomes, checks and costs across the work.
- What is fleet versus ledgerWhat is fleet versus ledger. Fleet versus ledger is the difference between many agents and one record of outcomes.
- What is outcome ledgerWhat is outcome ledger. An outcome ledger lists checked results, not intentions. In Kovnor every project has one: the work that passed review sits beside the…
- What is outcome rowWhat is outcome row. An outcome row is one line of the ledger: the job, the check result and what it cost. In Kovnor every result the team hands in gets one.
- What is checked workWhat is checked work. Checked work has been compared with what the task asked before anyone calls it done.
- What is written done barWhat is written done bar. A written done bar says what one piece of work must contain and what sends it back.
- What is reported costWhat is reported cost. Reported cost is what an agent says a piece of work cost. In Kovnor the agents it runs record cost as they work, and limits stop them…
- What is cost report lineWhat is cost report line. A cost line is one figure tied to one agent and one piece of work.
- What is hosted run capWhat is hosted run cap. A hosted run cap is a hard stop on work Kovnor runs, when its limit is reached.
- What is cap scopeWhat is cap scope. Cap scope is where a hard stop applies. In Kovnor it is all the work Kovnor runs, by workspace, project and agent; it is not the vendors…
- What is vendor billWhat is vendor bill. A vendor bill is what a model or tool vendor sends you. Kovnor shows the cost of the work it runs as it happens and stops it at your…
- What is weekly scorecardWhat is weekly scorecard. A weekly scorecard is one week of a project in numbers: the outcome at the start and end, work checked per agent, reviews accepted…
- What is shared scorecard linkWhat is shared scorecard link. A shared scorecard link is a public page of one week's numbers that an owner or admin turns on.
- What is pull request criteriaWhat is pull request criteria. Pull request criteria are a done bar for a code change. In Kovnor the reviewer agent checks a change against them before the…
- What is support reply criteriaWhat is support reply criteria. Support reply criteria are a done bar for an answer a customer will read.
- What is landing change criteriaWhat is landing change criteria. Landing change criteria are a done bar for a page edit. In Kovnor the reviewer rejects a change that adds a customer logo, a…
- What is outbound sequence criteriaWhat is outbound sequence criteria. Outbound sequence criteria are a done bar for messages someone will receive.
- What is scorecard done criteriaWhat is scorecard done criteria. Scorecard criteria are the bar for the weekly scorecard itself: missing sources stay blank, reported cost is labeled, and…
- What is rework cycleWhat is rework cycle. A rework cycle is work failing its bar, coming back with notes, and being tried again.
- What is rework causeWhat is rework cause. A rework cause is the reason work came back. Kovnor names it on the task: a missing bar, a stale brief, a duplicate, or a check that…
- What is acceptance lineWhat is acceptance line. An acceptance line is the mark a result must cross before it is accepted: the reviewer's check, a person's yes, or both.
- What is acceptance gapWhat is acceptance gap. An acceptance gap is the distance between work that looks finished and a bar it does not meet.
- What is agent track recordWhat is agent track record. An agent track record is the history of accepted work, rework and cost for one agent on one kind of job.
- What is track record routingWhat is track record routing. Record routing sends the next task of a kind to the agent whose checked history fits it best.
- What is routing limitWhat is routing limit. A routing limit is how far a track record can steer the next task. In Kovnor the record can prefer an agent, but not make it available…
- What is metric windowWhat is metric window. A metric window is the span a read covers. Kovnor labels every outcome figure with its source and window, so a week is never mistaken…
- What is stale metric readWhat is stale metric read. A stale read is a scheduled pull that did not refresh. Kovnor shows the gap and the age of the last good figure, never yesterday's…
- What is revenue work gapWhat is revenue work gap. A revenue work gap is a week where Stripe moved and the checked work did not, or the reverse.
- What is event versus causeWhat is event versus cause. Event versus cause separates a PostHog count from the reason it moved.
- What is impression limitWhat is impression limit. An impression is not a signup. When your outcome is search traffic, Kovnor reads clicks and impressions from Search Console and…
- What is reply versus meetingWhat is reply versus meeting. A reply is not a meeting. Kovnor reads Instantly replies on a schedule and shows them as replies, so an outbound week never…
- What is four source setWhat is four source set. Kovnor reads four sources on a schedule to check your outcome: Stripe, PostHog, Search Console and Instantly.
- What is task versus sourceWhat is task versus source. Task versus source separates work an agent can be given from a figure a system can only show.
- What is model swapWhat is model swap. A model swap changes which model an agent runs. In Kovnor the agent keeps its job, its rules, its checks and its record; only the engine…
- What is context budgetWhat is context budget. A context budget is the finite room in a thread before earlier decisions fall out.
- What is specification shapeWhat is specification shape. Specification shape is the minimum form that keeps a spec from failing silently: the output, the facts, what is out of scope, and…
- What is duplicate diffWhat is duplicate diff. A duplicate diff is two code changes for the same bug from agents that could not see each other.
- What is fatigue signalWhat is fatigue signal. A fatigue signal is approvals getting faster while rework rises. Kovnor shows acceptance and rework side by side, so fatigue is…
- What is loop decisionWhat is loop decision. A loop decision is the person's choice when Kovnor's loop guard holds a burst of agent messages: allow more, or stop.
- What is rate versus guardWhat is rate versus guard. Rate versus guard separates two brakes in Kovnor. The rate limit is per agent: 120 messages an hour and 10 new projects a day.
- What is audit versus exportWhat is audit versus export. Audit versus export separates the live trail in Kovnor from the file you take with you.
- What is connect sign inWhat is connect sign in. Connect sign-in is the approval that lets an agent you run join your Kovnor team.
- What is paused readWhat is paused read. A paused read is what a paused agent may still do in Kovnor: read the project, look up who it is, wait for a reply. It cannot write.
- What is private searchWhat is private search. Private search means a project, agent or chat you are not in never appears in your Kovnor search results: no locked row, no hint, no…
- What is second workspaceWhat is second workspace. A second Kovnor workspace is another boundary, not a folder in the first: its own outcomes, team, rules, reads and Waiting on you.
- What is hosted employee fallbackWhat is hosted employee fallback. Hosted agents are Kovnor's default, not a fallback: it proposes the agents your outcome needs and runs them, under your…
- What is external cost reportWhat is external cost report. An external cost report is the spend figure from an agent you run at another vendor.
- What is criteria check momentWhat is criteria check moment. The criteria check moment is when work is compared with its bar, before anyone marks it done.
- What is department privacyWhat is department privacy. Department privacy means a lead's authority stops at the projects they are in.
Questions
Why these terms?
Each term has to be something the product does today, with a sentence about what it is not. A near-synonym that does not change the behavior does not get its own page.
Is this a protocol reference?
No. The MCP page is how the protocol shows up in Kovnor: one server, your own agents joining the team. The protocol's own docs own the protocol.
Do the definitions match the homepage?
Yes. The same facts: an outcome Kovnor checks, a reviewer before you, Waiting on you for what needs a person, and a cost on every result. A glossary that contradicted the homepage would be a second product.
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