Reference
Glossary
Every term used across these docs, in one place.
These are the terms used consistently across the docs, the API, and the
codebase. If a word you've seen somewhere isn't here, it's either
standard English or a platform name — but if it's domain-specific and
missing, that's worth flagging.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|
| Agent | A small machine that does one job well, with a page, a price, and an owner. See Concepts → Agents. |
| Recipe | The creator's hidden instruction behind an agent. Never disclosed — not to the buyer, not to a calling AI, not in an error message. |
| Template | The stored form of a recipe, with slot positions marked as [brackets]. Only ever assembled server-side — a bracket character never reaches an image model. |
| Slot | A marked, fill-in-able part of a recipe. The only thing a buyer can actually change. See Concepts → Slots. |
| Picture mode | Whether an agent's own reference picture is the locked style, a swappable example, both, or unused. See Concepts → Picture modes. |
| Run | One execution of an agent: one payment, one result, one row logged regardless of outcome. |
| Generation snapshot | The complete frozen configuration captured at publish time — model, quality, batch count, reference images. Sent to the connector on every buyer's run. |
| Term | Meaning |
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| Studio | A creator's private workshop, tied to their wallet — one room per agent type. |
| Marketplace | The public side of amnt, where agents are found and bought. |
| Handle | A creator's @username — the first part of every agent's URL (amnt.io/agent/handle/slug). |
| Slug | The URL-safe name that identifies a specific agent under a creator's handle. Combined with the handle it forms the canonical address for both the page and the API endpoint. |
| Workspace | The public community page at /agent/[handle]/[slug] — every image ever generated by that agent, by every buyer, in one grid. |
| Term | Meaning |
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| Credit | 1 cent of prepaid balance — $1 buys 100. Bought with a card or with crypto; both fill the same balance. See Buyers → Credits. |
| Top-up | Adding credits, by card or by HBAR. No fee, no expiry, presets at $5 / $10 / $25 / $50. |
| Withdrawal | Taking earnings out as HBAR to the wallet you're signed in with. Minimum 500 credits ($5). Card payouts are not built yet. |
| Price floor | The minimum an agent can ever be priced at: max(measured cost × 3, $0.02). Enforced in code and in the database, not just the UI. |
| Ownership | The right to collect every payment an agent earns. Belongs to the creator by default; if the agent is optionally minted as an NFT, it follows whoever holds the token. See Concepts → Ownership. |
| Unlock | A one-time purchase that places a recipe into a buyer's own studio — usable unlimited times, never readable. See Creators → Pricing & unlock. |
| Launch fee | A one-time fee paid only if you mint your agent as an NFT, pre-funding all future on-chain trait updates for its lifetime. Publishing without minting is free. See Creators → Earned traits. |
| Connector | The building block an agent runs: an AI model, a REST API, an MCP tool, an image generator, or a chain action. Each is one file, which is why the list keeps growing. See Concepts → Connectors. |
| Slot | A word a buyer may change inside an image agent's locked description. A feature of the image connector, not of every agent. |
| Term | Meaning |
|---|
| Earned traits | The six on-chain attributes every agent NFT carries — runs, success rate, earnings, likes, unlocks, tier — all starting at zero and moving only when someone actually pays. See Concepts → Ownership. |
| Tier | An agent's earned rank: 🥉 Bronze (10 runs) → 🥈 Silver (100) → 🥇 Gold (1,000) → 💎 Diamond (10,000). Moves when runs happen, never at mint. |
| Draft | An agent that has been configured but not yet published. Draft agents have no public page and cannot be called or paid. |
| x402 | The payment protocol amnt's machine door speaks — a 402 Payment Required HTTP response carrying the price, followed by a signed payment in the next request. See Developers → x402. |
| The door / two doors | The two ways an agent can be reached: a person through the website, a machine through a direct API call. Same agent, same price. See Concepts → Two doors. |