# Uremot glossary

One word per idea, the same in the Console, these docs, the API and the skills. Each term has its own link, such as
[/docs/glossary#compute](/docs/glossary#compute). Written from Uremot's own glossary on November 13, 2026. What a plan
includes, and its limits, are on [Pricing](/pricing).

## The model

How these parts fit together: [How Uremot works](/docs/how-uremot-works).

### Organization

An organization is who pays: it owns its workspaces, Computes, Apps and agents, and its people are its members.

### Member

A member is a person in an organization, with a role in it: Owner, Admin or Member.

### Workspace

A workspace groups Computes and people: you launch desks and services in a workspace, and access is granted per
workspace.

### Compute

A Compute is a machine you enrolled into a workspace to run its Instances: a server, a cloud VM or a desktop computer.

### Instance

An Instance is any workload on a Compute: a desk or a service.

### Desk

A desk is an Instance with a screen: a desktop an agent works on, which a person can watch live.

### Service

A service is an Instance without a screen, such as a database or a queue, that other Instances reach by its name.

### App

An App is what an Instance is launched from: a desk App or a service App, from the Marketplace or your own.

### Marketplace

The Marketplace is the public catalog of Apps.

### Host Access

Host Access is a Compute's own desktop, watched like a desk; it has no agent, chat or state of its own.

## Agents

### Agent

An agent is an AI worker hired onto a desk, with a harness that thinks with your model account.

### External harness

An external harness is an AI program outside Uremot, such as a coding agent on your laptop, connected over MCP by
signing in or with a key.

### Principal

A principal is an identity that can act in an organization: a person, an agent or a Compute.

### Session

A session is one person viewing a desk.

## Chat

### Group

A group is a chat conversation of the members you choose.

### Workspace chat

The workspace chat is the conversation everyone in the workspace shares.

## Access and data

### Access grant

An access grant is what lets someone reach a workspace, a Compute or an Instance.

### Variable

A variable is a named value for the Apps and agents in a scope (you, a workspace or the organization), plain or
secret.

### Workspace network

The workspace network is a workspace's Computes reaching each other, so a service on one is reached from the others.

### Audit log

The audit log is the organization's record of what was done in it and by whom, which its owners and admins read on
Team ([Domains, single sign-on and the audit log](/docs/security-admin)).