> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL. > For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.ovalbee.com/llms.txt. > For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.ovalbee.com/_mcp/server. # Glossary | Term | Meaning | | -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **Annotation** | The labels of one image or video in a dataset: its objects, their geometry and class, and its tags. Each image has one annotation per dataset. See [Assets and annotations](/concepts/assets). | | **Annotation tool** | The labeling interface that labelers and reviewers open from a Labeling or Review stage. See [Labeling](/concepts/labeling). | | **Asset** | One stored item: an image, video, annotation, model file or report. | | **Badge** | A small label on a node showing a result of its last run, a schedule or a missing input. | | **Catalog** | The pretrained models that come with OvalBee's training and prediction nodes. Add one to your registry to use it. See [Models and deployments](/concepts/models). | | **Dataset** | A named, versioned set of assets. See [Datasets and versions](/concepts/datasets). | | **Decision button** | A button in the annotation tool, paired with the dataset it sends the image to. Set in the **Decision buttons** input of Labeling and Review. See [Labeling](/concepts/labeling). | | **Deployment** | A model running as a long-lived service with an HTTP endpoint. See [Models and deployments](/concepts/models#deployments). | | **Edge** | An arrow between two nodes. A *flow edge* runs the target after the source succeeds, a *visual edge* is drawing only. Edges never carry data. See [Edges](/concepts/edges). | | **Flow** | A graph of nodes that describes and runs a process. See [Flows](/concepts/flows). | | **Group** | A named, colored frame around related nodes on the canvas. Visual only. | | **Instance administrator** | A person who configures the whole installation: sign-in, email, storage, compute, user accounts. See [Administration](/administration/overview). | | **Isolated run** | A run of one node that doesn't start the nodes after it. See [Runs and automation](/concepts/runs#isolated-runs). | | **Latest / pinned** | A dataset or model input either follows the newest version (*@latest*) or stays on one exact version. | | **Live example** | A real flow published read-only with its data and reports, opened by its public link. See [Public examples](/build/templates#public-examples). | | **Machine class** | The kind of machine a node or deployment runs on, picked from the run button's menu or in the Deploy dialog, or left on the installation's default. Administrators define the classes and map them to real hardware. See [Compute](/administration/compute). | | **MCP** | Model Context Protocol, the standard OvalBee uses to let external AI agents build and edit flows. See [Build with an AI agent](/build/agent). | | **Node** | One step of a flow, placed from a template in the Node Library. See [Nodes](/concepts/nodes). | | **Node template** | The definition of a node in the Node Library: what it does, and its inputs and outputs. | | **Ontology** | A versioned vocabulary of classes and tags that datasets and models are pinned to. See [Ontologies](/concepts/ontologies). | | **Pool** | A dataset holding work that waits for a labeling or review stage. | | **Reference** | An input bound to another node's output, resolved to that output's latest value when the node runs. The app calls it a *variable binding*. See [Edges and references](/concepts/references). | | **Registry** | Your workspace's models and their versions, with metrics, classes and lineage. | | **Report** | A document a node builds from its results, with charts, tables and image galleries. See [Reports](/concepts/reports). | | **Run** | One execution of one node, with its inputs, outputs, logs and artifacts. See [Runs and automation](/concepts/runs). | | **Secret** | A credential stored encrypted in a workspace for nodes to use. See [Secrets and API tokens](/administration/secrets-and-tokens). | | **Stage** | A Labeling or Review node that hands work from a pool to the people assigned to it. | | **Template** | A reusable flow, or part of one, without any workspace data. See [Templates and sharing](/build/templates). | | **Template setup** | The step-by-step setup some templates open when added to a flow. It asks only what the template can't decide, then **Start** creates its datasets and runs it. | | **Widget** | The preview a node shows on the canvas: images, a report button, the annotation tool button, a file drop zone. | | **Workspace** | Where flows, data, models, secrets and members live. Called a *space* in the sidebar. See [Members and roles](/administration/members-and-roles). |