- ACP: Agent Client Protocol, a JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol for client/agent sessions, prompts, tool calls, and streaming updates.
- Inspector: CLI mode that reads ACP traces and reports validation findings.
- Sentinel: Validation layer that checks ACP traffic and emits findings.
- Lane: A validation category used to group findings.
- Finding: A validation result with severity and context.
- Holon: A coarse-grained layer in this repo (protocol, runtime, sentinel).
- Trace: A JSONL stream or file of ACP messages, typically captured from runtime traffic.
- Draft RFD: A draft Request for Dialog that proposes future ACP changes; supported behind a feature gate.
- Unstable gate: The
--acp-unstableflag that enables draft RFD parsing/display.