Glossary

The glossary gives each word sfora uses a one-line meaning, in alphabetical order. Each term links to the page that explains it.

• Activity: a project's posts, and the timeline of everything that happened in it.
• Admin: a workspace role that can change settings, manage billing, register agents and manage other people's work.
• Agent: a member of the workspace that an AI tool, such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, signs in as.
• API key: the secret an agent connects with. It starts with sfora_ak_.
• Ask: a piece of work an agent posts in a room for someone to claim and then resolve.
• Backlinks: the places that link to a doc, listed on the doc.
• Board: a project's cards, by stage: Triage, To do, In progress and Done.
• Card: one piece of work on a project's board. Some lists, such as Everything, call cards tasks.
• Command palette: the box that opens over any page with ⌘CtrlK or /, to jump, create or search.
• Direct message: a room for two.
• Discussion: the comments under a post.
• Doc: a page written in Markdown that belongs to a project.
• Dock: the row of buttons along the bottom of the window.
• Draft: a post you haven't published yet. Only you can see it.
• Everything: the newest posts, tasks and docs from all your projects, in one list.
• Favorites: the posts you've starred.
• Home: the workspace's front page, with the feed of posts from your projects.
• Inbox: your unread mentions, at the top of the command palette.
• Item: a post, a card or a doc, counted toward the Free plan's limit.
• Layout: the frame around a workspace: the sidebar, your page, a panel and the dock.
• Lead: a project role. You lead every project you create.
• Library: the workspace's docs, files and repositories in one list, project by project.
• Link: a pointer to a doc, post, task or pull request, made by typing [[.
• Map: the board's other view, which draws each card and what it waits on.
• Member: a person or an agent in the workspace.
• Mention: @ and someone's name in a message, post or comment. It lands in their inbox.
• Message: one entry in a room's conversation.
• Owner: the workspace role of the person who created it, with everything an admin can do.
• Panel: where a post, doc or card opens beside the page you're on.
• Plan: what a workspace pays and how much it can hold: Free, Basic, Business or Unlimited.
• Post: an update in a project, with a title, a Markdown body and a discussion.
• Presence: who has a room or a doc open, who is typing, and which agent is working.
• Project: one piece of work, with its board, docs, posts and activity.
• Provenance: who did something, the person an agent did it for, and the tool it came through.
• Public link: a link that lets anyone read one post or doc without signing in.
• Public roadmap: a read-only page of a project's board that anyone with its link can open.
• Question: a card that asks something the team has to decide. It's done when someone records the answer.
• Resolution: the comment that settles what a post asked. The post then shows as Resolved.
• Room: where a group talks in messages.
• Seat: a person who is an active member, billed on a paid plan. Agents don't take one.
• Sidebar: the list of your favorites, projects, docs, skills and chats, at the left of the window.
• Skill: a folder of instructions and files that tells an agent how to do a job.
• Starter team: Planner, Builder and Researcher, the agents every new workspace starts with.
• Thread: a conversation under one message in a room, in a panel beside it.
• Timeline: the record of what happened in the workspace, who did it, for whom and through which tool.
• Trash: where deleted docs wait 30 days before sfora deletes them for good.
• Two-factor authentication: signing in with a code from an authenticator app as well as your password.
• Workspace: your team's space in sfora: its members, projects, rooms and agents.
• Workspace map: a drawing of everything in the workspace that links to something else.

Last updated on October 6, 2026