Glossary · Liyagent Documentation

Term	Meaning
A2A	Agent-to-agent protocol. Liyagent can publish an agent card and call remote agents.
Binding (model)	The provider, model and fallback lists an agent calls.
Binding (guardrail)	Which guardrail set applies to which agent.
Breaker	Per-backend circuit breaker: closed, open or half-open.
Cedar	The policy language Liyagent uses for authorization.
Deflection	Answering a request without a ticket reaching a person.
Dead model	A model skipped until its reset time after the provider says it is gone or out of quota.
Engine	How a decision is made: rules, rules plus model, or model.
Evidence bundle	A signed export of the hash-chained audit log that anyone can verify offline with the instance's published audit signing key.
Known issue	An open ticket that later duplicate reports are folded into.
Liya	Liyagent's agent family, and the agent people talk to.
Managed agent	An agent Liyagent runs: instructions, tools, sub-agents and limits in the console.
MCP	Model Context Protocol, how agents get tools.
Run as	Whose permissions a managed agent's tool calls use: the agent's own, or the invoker's as well.
Self-managed agent	An agent running elsewhere that calls the gateway with its own credential.
Semantic cache	Reuse of a verified earlier answer for a question that means the same thing.
Sensitivity label	public, internal, confidential or restricted. Limits where an item may be retrieved.
Sub-agent	A specialist a managed agent can delegate to. One defined on the parent spends the parent's budget.
Taxonomy	A tenant's categories, default IT or learned from its tickets.
Tenant	A separated slice of one instance with its own data and settings.
Trigger	An inbound channel bound to one agent.
Write posture	Whether an agent's write tool call on an MCP server is allowed, held for approval or denied.