lAItest / AI field guide · edition 2026-09-26
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Plain-English definitions for the concepts, patterns, protocols, and tools behind modern AI work.
414 defined terms · 16 topic areas · 50 essentials
Tools & ecosystem terms
44 matching terms.
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Tool · Tools & ecosystem
AWS services for operating and integrating agents, including managed runtime capabilities.
- AutoGen Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A Microsoft-originated framework for agent applications and multi-agent interaction.
- BMAD Method Tool · Tools & ecosystem
An AI-assisted development methodology organized around roles, planning artifacts, and workflows.
- Claude Agent SDK Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Programmatic tooling for building agent applications using capabilities associated with Claude Code.
- Claude Code Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Anthropic's coding-agent environment with repository tools and project instructions.
- Codex Tool · Tools & ecosystem
OpenAI coding-agent tooling; distinguish the application and harness from the specific model used.
- CrewAI Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A framework for role-based agent collaboration and structured flows.
- Cursor Tool · Tools & ecosystem
An AI-oriented code editor with assistance and agent workflows.
- Deep Agents Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A LangChain agent harness combining planning, filesystem access, subagents, and context-management facilities.
- Diffusers Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Hugging Face tooling for diffusion and related generative-model pipelines.
- DSPy Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A framework for programming and optimizing language-model pipelines against chosen metrics.
- GitHub Copilot Tool · Tools & ecosystem
GitHub's AI coding assistance and agent-oriented development tooling.
- GitHub Spec Kit Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A toolkit for specification-driven development artifacts and workflows.
- Google ADK Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Google's Agent Development Kit for building agent applications and workflows.
- GSD Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Get Shit Done: a context-management and structured-development system for coding agents.
- Hermes Agent Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Nous Research's agent system incorporating tools, persistent memory, and reusable skills.
- Hugging Face Transformers Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A library for model implementations, loading, inference, and training.
- json-render Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A framework for rendering model-produced structured UI through constrained component catalogs.
- Kiro Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Development tooling with explicit requirements, design, and task-oriented workflows.
- LangChain Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A library ecosystem for model integrations, tools, and agent application abstractions.
- Langfuse Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Open-source observability and evaluation tooling for language-model applications.
- LangGraph Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Stateful graph-based orchestration with persistence and controlled workflow execution.
- LangSmith Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Tooling for tracing, evaluation, and agent application development and operations.
- llama.cpp Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A C/C++ inference project supporting efficient local execution of compatible model formats.
- LlamaIndex Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Data ingestion, indexing, retrieval, and knowledge-oriented AI application tooling.
- Microsoft Agent Framework Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Microsoft's framework for agent applications and orchestrated workflows.
- Ollama Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Tooling for running and managing supported language models through local interfaces and APIs.
- OpenAI Agents SDK Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A library for agents, tools, handoffs, and execution tracing.
- OpenClaw Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A personal-assistant system integrating tools, sessions, channels, and automation.
- OpenSpec Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A specification-centered workflow for proposing and implementing software changes with AI assistants.
- PEFT library Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Hugging Face tooling for parameter-efficient model adaptation.
- pgvector Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A PostgreSQL extension for storing vectors and performing similarity searches.
- Pi Tool · Tools & ecosystem
An agent toolkit that includes model interfaces, agent execution components, and a coding-agent interface.
- Playwright Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A browser automation and testing library used to verify real application behavior.
- Promptfoo Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Tooling for prompt and application evaluations and security-oriented testing.
- Qdrant Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A vector search system with filtering and hybrid-retrieval capabilities.
- Semantic Kernel Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A Microsoft SDK for integrating models, tools, and AI-oriented orchestration.
- SGLang Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A model-serving system with optimized inference and scheduling capabilities.
- Strands Agents Tool · Tools & ecosystem
An AWS-originated SDK for building model-driven agents with tools.
- Superpowers Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A skills-based collection of software-development workflows for coding agents.
- TRL Tool · Tools & ecosystem
Hugging Face tooling for supervised and preference or reinforcement-learning post-training.
- Vercel AI SDK Tool · Tools & ecosystem
TypeScript tooling for model integration, streaming, tools, and AI application interfaces.
- vLLM Tool · Tools & ecosystem
A model inference and serving engine focused on efficient execution and throughput.
- Windsurf Tool · Tools & ecosystem
An AI-oriented development environment with code assistance and agent workflows.
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- Agents & architecture 23 — Who decides, what executes, and where control lives.
- Goals, specs & plans 23 — Describe the outcome before delegating the implementation.
- Loops, critics & adversaries 33 — Understand how work is challenged, repaired, and stopped.
- Multi-agent coordination 21 — Delegation, ownership, context boundaries, and aggregation.
- Context & memory 29 — What the model sees now, and what persists for later.
- Tools & output contracts 20 — Model proposals become validated, authorized operations.
- Protocols & interoperability 19 — Name the boundary: tools, agents, editors, or interfaces.
- Coding-agent internals 25 — Instructions, skills, hooks, tools, and durable artifacts.
- Retrieval & knowledge 31 — Find evidence, rank it, and preserve source boundaries.
- Evals & observability 29 — Measure outcomes and inspect the execution path.
- Inference & performance 28 — Latency, throughput, compute, and memory are different constraints.
- Models, reasoning & training 36 — Separate weight changes from context and inference-time work.
- Security & reliability 27 — Make privileges explicit and side effects recoverable.
- Generative UI & voice 18 — The interaction layer has its own contracts and timing.
- Generative & physical AI 8 — Broader model families beyond text-based assistants.
- Tools & ecosystem 44 — Recognize the role before choosing the dependency.