Glossary

Pane — one window on the canvas: an agent, terminal, browser, board, player, or tool. Panes drag, resize, minimize, and persist.
Workspace — a named canvas of panes with its own layout, drawings, styling, and on-disk folder. You can keep several and switch from the top chrome.
Canvas — the infinite surface panes live on. Drag empty space to pan; use the minimap or Pane Compass to jump.
Agent pane — a window driving a real coding-agent CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and friends) on your machine.
Hermes — the in-app orchestrator: give it a goal and it plans tasks and routes them to your agents. Its window is the Ninja pane.
Ninja — the operator persona inside Mastery HQ; also the name of Hermes’ pane.
Command bar — the input at the bottom of the screen. It runs commands (“tidy”), routes tasks (“tell Alex to run the tests”), and takes dictation.
Recipe — a saved snapshot of a layout (which panes, where, with what styling) you can reapply later.
Loop — a self-converging run→judge→refine cycle: an agent works, a judge scores it, and it retries until the result is good enough.
Session (agent) — a resumable CLI conversation. A linked agent pane remembers context across messages and app restarts.
Working notes — a per-agent markdown file the agent curates itself; injected as memory on future runs.
Compaction — summarizing a long agent conversation into a handoff so a fresh session starts with the essentials instead of a full context window.
Project memory — a per-workspace project.md of durable facts that rides along with every Hermes-routed task.
Attachment — an image saved into the workspace and handed to an agent with a task (“here’s the mockup, build it”).
Streaming Mode — the on-stream safety mode: secret-shaped strings render masked, layouts switch, and OBS/Streamlabs integrations arm.
Sprint Board / Kanban — the card board; cards can be assigned and dispatched to agents.
Backlog — the idea list; any idea can be promoted to its own board.
Minimap / Pane Compass — the small overview widgets for navigating a busy canvas.
Recipe card — the pane that shows a saved recipe and applies it.
Audit Log — the running record of everything that happened: pane events, commands, agent runs.