Glossary

Headmaster uses its own vocabulary. Here's what every term means.

| Term | What it means | | ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Headmaster | The app. The wizard orchestrator. The product itself. | | The Headmaster | The orchestrator role in the Council. The agent that dispatches to specialists. | | Specialist | A pre-configured assistant with a specific role and skill set. | | The Agency | The open catalog of community-contributed skills. Browse, install, remove. | | Founding Skills | The built-in skills every Headmaster agent comes with. | | Your Skills | Skills you've added or authored. | | Open Casting | Skills from the Agency catalog. Community-submitted. | | Work Along | The default mode. Agent asks for approval before every action. | | Run It Yourself | Agent runs without per-action approval but asks before destructive actions. | | Hands-Off | Agent runs without any approval prompts. All actions logged. | | Autopilot | Agent runs on a schedule, 24/7, in Hands-Off mode. | | The Council | Multi-perspective deliberation mode. The orchestrator + specialists working in parallel. | | The Council Chamber | The UI panel showing the parallel work in progress. | | The Schedule | The automated task system. Recurring and one-time scheduled tasks. | | Recurring Schedule | A cron-expression-based schedule. Hidden in the Library, shown as plain language in My Headmaster. | | Keep-awake | The runtime keeps running when the desktop window is closed. | | Catch up | If you miss a scheduled trigger, the agent runs it when the runtime is back. | | Connections | Model providers, API keys, MCP servers, and integrations. PIN-protected. | | Channels | Messaging platforms the agent can be reached on (Telegram, WeChat Work, etc.). | | Headmaster on the Go| The browser-based interface. Phone and remote access. | | My Headmaster | User-facing settings. No PIN. | | Headmaster's Library| Advanced settings. PIN-protected. | | The Sorting Hat | The mascot. Center of the dashboard. | | GCAP shield | The brand mark on every screen. | | PIN gate | The PIN protecting Headmaster's Library. 4-6 digits, bcrypt-hashed locally. | | Your Hires | Custom specialists you've created. | | Hire a Specialist | Create a new custom specialist. | | Edit a Specialist | Modify a specialist's configuration. | | Browse the Agency | Open the Agency catalog modal. | | Add a Skill | Install a new skill on a specialist. | | On the Team | The indicator showing which skills are active in a conversation. | | Departments | Categories in the Agency (Engineering, Research, Design, Operations). | | Documents | The Office toolkit. Generate Decks, Spreadsheets, Reports, PDFs. | | Decks | PowerPoint files. | | Spreadsheets | Excel files. | | Reports | Word documents. | | PDFs | PDF files. | | Preview | The file preview panel. Multi-format. | | File Manager | The file management panel. Auto-organize, batch rename, classify. | | Sort my files | Auto-organize files into subfolders by type and content. | | Rename a batch | Batch rename multiple files with a pattern. | | Runtime | The local background service that runs your agents. | | Local mode | The runtime runs on the same machine as the desktop app. | | Remote mode | The runtime runs on a different machine. | | The runtime status indicator | The sidebar footer icon showing runtime state (Connected / Reconnecting / Disconnected). |