# Glossary

> The words memex uses, in one place.

Page: https://docs.memex.tools/glossary

| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| **Agent** | The default role of a connection: everything it writes waits for you. |
| **Allowance** | On memex.tools, the hourly and daily limit on search and descriptions for one knowledge base. Lifted for any section on your own key. |
| **Backlink** | A note that links to this one. |
| **Connection** | One assistant or agent that can reach your knowledge base, with a name, an icon, a role, and a record of when it last called in. |
| **Curator** | The role whose precise edits and new notes apply without review. Granted only by you. |
| **Description** | The two or three sentences that say what a note holds. Called `summary` in the tools. |
| **Embedding** | The vector that makes a note findable by meaning. |
| **Flag** | Your request that the next curation pass look at a note, with a comment. |
| **Handle** | The twelve-character code in every address of your knowledge base. |
| **Held** | A proposed edit, delete, merge or report waiting in your inbox. |
| **Live-state** | The tag that asks every assistant reading a note to correct it if its own work made the note wrong. |
| **MCP** | The standard assistants use to reach tools. memex is an MCP server. |
| **Operator** | In memex's replies to assistants, you: the owner of the knowledge base, at a browser. It does not mean the people who run memex.tools. |
| **Patch** | An edit expressed as find-and-replace operations anchored on the note's text. |
| **Pending** | A note an assistant created that you have not yet approved. |
| **Profile** | The note tagged `user-profile`: your own account of who you are and how you want to be answered, named to every assistant when it connects. |
| **Proposal** | Anything an assistant files that waits for your decision. |
| **Skill** | A verified note tagged `skill`, served to every assistant as instructions it can load when a job matches. Six ship with memex and are not notes. |
| **Tombstone** | What remains of a deleted note after its content is purged. |
| **Verified** | A note you wrote, approved or imported, or a curator created. |
| **Wiki-link** | `[[Title]]` in a note body. |

## Related

- [How a note works](https://docs.memex.tools/how-notes-work): What a note holds, how links and backlinks resolve, what is recorded about it, and the ways a note arrives.
- [How the review gate works](https://docs.memex.tools/review-gate): What happens to new notes, edits, reports, deletes and merges an assistant files, and the one role that skips part of it.
- [How roles work](https://docs.memex.tools/roles): The agent and curator roles in full: what each may do without you, and how the curator role is granted.