Glossary
A plain-English dictionary of the words you'll see across Operum. No jargon, no assumptions — just what each term means and why it matters.
Core Concepts
The seven ideas that everything else builds on.
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Agent | A specialized AI teammate that handles one kind of work — planning, coding, testing, and so on. Your Operum team is a group of these agents working together. |
| PM (Project Manager) | The lead agent and the one you talk to. It takes your requests, breaks them into work, and coordinates the other agents. |
| Pipeline | The step-by-step path every task follows from idea to finished — like an assembly line (design → build → test → review → done). |
| Issue | A single piece of work: a feature to build, a bug to fix, or a task to do. Everything starts as an issue. |
| Pull Request (PR) | A finished change waiting for approval before it becomes part of the live product — a "ready for sign-off" package. |
| Merge | Approving a Pull Request so its change goes live in the product. |
| Label | A tag on an issue that shows its current stage (e.g. "ready for dev", "in testing") and which agent owns it. |
More Terms
Other words that come up as you work with your team.
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Backlog | The list of work that's been captured but not started yet. |
| Turbo Mode | When on, agents proactively push work forward without waiting for you to prompt each step. |
| Auto-Merge | When on, approved-and-tested changes merge automatically — no manual sign-off needed. |
| QA (Quality Assurance) | The testing stage where a QA agent checks a change works before it can ship. |
| Branch / Worktree | A private workspace where an agent makes changes without affecting the live product or other agents. |
| Knowledge Base | The team's shared memory: project facts, decisions, and context that all agents can read. |
| Founder | You — the human owner who sets direction and approves key decisions. |
| Handoff | When one agent finishes its part and passes the work to the next agent in the pipeline. |