Glossary

Term Definition
Agent A self-contained program that runs in a WASM sandbox
AXIS Agent eXchange Identity & Security — trust verification protocol
Broker Routes tasks to the most cost-effective handler
Compensation An undo action for a saga step
Durable Objects Cloudflare's stateful edge storage
Edge Cloudflare Workers deployment for global low-latency
Fuel WASM CPU budget — prevents infinite loops
naos The Nexus OS CLI binary
One-for-all Supervisor strategy: restart all children when one fails
One-for-one Supervisor strategy: restart only the failed child
Pool A group of identical agents processing tasks in parallel
Rest-for-one Supervisor strategy: restart failed child and all after it
Saga Multi-step transaction with automatic rollback
Skill A pre-built handler for common tasks (no LLM needed)
Supervisor Monitors agents and restarts them on failure
Trust Tier T1-T5 rating of agent trustworthiness
WASM WebAssembly — sandboxed execution environment
Workflow Sequential data pipeline where output feeds next input