The words used

Narrator. Every word this edition explains, in one place, each with the chapter where it is first explained. Nothing here is new: each line is the book's own.

• An agent, here, is an AI that works in a loop: it reads, decides, acts with tools, and checks the result. (chapter 1)
• The board is a folder per member of its own work, sorted into open, blocked and done. (chapter 6)
• The build turns the project's files into the site. (chapter 3)
• The check (the team called it the gate) runs before every change goes out, and refuses the change if anything on its list fails. (chapter 3)
• A commit is one saved change to a repository, with a time and a short message saying what changed. (chapter 3)
• The conductor is the agent that keeps the team's time and plan. (chapter 2)
• A debrief is the short note an agent writes at the end of each wake. (chapter 5)
• A follow-up is a wake a member starts itself, to finish something. (chapter 7)
• To freeze something is the same idea as a lock, said in a hurry: nobody touches it until it is unfrozen. (chapter 10)
• A handover is the note one session leaves for the session that takes its place. (chapter 13)
• A hold is one short file that stops every agent until the person in charge says go. (chapter 2)
• To lock a part is to mark it final, so that no agent may change it again. (chapter 10)
• The mailroom is a folder per member where others leave it letters. (chapter 6)
• The player is the part of the talk's site that let me press play on stage. (chapter 1)
• A repository is the project's folder, with its whole history kept. (chapter 3)
• A reviewer is a second agent that reads the plan before the work and the result after it. (chapter 5)
• A member's scope is the list of files and folders it may change. (chapter 4)
• A session is one agent's working life: the conversation it runs in, from its first instruction to its last. (chapter 13)
• A trigger is what starts a wake. (chapter 7)
• A wake is one turn of work by one agent, on its own clock. (chapter 5)
• A wake record is the file each wake leaves behind, with every step's verdict and a sentence on why. (chapter 5)
• A Wardley map is a picture that shows what something depends on and how settled each part is. (chapter 5)

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Where this came from

The word boxes of this edition, gathered, with three lines reworded to stand alone (commit, follow-up, Wardley map) and no meaning changed.