Glossary

Workshop - your team's OpenX space, where workbenches come together. The team scale of the Fathym family (fai is the personal workbench).

Workbench - a capability in OpenX. Built-in ones ship in the box; you can host your own.

Node - an instance on the canvas (from the Node Bank) - a connection, surface, simulator, or warm query you drag and wire.

Connection - where your data enters the workshop (simulator, live device, database, or API Source).

API Source - a native node that polls a third-party REST API on a schedule.

Surface - the scoped workspace (execution boundary) where queries run and your team's AI connects.

Warm query - a named, saved query. Saving it makes it an API endpoint and an MCP tool at once.

Shared source of truth - a warm query everyone's AI builds from; one good answer, used everywhere.

Proposal - a change (new connection/surface/query) drafted by Azi or any AI for a human to accept. Carries an Origin (azi or human).

manage_proposals - the MCP tool any AI uses to propose. There is no accept tool over MCP - acceptance stays human, in the portal.

MCP - the Model Context Protocol; the open standard that lets any AI read your sources of truth and propose new ones. OpenX's server: https://openx.fathym.com/oi-api/mcp.

The three ways - you drive the one workshop your way: by hand on the canvas, with Azi, or with any AI you bring over MCP (including a local model).

Azi - your MCP-native assistant - the same server any AI uses.

Access rights - who can read and who can accept, scoped to the workshop or a single surface.

Compounding intelligence - the workshop grows as you crystallize more and add teammates; nothing is lost.

Hosting workbench - build a workbench, host it as an MCP server, share it with fai mcp @name.

Bearer JWT - the token every /oi-api call carries. Generate under APIs -> API Keys, scope it, and it expires. See Auth & Tokens.

Access rights / scopes - what a token can do. Request a subset for least privilege; a token never exceeds your own rights.

OpenAPI spec - the machine-readable list of your endpoints at GET /oi-api/openapi, filtered to your access rights.

Ad-hoc query - a one-off KQL query (POST /oi-api/warm-queries) for trying an idea before you save it as a warm query.

Cold-data export - a download of historical rows from a connection or surface (POST /oi-api/downloads/...); large exports page and cap at 25,000 rows.

Live stream / change feed - real-time feeds: live data over a WebSocket (/oi-api/live-stream) and workspace changes over SSE (/oi-api/eac-changes/stream).

Change history - the record of every change and correction (who, what, when, why). See Ship with Confidence.

Activate to Deploy - building is free; deploying (going live as an API + MCP tool) needs a plan. Until you pick one, the Deploy button reads "Activate to Deploy." See Get a Workspace.

Plans - Standard (shared cloud), Pro (managed private runtime), and Sovereign (bring your own cloud). See current pricing at openx.fathym.com.