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The terms this guide uses, in one place.

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Term Meaning
App One deployable thing, with a slug, owner, history and address.
App data The one JSON document (up to 256 KiB) each app can read and write.
Base path The /apps/your-slug prefix your app is served under (BASE_PATH).
Deploy key (toftd_) A credential for a pipeline, belonging to no person.
Deployment One deploy, as the Deployments tab lists it. A successful one serves or is a rollback target.
Document app A notebook, Quarto or R Markdown file, rendered at build time.
Editor May deploy and configure an app, but not share it.
Event Something that went wrong without anyone doing it, such as a crash.
Execution mode shared (a process on the install’s machine) or isolated (its own container).
Grant Access to an app for a person or group: list, view or edit.
Job A command your app declares in toft.toml, run in its own process from your app’s deployment, on a schedule or when started. Toft’s one kind of automation.
List access Shows an app in someone’s list without letting them open it.
Lock An administrator’s stop. Only an administrator can lift it.
Personal key (toftu_) A credential that acts as you.
Publisher The role that may create and own apps.
Run One start of a job. It ends once: succeeded, failed, timed out, out of memory, cancelled or skipped.
Sleeping Stopped to save memory; woken by the next request.
Slug The lowercase identifier in your app’s address: letters, digits and hyphens, at most 54 characters.
Viewer The role that may open apps but not create them; also the middle level of a grant.
Visibility Private, authenticated or public — who may reach the app.
Workload The running process or container.