Glossary
The terms Breno uses, in alphabetical order, each with a link to where it is explained.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Audit log | An append-only record of security-relevant actions in a workspace. The database refuses edits and deletes to it. See Audit log. |
| Bundle | The bundle.json manifest at the center of an export, listing every item and its metadata. See Export format. |
| Capture | Getting something into Breno: an upload, a note, a link, voice, a photo, a meeting, or a synced source. See Capture knowledge. |
| Citation | A numbered pointer from an answer to the passage it was built from. |
| Coin | The unit Breno is paid for in. See Billing and coins. |
| Connection | One authorized link between a workspace and a source app. |
| Decision | A recorded choice with who made it, when, and what it rested on. See Memory and decisions. |
| Entity | A person, project, product or other thing Breno recognizes in your items, and which relationships connect. |
| Evidence | The retrieved passages an answer is built from. |
| Export job | A background build of an export archive. It stays available for seven days. |
| Item | One piece of knowledge: a file, note, link, meeting or synced record. |
| MCP | The Model Context Protocol. See MCP server. |
| Memory | What Breno understands from your items: decisions, entities, relationships and a timeline. |
| Only me | A visibility that makes an item readable only by the person who owns it. |
| Provenance | Where an item came from: the source, the author, the dates, and a link to the original. |
| RLS | Row-level security: the database-level rule that scopes every query to one workspace. |
| Scope | What a personal token is allowed to do: read, ask, export or write. See Authentication. |
| Sensitivity | A label (public, internal, confidential, restricted) that limits who can read an item. |
| Source | A connected tool Breno reads from, such as Slack or Google Drive. |
| Space | A group of items with its own members, used to limit who can read them. |
| Supersede | To replace a decision or record with a newer one while keeping the older one visible as replaced. |
| Time travel | Reading the memory graph as it stood on a past date. |
| Token | A personal credential (sirmx_mcp_…) for the REST API and the MCP server. See Tokens. |
| Trash | Where deleted items wait for 30 days before they can be purged. See Versions and trash. |
| Version | An earlier text of an item, kept when the item is edited or changes at its source. |
| Workspace | Your organization's isolated area of Breno. |