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This page defines the terms used across the Athena docs. Each entry links to the page that covers it in full.

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Platform

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Athena

An enterprise AI analyst that works as a digital team member. It researches the web and your documents, analyzes connected data, drafts documents and presentations, summarizes meetings, and automates recurring work. See Athena & Olympus.

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Olympus

The AI-native analytics and operations platform that Athena runs on. Olympus provides data integration, deployment options, APIs and the applications you work in. See Athena & Olympus.

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Agents and chat

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Agent

A configurable AI assistant with its own tools, knowledge and behavior settings. See Agents.

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Agent Team

A group of agents that work together, with an orchestrator agent delegating tasks to specialist agents. See Agent Teams.

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Persona

A mode that sets how Athena works in a chat. Chat is read-only and fast, Assist (the default) reads and writes in your workspace, and Deep Think handles multi-step reasoning and may use several agents. See Your First Chat.

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Effort Dial

An agent setting that makes the agent spend a minimum amount of time reasoning before it answers. See Agents.

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Tool

A single action an agent can take, such as reading an asset or creating a document. You can turn individual tools on or off for each agent. See Tools.

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Toolkit

A set of related tools for one kind of work, such as documents, spreadsheets, email or browsing. Athena suggests toolkits based on what you have open. See Your First Chat.

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Memories

What an agent remembers from past conversations and feedback, used to improve later responses. See Memories.

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Knowledge and context

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Knowledge Base

Long-term memory that gives agents access to your organization’s information across sessions. See Knowledge Base.

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Workbench

An agent’s active working files for a project or task. They are saved on the agent and stay available in later runs until removed. The Knowledge Base holds general reference material; the Workbench holds what matters for the work at hand. See Workbench.

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Project

A shared workspace that brings together the assets, team members and AI capabilities for one initiative. See Projects.

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Citation

A deep link from an Athena answer to the exact page, timestamp or cell it came from. See Citations & Deep Linking.

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Assets and data

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Asset

Any item in your Athena workspace: a document, spreadsheet, presentation, email, meeting, notebook, file or live asset. See Spaces and Assets.

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Spaces

Athena’s multi-pane workspace for opening, arranging and chatting with several assets side by side. See Spaces and Assets.

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Live Asset

A file or record that stays in an external system such as SharePoint, Google Drive, iManage or Snowflake. Athena fetches it on demand as the signed-in user and keeps no permanent copy. See Live Assets.

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Folder

A nested, hierarchical container for organizing assets. See Asset Organization.

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Collection

A group of related assets, for organizing by theme or project. See Asset Organization.

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Catalog

A connection to an external data source or provider that gives live access to its data. See Asset Organization.

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Automation

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AOP (Agent Operating Procedure)

A reusable AI workflow: a prompt template with input parameters that runs on demand, on a schedule, by email, or through the API and SDK. See AOPs.

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Flow

A no-code workflow built from connected steps in a visual editor, run manually, on a schedule or by email. See Flows.

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Task Studio

Where technical builders run Python scripts as tasks on schedules and event triggers. See Task Studio.

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Trigger

An event that starts an AOP, Flow or task automatically, such as a schedule or an incoming email.

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Applications

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Computer

A governed cloud workspace with a filesystem, terminal, live previews and deployment, where agents and users build and run software. See Computer.

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Inbox

Where you see agent sessions that are waiting for your input or that you follow. See Inbox.

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Athena Sentry

A desktop assistant that captures screen and workspace activity and provides voice assistance. See Athena Sentry.