> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.voiceflow.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Voiceflow glossary

> What each term in Voiceflow means, grouped the same way the documentation is, with every entry linking to the page that explains it in full.

Forty-eight terms, filed the same way the documentation is, so a word you meet
while building is defined where you would look for it.

Every entry links to the page that explains it properly. This glossary orients
you; it is not a second source of truth.

## The shape of things

A **workspace** holds **projects**. One project owns exactly one **agent**. An
agent is built from playbooks and workflows, calls tools, reads a knowledge
base, and ships through environments.

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  Workspace, project and agent: the three containers everything else sits inside.
</Card>

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  Playbooks, workflows, steps, tools, and the two prompt layers that shape every turn.
</Card>

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  What an agent reads from and writes to: the knowledge base, variables and secrets.
</Card>

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  Environments, publishing, merging and traffic splits: how a change reaches real users.
</Card>

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  Transcripts, evaluations, tests and credits: reading back what an agent did.
</Card>

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  Tokens, traces, the CLI and MCP: the vocabulary for driving Voiceflow over HTTP.
</Card>

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  Model, token, RAG, embedding and grounding: industry terms as these docs use them.
</Card>

<Note>
  Capitalisation carries meaning here. "Agent step" and "Function step" name
  specific steps; the bare words *step* and *tool* stay lowercase.
</Note>
