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YAMOYAMO

Glossary

One word for one thing. These six are the ladder YAMO is built on, in the order they build on each other rather than in alphabetical order.

Playbook
A Playbook is the method an expert captures — how a piece of work gets done, written down as a document the YAMO runtime follows exactly.
Play
A Play is one step inside a Playbook: a single named job, with what it reads, what it does and what it hands to the step after it.
Service
A Service is the thing that gets run. It exists from the moment its definition is created, as a Draft Service; Deploy makes it runnable and Publish makes it public.
Instance
An Instance is one customer's ongoing context against a Service: their setup, their connected tools, their files and their run history, held apart from everyone else's.
Run
A Run is one execution of a Playbook, from what started it to the artifact it returns. It is the unit YAMO meters, receipts and charges for.
Connector
A Connector is a tool a Playbook declares it needs. Authorising one creates a Connection — the binding that lets a run actually reach that tool on your behalf.
Connection
A Connection is access you have authorised. It is what turns a Connector, which is a requirement written in a Playbook, into a tool a run can actually reach.
Reference file
A Reference file is a document a Playbook reads while it works. Your reference files live together in your Knowledge Vault, which is the container they sit in.