What is an 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.
Where it sits
YAMO's vocabulary is a ladder: a Playbook is the method, a Play is one step inside it, a Service is what other people run, an Instance is one customer's ongoing context against a Service, and a Run is one execution. A Connector is a tool a Playbook declares it needs, and a Connection is the access that satisfies it. A Reference file is a document a Playbook reads while it works.
Instance is one rung of that ladder. The rung next to it is Run.
Why the word matters
One word for one thing. An Instance is the ongoing relationship and a Run is one occasion inside it. An Instance accumulates; a Run starts, finishes and is done.
The longer answer
What is a Runtime Instance? is the page for this one: where it sits, what it is confused with, and a worked example from a real template.
The rest of the ladder
What is a Run?
What a Run is on YAMO: one execution of a Playbook from its trigger to its artifact, and the unit that is metered, receipted and charged for.What is a Connector?
What a Connector is on YAMO: the tool a Playbook declares that it needs, and what changes when you authorise one so that a run can reach it.What is a Connection?
What a Connection is on YAMO: the access you have authorised, which is what lets a run reach a tool a Playbook asked for, on your behalf, when it runs.What is a Reference file?
What a Reference file is on YAMO: a document a Playbook reads while it works, such as your house style, your offer, or the list you keep watch on.What is a Playbook?
What a Playbook is on YAMO: the method an expert captures, written down as a document the runtime follows exactly, every single time it is run.What is a Play?
What a Play is on YAMO: one step inside a Playbook, with its own job, its own inputs and its own share of what the finished artifact contains.Pricing
How YAMO charges: you pay for the runs you make, and nothing for the ones you do not. What a run is, what it includes, and what publishing costs.Who it's for
The six kinds of expert YAMO is built for, and what changes when the method you already follow becomes a Service that somebody else can run.
Read a Playbook that uses it
Every template in the library publishes its contract and a real example output.