MICROSOFT AGENT FRAMEWORK · 0.16.0-rc.1
Glossary
FR/EN terminology and concept index linked to course mechanisms.
Objectives
- Find a term and its equivalent.
Terms and concepts
Each term links to the chapter developing its mechanism and limits. Identifiers are shared between languages; translation preserves distinctions between session, facts, resumption, decision and effect.
agent
Reasoning and tools within a controlled execution
French equivalent: agent
host
Application responsible for controls and effects
French equivalent: hôte
typed workflow
Explicit graph of messages and transitions
French equivalent: workflow typé
superstep
Graph-runtime progression boundary; it is neither a single business step nor a SQLite transaction.
French equivalent: superstep
session
Identified conversation history and state, restorable through the application format; not an authenticated identity.
French equivalent: session
fact memory
Canonical facts managed separately from history
French equivalent: mémoire de faits
checkpoint
Workflow state persisted at a defined boundary to resume the runtime; separate from decision and business effect.
French equivalent: point de reprise
injected context
Information presented to the model for this call
French equivalent: contexte injecté
embedding
Dense vector computed by an embedding model
French equivalent: plongement vectoriel
cosine similarity
Vector measure distinct from a probability
French equivalent: similarité cosinus
retrieval
Selection of eligible passages from the corpus
French equivalent: recherche de passages
grounding
Support for an answer from identified sources
French equivalent: ancrage dans les sources
evidence
Verifiable item under the relevant contract
French equivalent: preuve
citation
Literal passage linked to a retrieved eligible source
French equivalent: citation
canonical source
Reference source selected by corpus policy
French equivalent: source canonique
reciprocal rank fusion
Rank fusion without equating underlying scores
French equivalent: fusion par rang réciproque
actionability
Business validation distinct from structurally valid analysis
French equivalent: aptitude à autoriser l’action
approval
Authorization with explicit scope and persistence
French equivalent: approbation
durable decision
Persisted decision bound to an operation and exact draft
French equivalent: décision durable
idempotency
Controlled replay preserving business-effect identity
French equivalent: idempotence
harness
Host environment composing agent, capabilities and per-run budgets; it replaces neither an OS sandbox nor durability.
French equivalent: harness
execution scope
Shared controls for one run rather than a durable business key
French equivalent: portée d’exécution
tool attempt
Attempt reserved before invoking the guarded body
French equivalent: tentative d’outil
deadline
Time bound with cooperative cancellation
French equivalent: échéance
prompt injection
Untrusted instructions introduced through data
French equivalent: injection de prompt
MCP discovery
Obtaining the schema without implicit execution permission
French equivalent: découverte MCP
stream frame
Transported unit preserving status and content
French equivalent: trame de flux
terminal state
Explicit outcome distinct from an interrupted stream
French equivalent: état terminal
provider usage
Provider-returned counts, possibly absent or partial; do not replace missing values with zero.
French equivalent: usage fournisseur
estimate
Approximation distinct from measured usage
French equivalent: estimation
business journal
Persistent record of decisions and reread effects
French equivalent: journal métier
deterministic fixture
Controlled scenario without proof of model quality
French equivalent: fixture déterministe
candidate
Model evaluated without access to expected answers
French equivalent: candidat
judge
Evaluator requiring calibration separately from the candidate
French equivalent: juge
qualification
Decision based on protocol, results and independent review for a specific use; not established for the default profile.
French equivalent: qualification
baseline
Direct comparison including auxiliary-call cost
French equivalent: référence de comparaison
schema
Expected structure and types; by itself it validates neither business rules nor permission to write.
French equivalent: schéma
tool call
Structured invocation request; the host still checks name, arguments and permission.
French equivalent: appel d’outil
allowlist
Explicit host-admitted capabilities, distinct from the discovered catalog or tools described to a model.
French equivalent: liste autorisée
index manifest
Metadata binding corpus, embedding model, dimensions and version; incompatibility requires explicit rebuilding.
French equivalent: manifeste d’index
document chunk
Indexed passage with identity and provenance; its exact text can become a checked quotation.
French equivalent: fragment documentaire
eligibility
Source, date and scope policy applied before ranking; high similarity cannot replace it.
French equivalent: admissibilité
provenance
Verifiable connection between content, source, revision and evidence; retain versions during adaptation.
French equivalent: provenance
cooperative cancellation
Signal propagated to participating operations; it cannot erase an already committed effect.
French equivalent: annulation coopérative
correlation
Identity connecting observations of one operation; the link does not make them an atomic transaction.
French equivalent: corrélation
NDJSON
One JSON value per line; embedded string newlines are escaped and network reads have arbitrary size.
French equivalent: NDJSON
judge calibration
Checking a judge against controlled positive and negative cases; failure blocks subsequent acceptance.
French equivalent: calibration du juge
effect readback
Reading persisted business state after a command, separately from generated prose or network acknowledgement.
French equivalent: relecture de l’effet
session snapshot
Versioned serialized state for restoring a session; distinct from a business journal and canonical fact memory.
French equivalent: instantané de session
incomplete execution
Termination without satisfying the host success condition; it is not an authorized business answer.
French equivalent: exécution incomplète