AI Agent Integration Platforms Glossary: Key Terms & Concepts

An audit trail is a step-by-step sequential record that offers evidence of a financial transaction's documented history back to its source. With the use of the audit trail, an auditor can ...read more

The approval workflow is a standard corporate procedure in which data must be signed off at a given point. Approval procedures necessitate various checks from a range of stakeholders throu...read more

A webhook (also known as a web callback or HTTP push API) allows a programme to send real-time data to other apps. A webhook sends data to other apps as it happens, so you can get it right...read more

API integration is a feature that allows different software systems, platforms, or applications to seamlessly communicate with each other. It enables the exchange of data, functionality, a...read more

Authentication is a crucial feature of modern software that enables users to securely access and use various applications and resources. It provides a mechanism for verifying the identity ...read more

Credential management is an essential aspect of software functionality that enables accurate management and control over user authentication and access privileges. This feature provides a ...read more

Caps how many requests a given client, IP address or API key may make within a time window, and rejects or delays anything beyond it. It blunts brute-force attempts and scraping, and prote...read more

A language model is given descriptions of the functions or tools available to it and, when a request needs one, returns a structured call naming the function and its arguments instead of p...read more

Self-hosting means the software runs inside infrastructure you control rather than the vendor, usually from an open-source build, a container image or a licensed enterprise package. For a...read more

Managed OAuth means the platform runs the sign-in handshake with each third-party application for you: it holds the client registrations, shows the consent screen, exchanges the code, and ...read more

A connector catalog is the set of applications a platform already speaks to, with the actions and data each one exposes written out and ready to call. It is worth reading by name rather t...read more

Agent identity gives each agent a credential of its own, separate from any person and from the other agents, so its access can be scoped, reviewed and withdrawn on its own. It answers the...read more

A token vault stores the credentials an agent needs for other systems, encrypted and separated per customer, and attaches them to an outgoing request at the moment the call is made. The p...read more

Per-user authorization means every call an agent makes runs under the identity of the person it is working for, with exactly the access that person already had in the connected application...read more

MCP server hosting runs Model Context Protocol servers for you and serves them at a stable address, so an agent can reach them without anyone operating a process. Hosted servers are where...read more