Deepthi's Dictionary
Every technical word I met while building, explained like you're new. No jargon, no assumed background, no payment.
AI Agent
An AI agent is an AI that can take steps on your behalf instead of only answering. You give it a goal, and it decides what to do next, uses tools, and keeps going until it is done or stuck.
Explain it to me →EngineeringAPI
An API is the official set of doors another program is allowed to use. It defines exactly what you can ask for and what you get back.
Explain it to me →SecurityOAuth
OAuth is how you let an app act for you without giving it your password. You approve specific permissions, and the app gets a limited token instead.
Explain it to me →AIMCP
MCP is a shared standard for connecting AI assistants to outside tools and data, so each new integration is not invented from scratch.
Explain it to me →AIConnector
A connector is a ready-made link between an AI product and a service like Gmail, Slack or Drive, so the AI can read from it and act in it.
Explain it to me →AIPlugin
A plugin bundles capabilities — skills, connectors, MCP servers — into one installable package so a workflow can be reused.
Explain it to me →AIPrompt
A prompt is the instruction you give the model. It is not magic words — it is context, constraints and the shape of the answer you want.
Explain it to me →AICodex
Codex is a coding agent: it works on real code in a sandboxed environment, proposing and running changes under an approval policy.
Explain it to me →EngineeringDeployment
Deployment is the moment your project stops living on your machine and starts living on the internet where other people can reach it.
Explain it to me →SecurityRow Level Security
Row Level Security is a database rule that decides, row by row, who is allowed to see or change data — enforced by the database itself.
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