9. Help
9.3 Glossary
The words of the guide explained simply, from A to Z.
In short
- The words that come up in the guide and the app, explained without taking anything for granted.
From A to Z
- .env
- A text file in the project with settings and secrets (like the database password), one KEY=value line each. It must not go into Git.
- Action
- A named project command, started and stopped from the “Run” section.
- Addition
- In the “From a base” wizard, an extra piece to add to the base (Tailwind, React, a database, tests).
- AI agent
- A command-line assistant that works in the project folder: it reads, edits and runs commands. In the kit: Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Pi.
- API key
- A secret code that lets you use a service (for example an AI model) paying as you go, without a subscription.
- Backup
- A file with the whole content of a database, to put it back as it was.
- Base
- The starting point of a project created with a framework or a CMS: Laravel, Vite, Django, WordPress…
- Clone
- Copy a Git repository to your computer, with all its history.
- Commit
- A save in Git's history: a set of changes with a message.
- Component
- A program the kit can install: a language, an agent, a database, a tool.
- Console (terminal)
- A window where you type commands. The kit's one is PowerShell 7 with the kit's tools; on macOS and Linux, if PowerShell is not installed, it is bash.
- exFAT, FAT32, NTFS
- Disk formats. NTFS (Windows) lets you protect folders; exFAT is read by Windows, macOS and Linux; FAT32 does not accept files over 4 GB.
- Extension
- An add-on for the editor that makes it able to understand a language or do new things.
- Framework
- A ready-made structure for building a type of application (Laravel for PHP sites, Django for Python…).
- GGUF
- The file format of the local models llama.cpp uses: a file (sometimes in parts) with the model's weights compressed according to a “quantization”, for example Q4_K_M.
- Git
- The program that keeps the history of a project's changes.
- GitHub, GitHub CLI
- GitHub is the online service that hosts Git repositories; GitHub CLI (gh) is its command-line program.
- Hash
- A code computed from a file's content: if the file changes by even one byte, the hash changes. It is used to verify that a download is the right one.
- Kit folder
- The folder that contains the Atollo executable, projects and data.
- Local models
- Language models that run on the PC, with no network and no account, with the kit's llama.cpp server. You download them from the AI page, “Local models” pane; Pi and the chat in the browser use them.
- localhost, 127.0.0.1
- The name and address a computer uses to call itself. A name ending in .localhost always leads to this PC.
- MCP (MCP server)
- Model Context Protocol: a standard way to give agents new tools, through a program or a service.
- Minor version
- The first two parts of a version: for PHP 8.4.3 the minor version is 8.4. The kit keeps one folder per minor version.
- Open VSX
- The free extension catalog used by VSCodium.
- PATH
- The list of folders where the system looks for programs when you type a command.
- Path alias
- An address of the site that serves a different folder, for example /media → storage/uploads.
- Pi
- The terminal agent by Earendil (Mario Zechner), the kit's fourth: it works with the local models, with no account, or with a cloud provider chosen with /login.
- Pool
- A web server (Caddy or Apache) shared by several projects, each with its own .localhost name and its own conf.d folder.
- Port
- A number that tells services apart on the same computer: http://localhost:7100 and http://localhost:7101 are two different sites. In the kit each port belongs to one thing only (an action, a pool, a version of a database); 7000-7099 belong to the editor.
- Project
- A folder inside projects. The kit recognizes its type from the files.
- Proxy
- An intermediate server that Internet traffic goes through, common in company networks.
- Push, pull
- Sending commits to the remote repository (push) and receiving them (pull).
- Repository
- A project managed with Git, with its history. It can live on your computer and on GitHub.
- Server profile
- A pool you create on the Web Servers page, with the versions and port you choose.
- Skill
- A written procedure an agent loads when needed, in a folder with a SKILL.md file.
- Token
- A secret code that proves a sign-in already done (GitHub, Claude). For AI models, “token” is also the unit used to count text and usage.
- VirtualHost
- A site inside a web server, recognized by the name you call it with.
- VSCodium
- The free version of Visual Studio Code: the kit's editor.