Glossary
Key terms, defined simply.
Short, clear definitions for the vocabulary used across AOPX and the agent-economy stack.
Glossary
Key terms, defined simply.
- MCP
- Model Context Protocol — an open standard letting AI agents call external tools and services.
- x402
- An emerging protocol for machine-to-machine, per-request payments over HTTP.
- Vendor Memory
- The record AOPX keeps of how a provider actually performed across past requests.
- Routing / Contextual routing
- Choosing which provider to call for a given request, based on constraints such as latency, cost or region.
- Holdout
- A set of fresh missions never seen before, used to test a policy honestly rather than backtest it.
- Evidence ID
- A unique, verifiable identifier attached to a benchmark run, linked to a content hash.