Glossary

Space
A shared collaboration unit containing documents, members, and resources.

Workspace
Product-level term for a private collaboration group; currently modeled by spaces and their associated content, members, and permissions.

Topic
A node in the space tree. Can contain content and sub-topics.

Document
The editable content attached to a topic.

Page
The main navigable note or document unit inside a workspace.

Blob
An attachment (PDF, image, etc.), content-addressed by hash.

Daemon
The local backend process handling networking, storage, and permissions.

soma-daemon
The desktop peer/daemon binary (libp2p peer + local Unix socket API; no Axum).

soma-botd
The server peer/bot binary (libp2p peer + Axum control plane + metrics).

soma-relayd
The relay service binary (libp2p Circuit Relay + Axum + metrics).

soma-rendezvousd
The rendezvous service binary (libp2p Rendezvous discovery + Axum + metrics).

soma-bffd
The LLM BFF service binary (Axum + metrics; the only backend not using libp2p).

soma-agentd
An optional desktop-only companion process for local automation / helpers; does not own the peer identity.

PeerId
Cryptographic identity of a device.

Capability
A signed token granting permissions in a space.

Model Feature Hint
Local desktop metadata describing whether an AI model is suitable for chat, embedding, tool use, or image work. These hints do not grant any space permissions.

MembershipCapability
Grants a peer access to a space.

Role
The human-facing access level inside a space, such as Owner, Editor, Viewer, Member, or Bot.

IssuerCapability
Delegates authority from an owner to a bot or trusted member.

Bot
A non-human space member that can cache content, serve content, organize resources, or run approved automation depending on its granted capabilities.

Delegated Approver
A peer that has been explicitly delegated authority to approve memberships for a space. A delegated approver may be a bot, but bot membership alone does not grant this authority.

Relay
A connectivity service that forwards encrypted traffic.

Rendezvous
A discovery service helping peers find each other.

Mailbox
A bot-backed queue for delivering approvals asynchronously.

Tapia
Focused training companion app for typing practice, short passages, generated drills, and session feedback.

Soma
The main structured note-taking and workspace application in the platform.