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Glossary
Access mode: The safety policy controlling which tools are available. Current modes are read-only, workspace-edit, and full-access.
Active provider: The provider Cassady resolves for the current session after applying config and CLI overrides.
Bundled docs: Markdown files embedded into the binary at build time and installed to ~/.cass/docs. Cassady can read them; writes under this directory are blocked.
Cassady / Cass: The project name is Cassady. The short command is cass; cassady is also installed.
Chat: A persisted conversation with a model for one workspace. Chats are saved under ~/.cass/conversations and can be resumed.
Config root: The ~/.cass directory containing config, conversations, global instructions, and installed docs.
Exact edit: An edit tool replacement where each old_text must match exactly once in the original file before anything is written.
Global instructions: Optional text in ~/.cass/global.md included in new chat system prompts. Cassady follows these instructions when they fit the active request, but they cannot override runtime safety constraints such as access modes, tool denials, approvals, or workspace boundaries.
Model metadata: The models.json entry describing a model id, owning provider, display name, context limits, tool/streaming support, and reasoning behavior.
OpenAI-compatible provider: A provider exposing an API compatible with the OpenAI-style chat/completions behavior Cassady uses.
Provider: A connection definition in providers.json, including id, base URL, API key reference, and optional default model.
Reasoning effort: Runtime setting (off, low, medium, high) used for models with reasoning support. Press Tab while idle to cycle it.
Tool call: A model-requested operation such as ls, read, grep, write, edit, or shell.
Workspace: The launch cwd, either the current directory or the path passed with --cwd. In workspace-edit mode, writes must stay inside this root.