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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.
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.