> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.sumvin.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Glossary

> Every public Sumvin term, defined by what it does.

## Terms

### Agent

Software that acts for you, such as Claude or ChatGPT.

### Agent identity

One connection's own identity under your Sigil. Every connection gets one. You can disconnect each one on its own. See [Agent identities](/concepts/agent-identities).

### Approval page

The Sumvin page where you read and sign a Stamped Mandate, including an errand's bounds before it searches. It opens in your own browser, and you sign there with your passkey. Your agent can give you the link; it can't sign there.

### CLI

The `sumvin` command-line tool, for developers building and experimenting on Sumvin. The connector is the recommended way to use Sumvin. See [Install the CLI](/get-started/cli/install).

### Coming soon

Not available yet, including in this preview. Payments are coming soon, in a fast-follow release. One of the three status labels in these docs.

### Connector

Sumvin added to an AI assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT. The recommended way to use Sumvin. See [Connect your agent](/get-started/connect).

### Counterparty

Anyone your agent deals with: a merchant, a service or another agent. A counterparty can check a Stamped Mandate your agent presents.

### Disconnect

Stop honouring one agent identity. Your other agents and your Sigil are unaffected. Mandates that agent asked for stay valid until they expire or you revoke them.

### Envoy

Sumvin's money agent. Your agent creates an errand; Envoy runs it, inside the limits of your Stamped Mandates. See [Envoy](/concepts/envoy).

### Errand

A standing purchase: a long-running purchase task that runs under a Stamped Mandate and goes ahead only when your terms are met. You ask, you sign its bounds, then Sumvin searches, checks the merchant, watches for your conditions, and settles. One pre-authorised mandate can back many errands. See [Errands](/concepts/errands).

### Live

Available to everyone. One of the three status labels in these docs.

### Pre-authorised

A mode in which one signature covers several matching errands, within its mandate and the conditions you set. The default is to sign each errand's bounds before it searches; a match within them is then bought without asking you again.

### Private preview

Rolling out. It may not be available on your account yet. One of the three status labels in these docs.

### Repeat errand

An errand you want done more than once, running in pre-authorised mode. See [Repeat errands](/guides/repeat-errands).

### Revoke

Permanently withdraw a Stamped Mandate. Anything relying on it stops, including errands using it.

### Sigil

Your proof of personhood: a verified identity for you and your agents. Your agents carry it as proof that a real, verified person stands behind them. See [Sigil](/concepts/sigil).

### Stamped Mandate

A signed authorisation that says what an agent may do for you: sharing data, proving who it acts for, or spending, each with the limits you set. Sumvin's own object: not an AP2 mandate or a card-network mandate. See [Stamped Mandates](/concepts/stamped-mandates).

### Verification

Proving who you are, once: your phone number, then your identity. It is what your Sigil is issued on. See [Verify your identity](/get-started/first/verify).

## Technical note

<Info>
  Two renames are underway; the objects are the same.

  A Stamped Mandate was previously called a PINT (purchase-intent token). The old name still appears in some wire names and SDK types, in the current CLI command group `sumvin pint`, and in two MCP tools, `pint_query` and `pint_revoke`.

  An Errand was previously called an IPA (Intelligent Purchase Authorization). The old name may still appear in some wire paths and SDK types.
</Info>


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