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Terms are listed alphabetically. Where a term has a deeper home in the docs, the entry links to it.

Agent

The AI process that drives a Vibely build session. One agent per project; it holds the full conversation, project state, and tool access.

Animated deck

A pitch deck with motion built in — slide transitions, animated reveals, scroll-driven storytelling. A Design Mode surface. See Design overview.

Animation

A standalone motion design — hero animations, loading states, micro-interactions. A Design Mode surface. Animations can be attached to Web or App designs on the same canvas. See Design overview.

Artboard

See Canvas.

Canvas

The infinite workspace in Design Mode where designs live side by side. Designs accumulate on the canvas as you generate them — nothing overwrites anything. See Canvas.

Compaction

When a long chat approaches its context limit, older messages are summarised and dropped to make room for new ones. Memory survives compaction; the chat history does not.

Connector

An integration with a third-party service (Slack, Linear, Stripe, Notion, etc.). Vibely ships 40+ connectors plus first-party integrations like GitHub and Supabase. See Connectors.

Credits

The unit of usage in Vibely. Credits cover model calls, sandbox compute, storage, and connector calls. See Plans and credits.

Custom instructions

Persistent context attached to your account that the agent reads on every turn. Holds facts about you — stack preferences, tone, name. See Custom instructions.

DESIGN.md

An auto-generated design-system document (colours, typography, components) extracted from your designs. Hand it to a developer, paste into AI context, or use as living documentation. See DESIGN.md.

Design Mode

A Vibely mode for visualising ideas before committing to building. Five surfaces: web, app, slides, animation, animated deck. Click Make it real to turn a design into a working project. See Design overview.

Iterate

To refine a project through multiple turns. The bulk of work in Vibely happens in iteration. See Iterating.

Live preview

The URL where your project’s running app is served — <id>.vibelyagent.com. Updates instantly with every turn. The development companion to a published URL.

Make it real

The Design Mode action that turns a generated design into a working project. Right-click any design → Make it real to spin up a fresh Web App or Mobile App project with the design as the starting code. See Design overview.

Memory

A persistent file at .vibely/memory.md that the agent reads on every turn in this project. Holds facts about this project that should survive compaction. See Memory.

Mobile App Mode

A Vibely mode that builds iOS + Android apps from one Expo + React Native codebase. See Mobile overview.

Mode

The kind of project Vibely is building — Web App, Mobile App, or Design. Each mode has its own starter stack and surface conventions.

Pin (a model)

To override smart routing and lock a project (or a single turn) to a specific model — done from the model picker in the chat composer.

Plan Mode

A read-only mode where the agent researches and proposes an approach without modifying any files. Useful for big changes. See Iterating → Use Plan Mode.

Preview URL

See Live preview.

Project

A single Vibely build — files, conversation, version history, and a running dev environment. Lives inside a workspace.

Publish

To turn a project’s preview URL into a stable, public URL — at *.vibelyagent.com or your own domain. See Publish.

Sandbox

The cloud environment where your project’s code lives and the dev server runs. Restarting or resetting the sandbox doesn’t lose your files.

Slide

A design surface for presentations. 16:9 dimensions, full canvas per slide. See Design overview.

Smart routing

Vibely’s default behaviour for picking the best AI model per turn — reasoning models for code, long-context for big inputs, precision models for refactors. You see which model handled each turn in the message header.

Snapshot

A point-in-time copy of a project’s files. Every successful turn creates a snapshot; the Versions tab lets you restore any one of them.

Tool

A function the agent can call — read a file, write a file, run a command, search the web, generate an image, etc. The set of available tools depends on the project’s mode and Plan-Mode state.

Turn

One round-trip in the conversation: you send a prompt, the agent responds with file writes, tool calls, and text. A session is many turns.

Visibility (project)

Who can open the project in the editor: Restricted (Owner only — Business plan) or Workspace (every workspace member). Separate from Website access, which controls who can visit the published site. See Project settings → Access & Sharing.

Website access

Who can visit a project’s published site (separate from editor Visibility): Public (anyone with the URL), Workspace (signed-in workspace members), or Group-only (specific Team access groups). Workspace and Group-only require Business. See Project settings → Deploy & publish.

Workspace role

The role a member holds at the workspace level: Owner > Admin > Editor > Viewer. Owner and Admin manage workspace settings; Editor and Viewer work inside projects. The Admin role is only available on Pro and Business — Free workspaces only have Owner, Editor, Viewer. See People.

Project role

A per-project role granted to a collaborator on top of their workspace role: Admin / Editor / Viewer, scoped to that one project. Effective permission is the most-permissive of (workspace role, project role, group access). See Project settings → Access & Sharing. A single shareable URL with a fixed role (Editor / Viewer / disabled) that gives anyone with the link that level of access to one project. Regenerating invalidates the old link; people who already accepted stay in. Viewer-role Shared links are Pro+. See Project settings → Shared link.

Public remixing

A project toggle that lets anyone with the preview link open the project without signing in — useful for prototypes, hackathon submissions, and clickable templates. See Project settings → Public remixing.

Team access

A Business feature that grants a whole member group Admin / Editor / Viewer / read-only Viewer access to a project in one move. See People → Member groups.

Internal publish

A Business-only publishing target: the live site is reachable only by signed-in workspace members (or a specified group), instead of the public internet. See Plans and credits → Business.

Audit log

A timestamped record of workspace-sensitive actions — invites, role changes, connector authorisations, secret reads, sign-ins, SSO changes — available on the Business plan, filterable by action type, and exportable as JSON or CSV. See Admin settings → Audit log.

Security Center

A Business-only dashboard that rolls up every security finding (RLS, database, code, dependencies) across every project in the workspace, with severity filters and links straight to the offending file or row. See Admin settings → Security Center.

Web App Mode

A Vibely mode that builds full-stack web apps on Vite + React + Tailwind + TanStack + Supabase. See Web overview.

Workspace

The top-level container for projects, members, billing, and integrations. Most users have a single personal workspace; teams typically have one per product or per company. See Workspace overview.