Glossary

Every Dalea-specific term, A to Z.

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Approval card: The inline confirmation card the in-app chat shows before running a destructive tool. Buttons: Approve once, Reject, Always approve this action type.
Audit reason: A short free-text justification required when changing a schema or signing a result. Persisted in the audit log; mandatory in regulated tiers.
Block: An atomic unit of a document — paragraph, heading, table, chart, protocol step, code, callout. All blocks have unique IDs.
Branch: A grouping of tutorials in the Learn hub. The Fundamentals, Data Mastery and Inventory branches.
Built-in skill: A skill that ships with the platform (e.g. editing_dalea_documents, writing_python_in_dalea, designing_data_environments). Visible to every workspace; cannot be edited or shadowed.
Column: A field definition on a table. Has a type, optional validation, and (for references) a target table.
Container: A physical inventory location: freezer, box, plate carousel slot. Containers can nest.
Container type: A schema describing a class of container — its position format (none / numeric grid / custom), nesting rules, metadata fields.
Dimension: A grouping/filtering axis on a result table. e.g. animal, timepoint.
Document: A collaborative rich-text + structured-block notebook page.
Environment: A schema container that holds tables, columns, naming schemes.

Inventory item: A physical instance — one vial, one tube — in inventory. Has a quantity, a location, an item type.
Item type: A schema for inventory items — its custom columns, SKU pattern, units.
Knowledge grounding: The in-app assistant's habit of consulting this wiki and your workspace documents before answering knowledge-shaped questions, so terminology stays consistent.
Lot: A manufacturing batch. Multiple items can belong to one lot for traceability.
Manifest: Metadata file shipped with a marketplace package — name, version, dependencies, min Dalea version.
MCP: Model Context Protocol. The protocol Dalea exposes for external LLMs (Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT) to call tools against your workspace.
Measurement: A numeric value column on a result table. Distinguished from a dimension column.
Naming scheme: A pattern (e.g. SMP-{N}) that auto-generates display IDs for new objects.

Object: A row in an entity table. e.g. one animal, one sample.
Organisation: The top-level container. Owns workspaces, has members, sits on a tier.
Package: A reusable artefact published to dalea.market — template, block, environment, or bundle.
Personal skill: A skill authored by you, visible only to you. Lives alongside workspace and built-in skills in the assistant's catalogue.
Plan mode: The approval gate for multi-step chat work. The assistant writes a prose plan first; you approve, modify, or abort before any tool runs.
Project: An organisational grouping inside a workspace — a study, a campaign. No permission effects.
Result: A measurement row in a result table.
Result batch: A recording session. All results that were captured together (one ELISA run, one cytometry experiment) belong to one batch.

SKU: Stock Keeping Unit. A human-readable identifier on an inventory item. Optional, generated by SKU pattern on the item type.
Scope: The npm-style namespace on dalea.market. Personal scopes match your handle; org scopes match your organisation slug.
Skill: A short markdown primer the in-app assistant loads on demand. Three scopes: built-in (ships with the platform), workspace (admin-authored, shared), personal (yours).
Slash menu: The block insertion menu. Type "/" inside the editor to open it.
Standard curve: In an immunoassay, the dose-response curve fit to known concentrations of analyte. Dalea fits a 4-parameter logistic by default.
Template: A document blueprint with optional locking. Reusable inside a workspace or publishable to the marketplace.
Tier: The billing/feature class of an organisation. Free, Pro, Academic, Enterprise.
Vision-capable model: A chat model that accepts image input alongside text. Required for drag-drop / paste of screenshots and instrument captures into the chat.
Workspace: The data boundary and collaboration unit inside an organisation.
Workspace skill: A skill authored by a workspace admin (anyone with MANAGE_AI_SKILLS) and visible to every workspace member.
Real-time sync: The mechanism that lets multiple users edit the same document simultaneously without merge conflicts. Surfaced in the UI as live cursors and presence indicators.