62. Glossary¶

Stable technical terms used across the GAP Agentic developer guide.

Term	Meaning
Advisory package	The canonical, structured output of the pipeline, carrying recommendations, supporting detail, and full ancestry.
Agrometeorological feature	A quantity derived from raw weather, for example accumulated rainfall over a window.
Assessment	One calculator's verdict, together with its confidence.
Confidence vector	A multi-axis expression of uncertainty, banded HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW for farmers.
DAG	Directed acyclic graph — nodes with directed edges and no cycles; the shape of a decision trace.
Decision trace	The graph of typed nodes linking a recommendation back to the signals that produced it.
Degradation	A specific, named record that an input was substituted or omitted.
FAO-56	The UN Food and Agriculture Organization standard soil-water-balance method, stepped daily.
Go-semantics	The declared meaning of a positive verdict for a given calculator.
Handler	An interface-layer component that validates a request and delegates it inward, without performing science.
Index calculator	A self-contained component that answers one agronomic question and returns a verdict.
MCP	Model Context Protocol — a way to expose capabilities as callable tools over HTTP and JSON.
No-blend	The rule that a single named model and statistic are served per country rather than an average of models.
Orchestration	The single advisory pipeline that every entry point converges on.
Policy pack	Tenant-supplied configuration declaring conflict, suppression, escalation, and uncertainty rules.
Signal	A raw input as received, before any derivation.
SPW	Suitable Planting Window — an advisory indicating when conditions favour planting.
Tenant	One partner organisation with isolated data, configuration, and credentials.
Tool	A named, callable capability with a typed contract, exposed through the MCP surface.
Uncertainty gate	A confidence threshold below which action advice is withheld.

For data-platform terms, see the developer documentation.