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Glossary
Every Spark Loops term in plain words. Terms are linked here from their first use on each page.
The agent
- Agent
- An AI assistant that does a job for you.
- Specialist agent
- One agent with one job, plus its instructions, examples and scoring guide.
- Instructions
- What your agent is told to do. This is what Spark improves.
- Known mistakes
- Ways the agent could go wrong, written down so each new version is tested against them.
- Scoring guide
- How good work is scored.
- Quick offline check
- A basic check that runs on your computer.
- Draft-only
- A new agent can draft, but nothing changes until you allow it.
A training round
- Round
- One training round: try new versions, test them, and check the result.
- Training run
- A series of rounds with a spending limit.
- New version
- A proposed new version of the agent's instructions.
- Who writes new versions
- Spark suggests new instructions and checks the work. Chat planning is coming soon.
- Testing on your examples
- Running a new version through your examples.
- Quality check
- A check that the work can be reviewed.
- Spending limit
- The most you allow a training run to spend. Training stops there.
- What to work on
- An optional note about the weakness you want to improve.
Reviewers
- AI reviewers
- Separate AI models that compare the work.
- Checked blind
- Reviewers do not know which version is which.
- Reviewer
- One AI reviewer.
- Reviewer feedback
- The AI reviewers' assessment of the work.
The hidden test
- A test it cannot study for
- A check that helps you look beyond the practice examples.
- Test failure
- A result that highlights a mistake in the work.
Your decision
- Your best version
- The best version so far. A new one replaces it only after you approve the upgrade.
- Upgrade ready for you to approve
- A proposed change for you to review and approve before use.
- Keep what you had
- You can keep the current instructions instead of approving a change.
- Comparing results
- Read scores alongside the examples and the conditions of each test.
Getting unstuck
- Stuck
- Several rounds in a row with no improvement.
- Further experiments
- More instruction variations to try when progress stalls.
- Real outcome
- A real result you record, for example how a lead actually turned out.
Grok Bot and helpers
- Training brief
- A short plan for what a training run should work on.
- Decision record
- The record of the decision: keep the change, keep it as a draft only, or change nothing.
- Outside helper
- Connecting outside helpers to suggest new versions is coming soon.
- Direct connection
- Connecting outside helpers is coming soon.
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