| Agent | Link's background runtime on a device. |
| API base URL | The address a client uses for inference, usually ending in /v1. |
| Canary | A small initial group used to evaluate a rollout before expanding it. |
| Control | Aventail's hosted interface for managing devices and models. |
| Deployment | Downloading and preparing a model on a device; distinct from serving it. |
| Device | A registered machine running Link. |
| Endpoint | An address and path used for an API request. |
| Fleet | An organisation's managed group of devices. |
| GGUF | A model file format used by the language-model runtime. |
| Inference | Running a model on an input to obtain a result. |
| Aventail Link (Link) | Software installed on the machine that runs your models. Version 1.x is documented as Locai Link (Legacy Aventail). |
| llama.cpp | An inference engine used for compatible language models. |
| Model ID | The exact identifier returned by the serving endpoint's /v1/models response. |
| Model library | Models available in Control, including owned and globally shared models. |
| Overlay / revision | A saved set of fleet configuration values. |
| Registration key | A credential used to enrol a headless device. Its expiry is set in Control. |
| Ring | A group of devices in a staged rollout. |
| Serving | Making a deployed model available to accept requests. |
| Telemetry | Measurements and operational state reported by a device. |
| TensorFlow Lite / TFLite | A format and runtime used by supported classification pipelines. |
| WebGPU | Browser graphics/compute technology used by Workspace's This device models. |
| Workspace | Aventail's chat and document interface. An organisation workspace in Control is a separate account context. |