Claude Duet30 terms
AI agent glossary.
Plain-language definitions of the terms you meet around AI assistants and browser agents.
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- AI agentSoftware that uses an AI model to take actions toward a goal, not only to answer.
- AI sidebarAn AI assistant that lives in a browser sidebar.
- Approval stepA pause where the agent asks you before an important action.
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- CAPTCHAA test that websites use to tell humans and bots apart.
- Chrome extensionA small program that adds features to the Chrome browser.
- CitationA reference to the source of a fact.
- Context windowThe amount of text a model can consider at once.
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- Deep researchAn AI mode that searches, reads several sources and writes a cited report.
- DOMThe structure of a web page that browsers and scripts work with.
- Duet modeClaude Duet’s mode that asks two AI models the same question at once.
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- Fair use (limits)Reasonable-use rules that keep a service reliable for everyone.
- Free trialA period when you can use a paid plan without being charged.
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- HallucinationWhen an AI states something false with confidence.
- Human in the loopA design where a person approves or corrects an automated system’s important actions.
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- Manifest V3The current platform for Chrome extensions, with stricter security rules.
- Memory (assistant)Facts and preferences the assistant keeps to personalize answers.
- Merchant of recordThe company legally responsible for selling and handling payments, taxes and refunds.
- Model comparisonLooking at answers from different AI models to the same prompt.
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- Page contextThe content of the current page sent along with your question.
- PromptThe instruction or question you give an AI model.
- Prompt injectionText on a page that tries to trick an AI into following hidden instructions.
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- Scheduled automationAn instruction that runs automatically at set times.
- Side panelChrome’s built-in panel that shows an extension next to the page you are on.
- Speech to textTurning spoken words into written text.
- SummarizationCondensing a text to its main points.
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