Glossary
Agent Session
Section titled “Agent Session”The public term for one durable unit of supervised agent work. It includes the prompt, harness, status, logs, conversation, attachments, and run history.
Managed Agent
Section titled “Managed Agent”The internal Tycho object behind an agent session. Use this term in technical reference when matching the codebase or CLI output.
Harness
Section titled “Harness”The adapter Tycho uses to run a coding agent, such as Codex, Claude, OpenCode, or a custom Claude-compatible wrapper.
Operator Loop
Section titled “Operator Loop”The repeated workflow of starting work, watching status, reading output, answering questions, sending follow-ups, re-running, scheduling, and archiving.
Remote UI
Section titled “Remote UI”Tycho’s browser UI for checking and controlling agent sessions from localhost, local network, or tailnet.
Local-First
Section titled “Local-First”Tycho keeps project config, runtime state, logs, prompts, and agent history under local user-controlled paths by default.