Orientation

Use this page to place the words you will meet in the recipes. Reading time is about 15 minutes. It does not start a run.

Purpose

You can name the object a later step reads or writes. Level: reader who finished What Bundata is. Role: any role that can open the workspace. Mode: stored, unless a step says non-retaining.

Pieces

A schema is the approved field contract. A document is a file in a collection. A Smart Bite is a stored passage with its own id (with optional extra chunk sizes derived from it). A collection holds documents, bites, vectors, and studied field values. Search returns bites, a structured answer brief (answer-brief/v1), an approved verified answer from the Business context library, or a deterministic field answer. Context Studio and Context Engine govern the knowledge layers, context library, and context sets. An agent is a saved configuration (or an external client authenticating with a scoped bdk_… credential over /api/agent/v1) that runs only when your role and the runtime allow it. A workflow is a graph you save, publish, and then run as a snapshot.

What is not a separate edition

There is no open-source Bundata to install beside the hosted product, and no public SDK package that speaks for the API. Organization keys in Settings → AI providers are OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google provider keys—they do not sign you in. The capability map for clients is Core concepts, not a parity grid with another vendor.

Check

You can point to Catalog for a collection, Schema Studio for fields, and Workflows for a published run, without calling any of those a finished answer.