> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.paradime.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Key terms

> A short glossary of the terms you'll meet across the Paradime app and docs, from workspace and Bolt to Radar, DinoAI, and Turbo CI, with links to learn more.

The words you'll see most often across the app and these docs, in plain language.

| Term                                     | Meaning                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Workspace**                            | The top-level container: one dbt™ project, its connections, and its team. See [how Paradime works](/guides/foundations/how-paradime-works).                                                             |
| **Environment**                          | A named set of warehouse credentials and targets. Development and scheduler environments keep dev and prod apart. See [environments and connections](/guides/foundations/environments-and-connections). |
| **Connection**                           | The warehouse credentials and settings inside an environment; what dbt™ reads as its profile.                                                                                                           |
| **dbt™ project**                         | Your version-controlled folder of models, sources, tests, and configuration. See [what is dbt™](/guides/foundations/what-is-dbt).                                                                       |
| **Model**                                | A SQL file that builds a table or view in your warehouse.                                                                                                                                               |
| **Source**                               | A declaration of a raw warehouse table your project reads from.                                                                                                                                         |
| **Materialization**                      | How a model is built: table, view, incremental, or ephemeral. See [model materializations](/guides/dbt-fundamentals/model-materializations/table-materialization).                                      |
| **Code IDE (Editor)**                    | The in-browser development environment for your dbt™ project. See [Code IDE](/products/code-ide/index).                                                                                                 |
| **DinoAI**                               | Paradime's AI layer: copilot, autonomous agents, and programmable agents. See [what is DinoAI](/guides/foundations/what-is-dinoai).                                                                     |
| **Copilot**                              | DinoAI inside the editor, working with you interactively.                                                                                                                                               |
| **Agent**                                | DinoAI working autonomously in the background on a task you delegate.                                                                                                                                   |
| **.dinorules**                           | A file of project conventions that steers how DinoAI writes code. See [.dinorules](/products/dino-ai/dino-rules).                                                                                       |
| **Bolt**                                 | The orchestrator that runs your project in production. See [what is Bolt](/guides/foundations/what-is-bolt).                                                                                            |
| **Schedule**                             | A Bolt job: commands, a trigger, and notification settings.                                                                                                                                             |
| **Run**                                  | One execution of a schedule, with its logs and artifacts.                                                                                                                                               |
| **Turbo CI**                             | Bolt's pull-request builds that only rebuild what changed. See [CI/CD](/products/bolt/index).                                                                                                           |
| **Defer to production**                  | Running a model in development while reading its unchanged parents from production, to skip rebuilding everything. See [defer to production](/guides/paradime-fundamentals/dbt-tm-defer-to-production). |
| **Catalog**                              | The searchable index of your documented data assets. See [Catalog](/products/data-catalog/index).                                                                                                       |
| **Lineage**                              | The dependency graph from sources to models to dashboards.                                                                                                                                              |
| **Radar**                                | Observability: warehouse cost, run health, and alerting. See [Radar](/products/radar/index).                                                                                                            |
| **Data mesh**                            | Multiple connected workspaces sharing models across projects. See [data mesh setup](/guides/data-mesh-setup/configure-project-dependencies).                                                            |
| **Roles (Admin / Developer / Business)** | The three access levels in a workspace; Business is read-only. See [roles and permissions](/products/settings/users/roles-and-permissions).                                                             |

## Where to go next

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## Related topics

- [Translating Key Terms](/guides/migrations/dbt-cloud-tm-importer/translation-of-key-terms.md)
- [Bolt Pipelines](/products/bolt/index.md)
- [Migration Playbook](/guides/migrations/dbt-cloud-tm-importer/migration-from-dbt-cloud-playbook.md)
- [dbt™ cloud to Paradime](/guides/migrations/dbt-cloud-tm-importer/index.md)
- [For read-only users](/start-here/quickstart/for-read-only-users.md)
