| OaC | Organization as Code — the paradigm of declaring organizational topology in version-controlled config |
| Source | An external system that emits events (GitHub, Linear, Claude Code, etc.) |
| Actor | An entity that can be woken to do work (OpenClaw agent, human, webhook) |
| Route | Declarative wiring: source event -> actor delivery |
| Transform | A pipeline step that modifies, filters, or enriches events |
| Logger | A passive observer that records pipeline activity |
| Connector | A plugin that bridges OrgLoop to an external system (can be source, target, or both) |
| Checkpoint | An opaque cursor tracking a source’s last-processed position |
| WAL | Write-Ahead Log — append-only file ensuring at-least-once delivery |
| Event Bus | Internal message-passing abstraction (in-memory, file, NATS, Kafka) |