Ontology

Objects, Queries, Mutations, and Actions, the Resources that agents and Apps use.

A Workspace’s Ontology is its Objects, Queries, Mutations, and Actions: the Resources that agents and Apps use. It describes the things a business tracks and the operations allowed on them.

Objects

An Object defines the fields and links of the records a customer tracks, such as the customer’s own customers.

Functions

A Function is a Query, a Mutation, or an Action: TypeScript code that Tractorbeam runs with its bindings. Each kind may do different things:

• A Query reads data by running SQL.
• A Mutation changes Tables in one Commit. It has no network access.
• An Action does work that reaches other systems or needs more than one Commit.

Invocations

An invocation is a Function invoked once, with one input, for one principal. An invocation of an Action is an Action invocation. A failed attempt can be retried, so one invocation can have several attempts.