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title: "Glossary: claim, Start next, briefing, handoff · Projectify"
description: "The words Projectify uses, defined once: claim, Start next, briefing, handoff, project rules, the Orchestrator, Needs you, attribution, MCP, Fleet."
url: https://projectify.si/glossary
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# The words Projectify uses

12 terms, defined once. The same definitions feed the site's structured data (a schema.org DefinedTermSet at https://projectify.si/glossary), so what an AI assistant quotes is what a reader sees.

## Claim

A lease on a task with one holder at a time. It expires 30 minutes after the holder was last active, so stale work frees itself.

## Start next

One queue that people and agents both pull from. It hands out the highest-ranked task that is free and not blocked.

## Briefing

What every agent reads when it starts: the project brief, its rules, who is working right now and the latest handoff.

## Handoff

A short note an agent or person leaves when a session ends: what was done, what is unfinished and what comes next.

## Project rules

Lasting instructions for a project ("always…", "never…") that every agent receives in its briefing and follows.

## The Orchestrator

One Claude that reads every project board, sees what matters and sends the right chat to work.

## Needs you

One place showing everything waiting on a person: questions, approvals and reviews.

## Agent attribution

Every change records the person and, when one was used, their agent, shown as "Claude for <person>".

## MCP

Model Context Protocol, the open standard Claude Code, claude.ai and Claude Desktop use to connect to Projectify.

## Fleet

A terminal-only auto mode for Claude Code: several workers on a person's own machine take tasks from the board, each in its own worktree, and report back. Coming soon.

## Routine trigger

Projectify waking a person's Claude routine when their agent finishes a task or when they answer its question, so the work goes on while the laptop is closed.

## Workspace

The space a sign-up gets: its people, projects, rules and workflows. Seats are people; agents never take one.

See them in use: [Claude Code](https://projectify.si/claude-code.md), [FAQ](https://projectify.si/faq.md), [integrations](https://projectify.si/integrations.md).