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Gaiish Dictionary

A working vocabulary for structured human–AI communication, with Gaiish terms marked separately from general AI terminology.

Last updated 2026-08-29 · Author

A

General AI term

Agent

A system that uses a model to choose steps, tools or actions toward a task.

General AI term

AI Model

A trained computational system that produces predictions or generated outputs from input data.

C

Gaiish term

Constraint

A boundary that makes an answer acceptable: scope, limit, requirement, tone or exclusion.

Gaiish term

Context

The situation, audience and source material a model needs but cannot infer.

General AI term

Context Window

The amount of input and output text a model can process in one interaction.

G

General AI term

Generative AI

AI systems that generate new text, images, audio, video, code or other content.

General AI term

Grounding

Connecting a model's response to supplied, retrieved or otherwise identified evidence.

H

General AI term

Hallucination

An unsupported or invented detail presented by a generative model as if it were reliable.

I

Gaiish term

Instruction

The action a model should take, expressed as a clear primary verb.

Gaiish term

Intent

The outcome, decision or change that makes a request useful.

General AI term

Iteration

A deliberate cycle of running, evaluating and refining a prompt or output.

L

General AI term

Large Language Model

A language model trained on large text datasets to predict and generate sequences of tokens.

O

Gaiish term

Output Specification

A description of the result's artefact, fields, sections, format and useful limits.

P

General AI term

Prompt

The input a person or system sends to a generative AI model.

Gaiish term

Prompt Framework

A repeatable shape for organising the components of a prompt.

R

General AI term

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

A pattern that retrieves relevant source material and supplies it to a generative model before generation.

T

General AI term

Token

A unit of text or other input that a language model processes.

V

Gaiish term

Validation

A check that the result satisfies the request, evidence boundary and declared constraints.

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