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Glossary

Term Meaning
Agent An AI-enabled actor represented in supported source configuration or runtime events.
Asset An inventoried item such as an agent, model, tool, MCP server, identity, endpoint or repository.
Assessment A scoped evaluation using an implemented suite.
Capability A kind of analysis ModelFence can evaluate and report in Coverage.
Confidence How strongly the available evidence supports the finding.
Configured Declared by a supported source; not automatically verified effective.
Correlation Connecting evidence and recurring conditions into stable assets, relationships or findings.
Coverage gap A missing, partial, denied, outdated or unsupported evaluation boundary.
Evidence The source-backed record supporting a claim, with collection and provenance context.
Finding A detected condition with a rule, affected asset, severity, evidence and workflow state.
Heuristic A derived signal that requires investigation; not an independently confirmed incident.
Integration A connection that supplies repository data or runtime events to an organization.
MCP server A server exposing tools or other protocol capabilities to MCP clients.
Monitor mode Detection and reporting without in-path enforcement.
Observed Reported through instrumented runtime telemetry.
Organization The tenant and membership boundary for assets, findings and settings.
Provenance Who or what produced data, when it was collected, and the source or rule version used.
Risk acceptance An authorized decision to tolerate a condition with a reason and expiry.
Safe-active A bounded implemented test that sends traffic to explicitly authorized targets.
Severity The potential impact of the detected condition, separate from evidence confidence.
Synthetic Deliberately generated demo data; not evidence about a real organization.
Verified effective Specific live behavior confirmed by an implemented active check.