Glossary · 50+ Terms

The Agentic AI
Glossary.

Every protocol, standard, and concept in the agentic AI ecosystem — explained in plain language, with real examples of how MeetLoyd implements each one.

A

A2A Agent-to-Agent Protocol

Google's open protocol for agent interoperability. Enables agents from different platforms to discover each other and collaborate via Agent Cards and JSON-RPC.

ProtocolGoogleInteroperability

AP2 Agent Payments Protocol

Google's protocol for AI agent payments using cryptographically-signed mandates. Supports Intent, Cart, and Payment mandates for governed autonomous spending.

ProtocolGooglePayments

Agent Card

A JSON document at .well-known/agent.json that describes an agent's name, capabilities, and how to communicate with it. The "business card" for AI agents.

StandardDiscovery

AAIF Agentic AI Foundation

Linux Foundation consortium co-founded by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block to standardize agentic AI. Governs MCP and related standards.

OrganizationStandards

AI FinOps

Financial operations for AI agent workloads. Budget gates, cost attribution, spend forecasting, and unit economics for LLM token consumption. Preventive cost governance at the call level.

DisciplineFinanceCFO

AI TRiSM

Gartner's AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management framework. Unified TRiSM score combining coherence, verification, DLP, and watchdog signals. Per-agent risk matrix with threat intelligence.

DisciplineGartnerCISO

B

BYOK Bring Your Own Keys

Architecture where customers provide their own LLM API keys. MeetLoyd orchestrates but never sees your data. Mandatory at all tiers — not optional.

ArchitectureSecurityMeetLoyd

Blueprint

An expert-designed team composition with pre-configured agents, roles, and orchestration rules. MeetLoyd ships 23 built-in blueprints across industries.

MeetLoydDeployment

C

Change Management (ITIL)

ITIL-grade change management for AI agent operations. Risk auto-classification, CAB workflows, blackout windows, and change failure tracking for every prompt, model, and config change.

DisciplineOperationsITIL

D

Digital Workforce Management

Workforce management for AI agents. Capacity planning, utilization metrics, skill gap analysis, productivity benchmarks, and SLA tracking for your digital workforce.

DisciplineOperationsCOO

DLP Data Loss Prevention for AI

Full data lineage tracking with classification inventory and real-time risk heatmaps. 9 PII types, 4 enforcement actions, policy effectiveness scoring for AI agent data flows.

DisciplineSecurityCISO

E

ESG AI Sustainability & Carbon Governance

Per-provider carbon intensity tracking, GHG Protocol scope categorization, carbon budgets with enforcement, and CSRD-ready metrics for AI operations.

DisciplineSustainabilityCSRD

G

Governance Pack

Modular compliance module that activates specific controls: kill switch, DLP, CoT logging, four-eyes principle. MeetLoyd has 9 packs for GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, EU AI Act, DORA, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, NIS2, and AMF/CIF.

MeetLoydCompliance

GRC Governance, Risk & Compliance for AI

9 governance packs, 18 enforcement modules, compliance posture scoring (0-100), regulatory calendar, and real-time gap analysis. 81 automated controls across 11 frameworks.

DisciplineComplianceCCO

I

IGA Identity Governance & Administration for AI

Enterprise-grade agent identity governance. SPIFFE identities, 112 permissions, SoD conflict detection, access matrix, and identity health monitoring for non-human identities.

DisciplineIdentityCISO

Internal Audit Automation

Automated control testing with evidence chain integrity scoring. Audit readiness score, auditor portal with token-based auth, and per-framework readiness percentages for AI governance.

DisciplineAuditEvidence

K

Knowledge Management for AI

80+ skills with progressive disclosure, quality scoring per skill, knowledge graph with category interconnections, learning path recommendations, and memory retention metrics.

DisciplineOperationsKnowledge

M

MCP Model Context Protocol

Anthropic's open protocol for connecting AI agents to tools and data sources. The universal language of agent-to-tool communication. Now under AAIF governance.

ProtocolAnthropicTools

ML-KEM Module-Lattice Key Encapsulation

NIST FIPS 203 post-quantum key exchange standard (formerly Kyber). Replaces ECDH to protect agent federation traffic from future quantum computers.

FIPS 203Post-QuantumCryptography

O

OASF Open Agentic Schema Framework

AGNTCY's standardized schema for describing agent capabilities using skills and domains. MeetLoyd maps 106+ MCP tools to OASF skill categories.

StandardAGNTCYDiscovery

P

PQC Post-Quantum Cryptography

Cryptographic algorithms resistant to quantum computer attacks (NIST FIPS 203/204/205). Essential for protecting AI agent federation traffic and long-lived encryption keys.

CryptographyNISTSecurity

S

SecOps & SIEM Integration

SIEM-native with correlation engine (4 threat patterns), CEF/JSON/LEEF export, Splunk/Datadog/Elastic connectors. Real-time alert rules for AI agent security events.

DisciplineSecuritySOC

SLIM Secure Lightweight Inter-agent Messaging

AGNTCY/Cisco's protocol for cross-organization agent messaging with SPIFFE identity verification and optional MLS encryption (RFC 9420).

ProtocolAGNTCYFederation

SOX Controls for AI

11 SOX controls mapped to COSO 2013 framework. Material decision flagging, four-eyes governance, financial monitoring, and compliance scoring for AI agent operations.

DisciplineFinanceSOX

SPIFFE Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone

CNCF standard for workload identity. MeetLoyd assigns SPIFFE IDs to every agent: spiffe://meetloyd.com/tenant/{id}/agent/{id}. Cryptographic, revocable, auditable.

StandardCNCFIdentity

Shadow AI

Unauthorized AI tool usage within an enterprise. 67% of employees use AI without IT approval. ShadowScan detects it. MeetLoyd governs it.

RiskEnterprise

T

TPRM Third-Party AI Risk Management

Continuous vendor monitoring with risk scores per provider. Concentration risk via HHI, data flow mapping, and contractual coverage (DPA/SLA) tracking for LLM providers.

DisciplineRiskVendor

U

UCP Universal Commerce Protocol

Google's open standard for agentic commerce. Product discovery, checkout, identity linking, order management. MeetLoyd implements all 4 capabilities with AP2 mandate support.

ProtocolGoogleCommerce

X

x402 HTTP 402 Payment Protocol

Coinbase + Cloudflare standard for internet-native payments. Agents pay for API access using USDC stablecoins on Base network. Instant settlement, no intermediaries.

ProtocolCoinbaseCrypto

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