Glossary

Glossary

Agent — A main or child participant performing work inside a session.

Alert — A persisted occurrence produced when an enabled alert rule matches.

CCAM — Claude Code Agent Monitor.

Dashboard token — Credential protecting the REST API and WebSocket when authentication is enabled.

Event — A normalized lifecycle, tool, notification, or operational record.

Hook — A provider-triggered wrapper that sends near-live activity to CCAM without blocking the provider on failure.

Hook token — Independent credential accepted by remote hook ingestion endpoints.

Import — Parsing provider history or a CCAM export into normalized durable records.

MCP — Model Context Protocol; CCAM exposes structured tools through local or network transports.

MCP transport token — Credential protecting CCAM's HTTP/SSE MCP endpoints.

Remote Data Source — An SSH-accessible machine whose Claude and/or Codex history CCAM periodically mirrors and imports.

Run — A dashboard-launched Claude Code or Codex process with a live handle and persisted history.

Session — One top-level provider run associated with a project/working directory.

Source — The local or named remote origin assigned to a session.

Stale sweep — Background reconciliation for records whose activity has not advanced within expected bounds.

Task/Kanban card — A normalized work item and its progress state, used as an operational index.

Transcript — Provider-native conversational history, including messages and tool context.

WebSocket — Live server-to-client channel used to refresh dashboard state.

Webhook — Outbound delivery target for fired alerts.

WAL/SHM — SQLite sidecar files used during write-ahead logging; restore tooling handles them while the writer is stopped.