Glossary - Alignr

Your environment

Term	Meaning
Tenant / workspace	Your MSP’s account boundary in Alignr.
Organization / client	One of the clients managed by your MSP. APIs use the name Organization.
Integration	A connection to a source system.
Connector	The native code that reads a particular source and turns its responses into observations Alignr understands.
Mapping	An explicit link between a source’s company or tenant and the corresponding Alignr client.
Collection / sweep	A run that gathers a batch of observations from a source.
Subject	The person, device, policy, domain or other thing a fact is about.

Evidence and results

Term	Meaning
Predicate	The named property being observed, such as “MFA registered”.
Fact	An observation combining a subject, predicate and value with source and timing information.
Value / object	The answer the source reported: a boolean, count, state, timestamp or relationship, for example.
Provenance	Where an observation came from and how to trace it to its source.
Evidence	The particular facts supporting a result or claim.
Citation	A reference to the evidence supporting a claim.
Freshness	Whether an observation is recent enough to support its intended use.
Coverage	Whether the required kinds of evidence can be supplied in this client’s context.
Detection / issue	A finding that something is wrong, supported by evidence.
Drift	An observed change that can leave previously recorded information out of date.

Standards and controls

Term	Meaning
Standard	A collection of expectations applied to clients.
Baseline	A starting set of technical expectations to review against your clients’ needs.
Library template	A supplied set of controls and manual checks that you copy into a configurable standard.
Control	One expectation evaluated against a selected population and evidence.
Population	The subjects a control selects for evaluation.
Predicate condition	A comparison using a named observation, an operator and, where needed, an expected value.
Operator	How values are compared: equals, greater than, older than a number of days, and so on.
Parameter	A named value, such as a threshold, that can be configured without rewriting the condition.
Override	A client-specific setting that changes the effective expectation or enabled state.
Evaluation	One assessment of a control using effective settings and available evidence.
Manual check	A human assessment used when the expectation needs evidence or judgement that an automated control cannot supply.

Taking action

Term	Meaning
Remediation plan	The proposed ordered steps for addressing a finding.
Remediation run	One execution of a plan.
Autonomy ceiling	The maximum level of action permitted by the applicable controls.
Approval	A recorded authorisation for a proposed action; irreversible actions require a named human approver.
Rollback	A supported reversal of a run, subject to the particular action and its available window.
Verification	Checking fresh evidence to establish whether the intended outcome occurred.
API key scope	A permission granted to a credential.
MCP tool	A server-provided operation an authorised assistant client can call.
Step-up authentication	Additional, short-lived human verification required for protected operations such as secret reveal.

Put the terms together

A connector collects facts about a client’s subjects. A control selects a population, checks an expectation and returns a result supported by evidence. A supported remediation may address a failure; verification checks the outcome. Follow the evidence flow or walk through a control.

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