> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cogfoundry.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Core Concepts

> The objects and terms used throughout CogFoundry and LoomLoom documentation.

## Platform concepts

### AI Workload

The smallest production unit that can contain multiple model calls, API calls, tool executions, or workflow steps.

### LoomLoom

A template-based workflow service and CLI for structured, repeatable AI work. LoomLoom sends confirmed executions to the configured remote service and returns run records, result rows, workbooks, and artifacts.

## LoomLoom workflow objects

```text theme={null}
Official template ── platform-maintained and executed directly

Private template ── created and versioned by a user with TemplateSpec
   └─ Private template version
        └─ Submitted to the Market for review
             └─ Listing Version (immutable publication snapshot)
                  └─ Executed by buyers as a SkillBot
```

| Term              | Meaning                                                                                  |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Template          | The umbrella term for a reusable workflow definition.                                    |
| Official template | A platform-maintained workflow discovered through `loomloom template list`.              |
| Private template  | A user-owned workflow created with TemplateSpec. Changes create a new immutable version. |
| SkillBot          | The executable Market form of an approved private template version.                      |
| Listing           | The Market object through which a SkillBot is published, priced, discovered, and run.    |
| Run               | A recorded execution against structured input. One run may contain multiple input rows.  |
| Result workbook   | A server-generated workbook aligning submitted rows with outputs and errors.             |
| Artifact          | A generated file such as an image, video, or document associated with a run.             |
| Model             | A currently available text, image, or video generation model referenced by its model ID. |

## Inputs

* **Workbook input** is the default user experience for official templates, private templates, and Market SkillBots.
* **JSON or JSONL input** is available for programmatic CLI workflows.
* **Input assets** are reference files used inside template fields. They are not row-data files.
* **Orchestration inputs** contain JSONL rows for private-template execution. Their IDs cannot be substituted for input-asset IDs.

## Preparation and execution

Validation, uploads, downloads, schema inspection, model lookup, quoting, and prechecks prepare a workflow. They do not start a paid run.

An execution command creates a hosted run. Review the current estimate and explicitly confirm each execution. A previous confirmation does not apply to changed input, a different template, or a later run.

<Card title="Learn the template types" icon="layout-template" href="/documentation/loomloom/templates">
  Choose between an official template, a private template, and a Market SkillBot.
</Card>