Glossary
Short definitions of terms used across the Frametail product and API.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Project key | URL-safe slug identifying a project; sent as X-Project-Key. |
| API key | Secret credential (ft_...) authenticating HTTP requests for your organization. |
| Trace | Top-level record for a single instrumented workflow, containing spans and metadata. |
| Span | One timed segment inside a trace (for example, a model invocation). |
| Benchmark | Evaluation job over a dataset using configured scorers. |
| Scorer | Function or model configuration that grades benchmark outputs. |
| Dataset | Tabular collection of benchmark inputs (and optional labels). |
| Prompt | Named, versioned prompt content used in generative workflows. |
| Experiment | A structured run comparing variants (for example, prompts or models). |
| Task | Saved prompt, model, and parameters for reuse in experiments and the workbench. |