AI Glossary

Lane

The set of files a seat may write, where anything changed outside it is counted and erased before the commit. On the authority matrix, a lane is also one kind of work (autonomous or gated).

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See also

  • Sandbox

    An isolated environment in which an agent can run code or use tools with limited access to files, networks and other systems, as far as its configuration allows.

  • Agent seat

    A named role in the org with a written charter, a lane of files it may write, and a line it cannot cross without a human.

  • Discard

    A file an agent changed that its run may not keep, erased before the commit rather than shipped: anything outside its lane, and a lane file the run cannot keep yet, such as a proposed lesson before the ladder allows one.

  • Authority matrix

    The committed table of every seat's autonomous and gated lanes, enforced by the workflows that run the org rather than by instructions to the model.

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This term

Orbyt Labs, Lane (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/lane

The dataset (JSON)

Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset

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