Glossary

Short definitions of the terms you'll meet across these docs.

Source — any place Kinn reads from: a community platform, a store, an issue tracker. Sources are the input to everything Kinn does. See Sources.

Sync — Kinn ingesting content from a source. The initial sync pulls in a window of recent history; after that, Kinn keeps up with new activity in the background.

Query — a question you ask Kinn in plain language. See Writing good queries.

Standard mode — the everyday query mode: fast, and right for most questions.

Deep research — a query mode built for depth and accuracy. It runs more services, expands the context window, and produces more thorough answers.

Read-only source — a source Kinn only reads from and never changes (most sources).

Two-way source — a source Kinn can also write back to. Jira is the example: Kinn can create and update issues in the projects you connect.

Cross-platform analysis — asking a question across several sources at once, reading each platform's bias into the answer. Often where the most useful signal is. See Compare across platforms.

Bug detection & triage — how Kinn flags likely bug reports across your sources and helps you group and prioritize them. See Bug detection & triage.