Reference and troubleshooting · Reference
Glossary and limits
The words ahel uses, from app to vault, what each app status means, and the time and size limits that apply across the product.
The words these docs and the product use, and the limits that are not about your plan. Plan limits are in Plans, limits and usage.
Words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| App | A service your AI can use through ahel, such as a project tracker or a CRM. |
| Discover | ahel's catalog of apps, MCP servers, skills and knowledge, at ahel.ai/discover. |
| Listed only | An app in Discover with the vendor's official name and a link to its documentation, but no actions in ahel. No key or sign-in is collected, and it cannot be connected. Other labels say how an app connects: Ready, Sign in to connect, API key or No account needed. |
| Workspace | Your own set of apps, keys, members and settings in ahel. |
| Connector | The one address you add to your AI tool: https://mcp.ahel.ai. |
| Vault | Where your workspace's keys and sign-ins are sealed. Your AI never sees them. |
| Card | The small view an answer appears in, where the AI tool draws one. Every card has a complete text version. |
| Confirm card | The card a change waits on. Nothing runs until a person presses it. |
| Approval | A second yes, from an owner or team lead, that a held call needs on the Team plan. |
| Activity | Your workspace's receipts: every call and every key use. |
| Studio | Where you make your own app from an API or an MCP server. |
| Public app | A Studio app anyone can add, listed in Discover. |
| Request pool | The monthly number of requests your public apps can serve to people outside your workspace. |
| Kit | A named set of apps given to a teammate when they are invited. |
| Handoff | A session passed to a teammate's AI with the goal, the decisions and the next step. |
| Owner, Team lead, Member | The three roles in a workspace. See Set up a team. |
| MCP | Model Context Protocol, the standard AI tools use to reach outside services. The connector is a remote MCP server. |
App status
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| On | Ready to use. |
| Needs setup | On, but a key or sign-in is missing. |
| Off | Turned off in the workspace. |
| Available | Offered in the workspace; switch it on for yourself to use it. |
| Unavailable | ahel cannot serve it right now. The detail says why. |
Time limits
| What | Limit |
|---|---|
| A confirm card | Expires after 1 hour if nobody presses it |
| A call held for approval | Waits up to 1 day |
| An approval | Good for one run within 1 hour |
| A team invite | Valid for 14 days; resending restarts it |
| A Studio tester link | 7 days by default, 30 days at most, 10 open per app |
| Team audit log | Keeps 30 days by default |
Size limits in Studio
| What | Limit |
|---|---|
| An OpenAPI document | 2 MB |
| Operations read from one document | The first 200 |
| Request bodies | JSON only |
Last updated 5 October 2026