Glossary
Use this glossary to understand words shown across ScrinCloud and its public guides. Definitions describe product behavior from a user’s perspective. Availability can still depend on organization policy, plan, provider, environment, role, and the current item’s status.
For step-by-step work, follow the linked guide rather than using a definition as an operating instruction.
Account : Your individual ScrinCloud identity, including sign-in, password, verification methods, preferences, and active sessions.
Active : A status showing that an item is enabled and available for its intended product workflow.
Active session : A browser currently signed in to your account. Review and end sessions under Settings → Security.
Adoption : The deliberate decision to bring a discovered cloud resource into a governed ScrinCloud workspace. Discovery alone is not adoption.
AI assistance : Product guidance that can help draft or explain architecture and Terraform work. Deterministic validation, policy, approval, and user review remain authoritative.
Allocation : The portion of observed cloud cost assigned to a project, workspace, resource, owner, or other supported grouping.
Apply : The governed action that can make an approved Terraform plan change real infrastructure. A plan or approval is not an apply.
Approval : A recorded reviewer decision for the exact item and revision under review.
Approval gate : A requirement that must be satisfied before a governed action can continue, such as minimum reviewers or a named reviewer group.
Architecture : The resources, relationships, configuration, and boundaries that describe how a system is intended to work.
Architecture Studio : ScrinCloud’s visual workspace for adding, connecting, configuring, saving, and validating architecture resources.
Audit event : A time-ordered record of a material product action, actor, scope, outcome, and safe supporting context.
Authenticator app : An application that generates short-lived verification codes for two-factor authentication.
Available : A capability is present for the current role, plan, scope, environment, and item status.
Billing period : The time window used to group observed cost, such as the current month.
Budget rule : A Cloud Cost threshold used to warn or notify when tracked spend reaches a configured amount or condition.
Cancelled : A terminal status showing that work stopped before completion after a cancellation request or policy decision.
Canvas : The visual area in Architecture Studio where resources and their supported relationships are arranged.
Change : A proposed difference between the current reviewed state and the next intended state.
Check Design : A visible action that reviews an architecture against the product’s supported deterministic checks.
Cloud account connection : Approved, scoped access used by ScrinCloud cloud workflows. Product access and cloud authority remain separate.
Cloud Discovery : A read-only workflow that reviews supported cloud metadata within a selected provider, account, region, and service scope.
Cloud provider : The cloud platform selected for a project, workspace, resource, or connection, such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.
Code-managed resource : A resource represented in Terraform code but not necessarily managed through the current visual canvas.
Confidence : An indication of how strongly available cost or evidence supports the displayed result.
Connection health : The current result of ScrinCloud’s safe checks for a cloud or Git connection.
Cost estimate : A pre-deployment calculation based on a reviewed Terraform plan and supported pricing assumptions. It is not an invoice or observed spend.
Cost snapshot : A saved view of observed cost for a defined scope and period.
Current : The latest selected or authoritative item for the present workflow, such as the current revision, plan, or session.
Deferred : Work was accepted but is waiting for capacity or another safe condition before it can start.
Deployment : The controlled release of an approved change into an environment. Source or configuration alone does not prove deployment.
Diagram : A saved visual architecture containing resources, relationships, layout, and configuration.
Diagnosis : A ScrinOps review that uses eligible incident evidence to explain a likely problem and possible next steps.
Discovery Operations : The product area for reviewing discovery runs, supported and unsupported resources, adoption, management status, and drift workflows.
Drift : A difference between observed cloud state and the desired or recorded state used by a governed workspace.
Environment : A named operating stage or boundary, such as development, test, staging, or production.
Estimate : See Cost estimate.
Evidence : A bounded record used to support a finding, decision, approval, or result.
Evidence citation : A reference connecting a ScrinOps claim to the eligible evidence that supports it.
Exception : A time-bounded, reviewed allowance to proceed despite a policy finding. It does not remove the policy.
Expired : An item is no longer valid because its allowed time or freshness window ended.
Failed : A terminal status showing that an attempt did not complete successfully.
Finding : A specific validation, policy, security, cost, or operational result that needs review.
Formatting : Normalizing Terraform text into a consistent readable form without proving that it is valid or safe to apply.
Freshness : How recently observed data or evidence was collected relative to its expected update period.
Generated Terraform : Terraform files drafted from reviewed architecture intent. Generated files still require inspection, validation, policy checks, planning, and approval.
Git connection : An approved connection to a supported Git provider and owner used for repository-related workflows.
Governance : The policies, evidence, roles, reviews, approvals, and audit records that control how changes progress.
Guardrail : A rule or control that warns, blocks, or requires review for a change.
Health check : A product action that reviews whether a connection or capability is ready for its supported use.
History : Earlier revisions, runs, events, or results retained for comparison and accountability.
Identity verification : A step that confirms control of an account or enrolled verification method before a sensitive action.
Incident : A ScrinOps record representing a detected operational condition that may need review or diagnosis.
Invitation : A request for a person to join a project with a selected role. It remains pending until accepted or revoked.
Known cost : Cost that ScrinCloud can associate with supported pricing or observed billing evidence for the selected scope.
Least privilege : Giving a person or connection only the access needed for its approved responsibility.
Live Cost : ScrinCloud’s view of observed provider billing data, allocations, budgets, recommendations, and freshness for a configured workspace.
Managed resource : A discovered cloud resource deliberately adopted into a governed workspace for supported management workflows.
Manual workspace : A workspace that is not linked to a Git repository and is managed through the supported ScrinCloud editing and delivery flow.
Member : A person with an assigned role in an organization or project.
Notification : A product or email message about an action, state change, warning, approval, budget, or security event.
Not configured : A status showing that required setup has not yet been completed.
Observed state : The latest cloud or cost information collected for a selected scope.
Organization : The top-level ownership, membership, plan, and shared policy boundary in ScrinCloud.
Organization administrator : A role permitted to manage approved organization-level settings. It does not automatically replace project-specific review or provider authority.
Owner : The person or group accountable for a project, workspace, connection, policy, or other governed item.
Partial : A result where some selected scope completed and some remains incomplete or needs review.
Passkey : A device-backed sign-in method that can verify account access without entering a reusable password for that step.
Pending : An item is waiting for another action, confirmation, or state change.
Plan entitlement : A capability or limit available through the organization’s current ScrinCloud plan.
Policy : A defined rule that evaluates a change and records a pass, warning, block, or review requirement.
Policy exception : See Exception.
Policy pack : A reusable group of approved policies assigned to one or more governed scopes.
Project : The main home for one product, platform area, or infrastructure initiative, including its members and workspaces.
Provider connection : See Cloud account connection.
Queued : Work was accepted and is waiting to start. Monitor the existing item instead of submitting duplicates.
Read-only : Access that can inspect approved information but cannot make provider changes.
Recovery code : A sensitive, normally single-use code for account recovery or fresh verification when another enrolled method is unavailable.
Remediation proposal : A reviewed ScrinOps suggestion for addressing a diagnosed condition. It is not an automatic infrastructure change.
Request identifier : A browser-visible reference that helps support locate one product request without needing sensitive content.
Resource : A cloud component represented, discovered, estimated, governed, or managed by a supported ScrinCloud workflow.
Revision : A saved, identifiable version of diagram or Terraform content.
Reviewer : A person allowed to assess a defined change, finding, exception, or approval step.
Reviewer group : A reusable set of project members assigned a shared review responsibility.
Role : A named set of permissions for an organization or project responsibility.
Run : One tracked attempt to perform a workflow such as discovery, validation, Terraform planning, cost sync, or diagnosis.
Runtime evidence : An authorized product result showing what actually happened in a specific environment, including final state and required cleanup.
Save : Persist the current supported content as a revision. Saving does not validate, approve, plan, apply, or deploy it.
Scope : The boundary selected for an action, such as organization, project, workspace, environment, provider, account, region, or resource.
Session : A signed-in browser’s time-bounded access to your ScrinCloud account.
Share report : A time-limited public Cloud Cost view created for a selected stored snapshot and scope.
Simulation : A deterministic evaluation of expected architecture behavior, such as whether a supported network path should work.
Snapshot : A saved view of information at a particular time, used for review and comparison.
Source-ready : The implementation exists in reviewed source. This does not by itself prove release, deployment, or runtime behavior.
Stale : Data or evidence is older than its expected freshness window and should be refreshed before relying on it.
Status : The product’s current label for an item’s lifecycle or outcome.
Succeeded : A terminal status showing that the tracked workflow completed its defined work. Review its result before taking the next action.
Supported : The product recognizes the item for the named workflow and can apply its current approved behavior.
Sync : Refreshing selected information from an approved source into the current product view.
Team access : Project membership, roles, invitations, reviewer groups, and approval responsibilities.
Terraform : A declarative language and workflow for describing and reviewing infrastructure as code.
Terraform file : A file containing Terraform configuration, variable declarations, values, outputs, or supporting metadata.
Terraform plan : A proposed set of infrastructure changes produced for review before apply.
Terraform state : Sensitive data that records Terraform’s known relationship to managed infrastructure. Never include it in support requests.
Terraform workspace : ScrinCloud’s governed boundary for Terraform files, revisions, runs, evidence, settings, and delivery context.
Terminal status : A final lifecycle state such as succeeded, failed, cancelled, rejected, or timed out.
Timed out : A terminal status showing that completion was not confirmed within the allowed time.
Two-factor authentication : Sign-in protection requiring a second enrolled verification method in addition to the account password.
Unavailable : The capability cannot currently be used for the selected role, plan, scope, environment, connection, or item state.
Unallocated cost : Observed cost that cannot be assigned confidently to the selected grouping.
Unknown cost : Cost that ScrinCloud cannot estimate or classify confidently from the available supported information. Unknown does not mean zero.
Unsupported : The item was recognized but is not currently handled by the named ScrinCloud workflow. It should remain visible and separate.
Validate : Run deterministic checks against supported architecture or Terraform rules.
Validation finding : A specific result from deterministic checks, including severity, affected item, explanation, and safe next step.
Variable : A named input used by Terraform or environment configuration. Sensitive values require protected handling and must not appear in support material.
Verified : The product has completed the named identity, connection, or evidence check. Verification applies only to that check and time.
Viewer : A read-focused project role that can inspect approved content without broad edit or administration authority.
Watched resource : A resource selected for closer Cloud Cost tracking, budget, or notification attention.
Workspace : An environment-specific boundary for architecture, provider, Terraform, governance, and cost work inside a project.
Workspace lock : A visible control that prevents conflicting edits while a supported workspace change is in progress.
Workload identity federation : A connection method that uses short-lived identity trust instead of a reusable provider secret.
Status language at a glance
Section titled “Status language at a glance”| Status family | User meaning |
|---|---|
| Ready or available | Required visible prerequisites are currently satisfied |
| Not configured | Complete the named setup |
| Pending or queued | Wait for the accepted item |
| Deferred | Work is safely waiting for capacity or another condition |
| Running | Monitor the current item |
| Succeeded | Review the completed result |
| Partial | Review completed and incomplete scope separately |
| Failed | Correct the stated cause before retrying |
| Cancelled or rejected | The attempt ended without completing |
| Timed out | Confirm final state before starting again |
| Expired or stale | Refresh access or evidence |
| Unsupported or unknown | Keep the uncertainty visible; do not assume success or zero impact |
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