Glossary - Polymet Docs

Each term links to the page that explains it.

The product

Term	Meaning
Polymet Agent	The AI that designs and builds in your project. Called “the agent” after its first mention. See Prompt the agent.
Generation	One run of the agent, from the moment you send a prompt until it stops.
Generation input	Where you type a prompt. See Prompt the agent.
Organization	Where your projects, members, credits and plan live. See Your organization.
Project	One app you are building. See Your projects.
Canvas	The board that shows a project’s screens. See The canvas.
Canvas node	One item on the canvas. Pages, components and prototypes each get one, and so does a comparison. See The canvas.
Page	A screen in your app.
Component	A reusable part that pages are built from.
Prototype	A set of linked pages that works as one app and can be published. See Publish a prototype.
Thread	One conversation with the agent inside a project. See Threads, context and queued messages.
Branch	A parallel copy of a project that you can merge back. See Branches.

History, publishing and releasing

Term	Meaning
Version	A saved state of a project. Every generation and every save makes one. See Versions and rollback.
Roll back	Return a project to an earlier version.
Publish	Put a prototype on a live link. Only projects are published. See Publish a prototype.
Live link	The address of a published prototype, on polymet.app or on your own domain.
Design system	Its own kind of project, released so other projects can follow it. See Design systems.
Release	Make a version of a design system available to other projects. Only design systems are released. See Release a design system.
Theme	One project’s colors, fonts, radius and shadows. See Themes.

Editing

Term	Meaning
Select and edit with AI	Click elements, write what should change on each, and send them to the agent together. The toolbar button is Select. See Select and edit with AI.
Visual editor	Change styles, text and layout directly, then save. The toolbar button is Edit. See Edit visually.
Code editor	Edit your app’s files by hand, then save. See Edit code.
Project rules	Standing instructions the agent follows on every generation in a project. See Project rules.

Connecting things

Term	Meaning
Integrations	Your own GitHub and Figma accounts, connected to Polymet once.
Agent connectors	Tools the agent can call while it generates. They are personal to you. See Agent connectors.
Project integrations	What one project uses: its Backend, its GitHub repository, its custom domain.
Backend	A project’s database, sign-in, file storage and functions. See Add a backend.
Polymet MCP server	Polymet, used from Claude, Cursor and other coding agents. See Use Polymet from your coding agent.
Link	Attach a project to a GitHub repository or to a design system.

Integrations, connectors and the MCP server compares the four.

Plans and credits

Term	Meaning
Credits	What generations cost. They belong to the organization. See How credits work.
Plan	Free, Pro, Team, Enterprise or Keep Alive. See Plans.
Credit pack	A one-time purchase of extra credits. See Buy more credits.

Names that changed

If you see an older name in a screenshot, a video or an old post, this is what it is called now.

Older name	Now
Revisions, “Pending revisions”	Select and edit with AI, “Pending edits”
Iteration	Version
Publishing a design system	Releasing a design system
Connecting a project to GitHub	Linking a project to a repository
Connecting a design system	Linking a design system
Workspace	Organization
The AI	Polymet Agent, or “the agent”
MCP Server (in Settings)	Polymet MCP server
Design folders	The sections of the file navigator: prototypes, components, pages and data
Preview link	Live link, from publishing a prototype