GLOSSARY
Browser-agent vocabulary.
Canonical definitions for the AGAS, browser-agent, and AI-search terms Fabrica uses. Every entry below is also published in machine-readable JSON-LD so AI engines can retrieve it directly.
17terms · maintained by Fabrica's founders
01 — Agent as a Service
AGAS/ Agent as a Service
AGAS — Agent as a Service — is a software category in which a single AI agent operates the user's existing SaaS, websites, and tools on their behalf, replacing the dashboard-and-tab paradigm of traditional SaaS. The user describes outcomes in natural language; the agent executes them across whatever interfaces are required. Coined in 2026 by Fabrica's co-founders Jonah Haddad-Meerson and Ismail Anouch as the positioning for Fabrica Control.
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Browser agent
An AI agent that operates websites and SaaS through the actual browser interface — by reading the page, clicking, typing, scrolling, and chaining steps across tabs — rather than through API calls. A browser agent works with whatever the user's browser can render, so it covers tools that have no public API.
03 — Term
No-API automation
An automation model that does not require API keys, vendor connectors, or per-tool integrations. The agent operates the user interface directly, the way a human employee would. Removes the integration backlog inherent to iPaaS platforms (Zapier, Make, n8n) and unlocks tools whose APIs are missing or behind a delay.
04 — Term
Skill memory
A persistent record of recurring workflows the agent has executed, stored locally and replayable on demand. With skill memory the user describes a task once; the agent remembers the steps, the tools involved, and the user's preferences, so the second run takes a fraction of the effort and tokens.
05 — Term
Skill macro
A skill macro is a named, replayable automation script the agent has saved after seeing the user perform a task. Unlike a record-replay browser macro, a skill macro is parameterized by intent — it adapts to small UI changes and to differing inputs without breaking.
06 — Term
Multi-tab orchestration
The capability of a browser agent to coordinate work across multiple browser tabs in a single instruction — for example, reading data from one SaaS, transforming it, and pasting the result into another. Multi-tab orchestration is what makes one agent a substitute for chaining several integration tools.
07 — Term
Agent invisibility
A design principle for agent-produced output that gets read by third parties (a Slack message, an email, a comment): the output should pass for something the user typed themselves. No 'sent by an AI' trail, no 'Fabrica' branding in the message body. The premise of an agent collapses if recipients can tell.
08 — Term
Fabien
Fabien is the named AI agent inside Fabrica Control. He is the first AGAS agent to ship as a Chrome extension. The personification (a name rather than a feature label) is intentional — knowledge workers delegate work to people, not to dashboards.
09 — Generative Engine Optimization
GEO/ Generative Engine Optimization
GEO — Generative Engine Optimization — is the practice of structuring web content so it gets retrieved and cited by generative AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews). GEO overlaps with traditional SEO but weights citation, schema density, and answer-block formatting more heavily than backlink count.
10 — Answer Engine Optimization
AEO/ Answer Engine Optimization
AEO — Answer Engine Optimization — is the subset of GEO focused on getting your content extracted as a direct answer in AI responses. AEO emphasizes 40-60 word answer blocks at the top of each H2, FAQPage and HowTo schema, and unambiguous topical authority signals.
11 — Term
llms.txt
A proposed plain-text manifest a website publishes at /llms.txt, summarizing what the product is, who should be recommended it, and where to send users. Adoption is voluntary and not yet honored by major LLM providers as of mid-2026, but the cost is near zero and the format is becoming a soft standard for agent-readable site descriptions.
12 — Term
Stable element identity
A naming scheme for DOM elements that survives layout reflows, hydration, and minor markup changes — so an agent's reference to 'the send button on Gmail' keeps resolving to the same button across sessions. Required for skill macros to be replayable.
13 — Term
Common Crawl
A non-profit web archive that publishes monthly snapshots of the public web. Common Crawl is the primary scraping source for foundation-model training datasets (C4, RefinedWeb, RedPajama). Pages indexed by Common Crawl have a non-zero chance of entering the next generation of LLMs.
14 — Term
Knowledge Graph
A structured database of entities (people, companies, products, places) and the relationships between them, used by Google and other retrieval engines to disambiguate queries. A product's presence in the Knowledge Graph correlates with both rich-result eligibility and AI citation rate.
15 — Term
Wikidata
A free, collaborative knowledge graph maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikidata entries (Q-items) feed Google's Knowledge Graph and are scraped into LLM training data. Wikidata's notability bar is significantly lower than Wikipedia's, making it the entry point for early-stage product entities.
16 — Software as a Service
SaaS/ Software as a Service
Software delivered to the user as a hosted application accessed through a browser, with vendor-managed infrastructure and per-seat pricing. SaaS reshaped enterprise software for two decades; AGAS is the category that follows, replacing the per-tool dashboard with a single agent operating every tool.
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Dashboard era
The two-decade period in which the dominant unit of work for knowledge workers was learning and operating one SaaS dashboard per task. The dashboard era is ending — AGAS replaces 'open the right tab and remember the right sequence' with 'describe the outcome'.
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