docs: add terminology guide#130
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With agents expected to perform much of this repository's development, this PR establishes shared terminology to
guide their wording in code and pull requests and keep maintainers and contributors aligned on the meaning
of core concepts.
The guide aligns project vocabulary with current OpenAI documentation while preserving project-specific terms where
the implementation has a distinct concept. In particular, it separates OpenAI tool categories from execution
location: new prose should use terms such as built-in tool, gateway-executed built-in tool,
client-executed function tool, and upstream-hosted built-in tool instead of the ambiguous
gateway/client/provider-owned vocabulary.
Summary
TERMINOLOGY.mdwith a list of accepted terms and definitions.boundaries.
relevant to tool loops.
tool_useandtool_result.TERMINOLOGY.mdfromAGENTS.mdand make it normative for future project prose.Test Plan
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