The words we use, defined honestly.

The conversation pane attached to a board. Routes through the ai-proxy edge function. Used to draft plans, generate cards, edit cards, summarize, or push back on assumptions. Token-metered.

A single Hilla project. One board = one company / one product / one launch / one course. Everything for that project lives here: cards, frames, widgets, AI chat, share links. You can have as many boards as your plan allows.

The spatial surface a board renders on. Pannable, zoomable, infinite. Different from a list because position carries meaning — what's next to what, what's grouped, what's parked off to one side.

The atomic unit of work on a board. Has a title, a status, an optional description, optional dependencies, and optional AI history. Lives somewhere on the canvas — usually inside a frame.

The Hilla command-line interface. `npm install -g @hilla/cli`. Generates plans, lists/edits cards, ships boards to Linear or GitHub. Same auth as the web app, scriptable, pipes to jq cleanly.

The metering unit for AI usage. Free plan starts with 25; paid plans have monthly allotments and optional pay-as-you-go overflow. One credit ≈ one short AI action; longer reasoning and plan generation consume more.

A labeled region of the canvas that groups cards. Most boards have a few: Now, Next, Launch, Stuck. Frames don't move with you when you pan; cards inside them do.

A connected third-party service: GitHub, Linear, Stripe, Vercel, PostHog, Sentry, Polar. Auth scopes are minimal — Hilla only requests what a widget actually reads.

See Widget. Used in marketing copy to distinguish the always-fresh tile pattern from static screenshots.

A way for external AI clients (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, ChatGPT) to read and write to your Hilla boards directly. You generate a scoped key in Settings → MCP and add it to the client config.

The full structured output Hilla returns when you describe a project in one sentence. Contains a positioning hypothesis, the surfaces to build, dependencies, a shipping order, and the first batch of cards. Editable on arrival — it's a starting point, not a contract.

A URL that lets a non-account-holder view a board (read-only) or join it as a collaborator. RLS-enforced in the database. Revocable from board settings. The default share is private; you opt into public.

An optional time-boxed grouping of cards on the board. Two-week default. Sprints are descriptive, not prescriptive — Hilla doesn't lock you into Scrum. If sprints don't fit your work, don't use them.

A live tile that pulls real data from an integration (Stripe revenue, Vercel deploys, GitHub Actions, PostHog signups, Sentry errors, Supabase health). Sits on the canvas next to your work so the plan and the reality are on the same surface.