> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tryflowy.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

> ## Agent Instructions
> Flowy is a node-based AI creative platform: you generate images, video, audio, 3D and vector on an infinite Canvas, refine on the Studio timeline, and export or publish from the same project.
> Prefer the Flowy MCP server (https://mcp.tryflowy.ai/mcp) or the REST API at https://apis.tryflowy.ai/v1 for programmatic work. Install with `flowy mcp install` from the @flowy/cli package.
> Credits are workspace-scoped. Generations reserve credits on start and only deduct on success, so failed runs refund automatically.

# Glossary

> Plain definitions for the terms Flowy uses across the canvas, Community, and the API.

## Workspaces and projects

**Workspace**. The top-level container for your work: projects, teammates, and one shared credit wallet. You can belong to several, and switch between them from the rail on the left edge of Creator Studio.

**Project**: a single piece of work inside a workspace, holding one canvas. See [core concepts](/getting-started/concepts) for how workspaces and projects fit together.

## The canvas

**Canvas**: the infinite, node-based editor where you generate and connect ideas. Every project opens into one.

**Node**. The basic unit of the canvas: a piece of content (text, image, video, and more) with a prompt, settings, and connection points that carry context to and from other nodes.

**Generation**. One run of a node: your prompt and any connected inputs go to an AI model, and the result renders inside the node. Non-destructive. Rerun a node as many times as you like.

**Composition**: a node type that layers connected clips, images, and audio into an editable timeline, which opens in full in [Studio](/studio/overview) when you're ready to finish the edit.

**Render**. Exporting a finished, playable file: either a single asset downloaded from a node, or a full composition rendered from Studio's timeline. See [exporting & downloads](/help/exporting).

## Credits

**Credit**: the unit generating spends. Every workspace has one shared wallet; credits are reserved when a generation starts, deducted on success, and refunded automatically on failure. See [how credits work](/billing/credits).

## Flows and the API

**Flow** (a published, reusable app built on a canvas, with defined inputs and outputs) runnable from its own page without opening the canvas behind it, or over the API. See [publishing to Community](/help/publishing-to-community) and [running a flow](/api/running-apps).

**Run**. One execution of a flow: asynchronous, returning immediately with an id you poll until it completes. Distinct from a generation, which is a single node's execution on the canvas.

## Library

**Element**: a reusable character, product, or location kept in your workspace's Library so a subject stays visually consistent across generations, rather than being described from scratch every time.

**Brand kit**, a workspace's packaged identity, logos, colors, fonts, and brand imagery, captured once and applied to generations across any project. See [brand kit](/library/brand-kits).

## Community

**Template**: a project someone has published to Community. Anyone can preview one and remix it into a project of their own.

**Remix**. Copying a template into a project you own: Flowy clones its canvas and media server-side, so the copy is fully yours to edit without touching the original.

## The AI assistant

**Skill**: two related but different things, depending on which surface you're on. On the canvas, a skill is a reusable build pattern the [AI assistant](/canvas/ai/memory-and-skills) learns from your work and replays on a similar request later. Over MCP, a [skill](/api/skills) is an expert instruction pack an external AI agent loads on demand to guide multi-step Flowy work, like directing a multi-shot film or building a brand kit.

**MCP**. The [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io), the open standard Flowy's hosted server uses to connect AI agents like Claude or Cursor directly to your account. See [MCP server](/api/mcp).