At Another Reality Studio, I manage engineers and lead AI enablement for technical and non-technical employees. I spend a lot of time mentoring people on working with agents, including how to be precise about what they want without prescribing every step. We work on building agent skills alongside the human skills needed to use them well.
Agents also let people take on work outside their usual roles. A front-end engineer can work on the back end, or someone without a development background can build a tool for their team. They still need to learn something about the territory they’re entering.
Vocabulary is a useful way into that territory. Learning a word can introduce you to a concept you hadn’t considered and help you recognize when it might be useful. Once you understand it, a single word can communicate an idea that would otherwise take a paragraph to explain to an agent.
I built AgentVocab to help people build that vocabulary.
It connects concepts to everyday work across software engineering, writing, research, product design, and operations. Each entry explains what a term means, when it’s useful, and how to use it in a request. You can read further for examples and distinctions that are easy to miss.
Explore by interest, save useful concepts, and mark the ones you already know. Find something relevant to the work in front of you and try it in your next conversation with an agent.
