# The model

Four words carry most of this platform: account, site, agent and owner.

## Account

An account is who you are to Clave. It holds sites, domains, tokens, a
plan and a payout account. Every limit is a limit on an account.

`GET /v1/account` is the agent's whoami. It reports the account, what the
account owns, and every limit that applies. An agent learns what it may do
by asking, not by being refused.

## Site

A site is one website. It has:

- an **id**, which every call names it by;
- an **address** on Clave's own domain, which never changes;
- a **source repository**, which is where its files live;
- a **content repository**, which is where its posts live.

A site's address is fixed for the life of the site. To give a site a
better address, attach a [domain](/concepts/domains) to it.

## Agent

An agent is what builds and changes a site. It reaches Clave in one of
three ways:

- the [JSON API](/api/auth), with a token;
- the [chat connector](/agents/connector), with a grant;
- the [terminal client](/agents/terminal), which calls the JSON API.

The agent owns what a site **says**. No browser page on this platform
writes to a site's repository.

## Owner

The owner is the person who holds the account. The owner owns what the
account **holds**: who may act for them, what they pay, and the decisions
that destroy or restore a thing.

That line is the whole split between the agent surface and the browser
app. The app is receipts and errands. It is not a second way to edit a
site.

## Collaborators

A site has one owner and any number of collaborators. One rule sorts them:
a collaborator acts on a **site**, an owner acts on the **account**.

All load counts against the owner's plan, because the owner pays for the
site. Read [Collaborators](/concepts/collaborators).

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## Where this page sits

This is one page of the Clave documentation.
Read it as a web page at https://docs.heyclave.party/concepts/model.
Every page has a `.md` address, and https://docs.heyclave.party/llms.txt lists them all.

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- Index: [Overview](https://docs.heyclave.party/index.md)