"AI" covers very different tools. The team needs one that can work on your computer, which most chat apps can't. Here's the difference, and the other words this site uses.
ChatGPT, the Claude app, Gemini
Can't run the team
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot
Can run the team
Any of those, with Agentic Team installed
This is what the site teaches
An AI you talk to in a chat window or app, such as ChatGPT, the Claude app or Gemini. It can write a lot, code included, but it can't open the files on your computer or run anything there. You'd be copying and pasting by hand.
Fine for questions. The team can't run here.
An AI that works inside a folder on your computer. It reads and changes files and runs commands, and usually asks before anything risky. Claude Code and Codex run in the terminal. Cursor is an app with a chat panel. Most need a paid plan from the AI company, so check the price first.
This is where the team runs. Claude Code is the best tested today.
An AI given a job and the tools for it, which works through the steps by itself instead of answering one message at a time. A coding assistant is an agent. Agentic Team gives it ten job descriptions, so it can play ten agents: Ella, Priya, Ian, Vera and the rest.
When this site says "the team", it means those ten agents.
What you type to the AI. You only need one to start: the line that tells it to be Ella, followed by your idea.
A window where you type commands instead of clicking. On a Mac it's the Terminal app, and on Linux any terminal works. Windows hasn't been tested yet. Git Bash, which comes with Git for Windows, is the likeliest to work.
You'll paste a few commands into it, once per project.
The folder on your computer that holds your app's files, for example ~/code/family-groceries.
You open your coding assistant inside it, so the AI works on the right files.
A free program that saves snapshots of your project's files, called commits, so every change is recorded and can be undone.
You install it once. The agents use it for you after that.
A website that keeps your project online, with its whole history, under your own account. A basic account is free.
The team writes its plans, tasks and test results there, so nothing lives only in an AI's memory.
One project's files plus their whole history. Your repository lives on your computer and on GitHub, kept in step.
A to-do note on GitHub, like a ticket. Each piece of work the team does has one, with its handoffs and results written underneath.
A proposed change to the project, shown before it's added. Vera checks it, the automatic checks run on it, and only then is it added.
A working copy of your app at a private link, so you can try it before anyone else sees it.
You'll be asked to try one before each launch.
Putting your app online for real people to use. It never happens without your yes.
Hosting is the service your app runs on. A database is where its data is kept. You sign up for them yourself, and many have free tiers.
Bea lists the options and monthly costs in your plan.