TL;DRWhat do thread veterans mean by 'the window,' 'banked reset,' 'proximity,' or 'yolo'? This dictionary covers the high-frequency 2026 terms in three groups — quota, mechanics, ecosystem — one line each, flagging which are official vocabulary and which are community slang.
Sources SOURCES
Distilled from public community discussions. This page only breaks them down and verifies — it never reposts the original; opinions belong to their authors.
Facts FACTS
Check these claims against the listed sources. For allowance mechanics, first-party account displays outrank community summaries.
- Official concepts (limits, banked reset, MCP, skills) are defined by the official help docs and release announcements.
- Community slang (full-send / ration, proximity, heavy days) has no official definition; this site and the community use it by convention.
Concepts CONCEPTS
Not everything said in a community thread is a fact — each concept carries its nature label. Read the label first.
OpenAI gives five-hour usage estimates and says weekly limits may apply. Exact limits and reset times are shown per account; the public documentation does not expose a universal refill formula.
An announced reset follows the scope in its source; a banked reset is an account-specific option with its own terms and expiry. A full banked reset refreshes both allowances and changes the weekly reset date.
This site's and the community's name for 'days since the last reset ÷ average gap,' plus the action advice that falls out of it: full-send = use it freely, ration = hold back. The radar verdict on this site's homepage is exactly this computation with a friendlier name. Community slang.
Loosening approvals so the agent completes tasks on its own; yolo specifically denotes the high-risk tier with approvals (and even the sandbox) switched off. The official flags exist; community usage is broader. The slang flattens a spectrum into one word — always check which tier a poster actually means.
skills are reusable task-playbook packs; MCP is the open protocol for external data and tools; goal mode is a stable feature shifting toward goal-driven execution, per 2026-06 reporting. The first two are official concepts; goal mode goes by the official release. Three different layers of the extension story: playbooks for tasks, pipes for data, and a shift in how goals are expressed.
A personal management method of concentrating heavy tasks into specific days and the head of windows. Pure community slang — several articles on this site give operationalized versions. The vocabulary is informal; the underlying idea — align task weight with quota availability — is as practical as it gets.
Takeaways TAKEAWAYS
Read terms in layers: take official concepts by their document definitions (windows, banked resets, MCP) and community slang by its usage context (full-send, heavy days). Treating slang as official terminology — or official terminology as loose slang — is the root of two recurring argument genres. When two people argue past each other about 'the limit,' it is usually this layer confusion in disguise.
This dictionary will go stale as the ecosystem moves — the new words added in 2026 alone (Sites, goal mode, Sol Ultra) outnumber the entire previous year. A freshness heuristic: if a term is absent from the official release notes, suspect it is one reviewer's private coinage.
Suggested usage: hit an unfamiliar word, grab the one-line definition here first, and only chase the deeper dive through the source pointers into the matching breakdown article. The dictionary is an entry point, not a destination — and when a term is missing here entirely, that absence is data too: the ecosystem moved, and this page needs an update.
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