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Every write answers its new record's OID as _id:

{"_id": "Qs7HRQnMTg", "status": "created"}
Term Meaning
ANN Approximate nearest-neighbor vector search: the $knn and $sparseKnn query operators.
Capability A named group of operations (data, account, query...) that a role or an agent session can be granted or denied.
Descriptor The typed metadata the server keeps for one operation: its name, route, schema and scope.
JSC JavaScriptCore, the JavaScript engine your functions and $whereJS run in.
KV Values stored and read by key, from db.kv() in a function or the kv.* operations; see KV.
OID The id every write answers as _id.
Operation ID The stable number identifying one operation; ai.tool.invoke takes one to call a discovered tool.
RAG Retrieval-augmented generation: vector search for the passages a prompt is built from.
Registry version The version number of the server's whole operation set, named at the top of the HTTP API reference.
View A stored result of a query, computed ahead of time so reading it skips re-running that query; see views.