Product language

Understand the words in WTM.

This glossary defines the app’s UI sections and the difference between a model, its files, a scan source, a runtime, and a client handoff.

App map

UI part	What it means
Inventory window	The main three-column window: inventory sidebar, model table, and detail pane.
Inventory sidebar	Scope selections such as All Models, Old, Incomplete, and Issues. Settings is a separate footer action.
Model table	The latest ephemeral scan result. Rows are model installations, not necessarily runnable models.
Detail pane	Facts and actions for the selected installation: artifacts, configurations, runtime verification, clients, and cleanup review.
Settings	The native preferences window with General, Sources, Integrations, and Security panes. Inventory Data and Defaults are in General; extension guidance is in Integrations.

Label	Definition
All Models	All discovered model installations, narrowed by search and filters.
Old	Installations older than the configurable Old after threshold.
Age Unknown	Installations without usable earliest-change evidence.
Incomplete	Installations with partial or missing model evidence.
Issues	Latest scan issues such as stale access or malformed metadata; this is separate from a model installation whose state is Model Issue.

One explicitly enabled and authorized directory boundary. WTM reads that source only.

The logical model, independent of one local copy or file format.

One representation of an identity, including format and optional quantization.

One identity/variant found at one source and path. It does not claim complete, compatible, loaded, or running.

A physical file or provider object such as weights, a manifest, configuration, tokenizer, or metadata.

A generic source where WTM recognizes formats without claiming provider ownership.

Term	Definition
Allocated Size	Physical disk allocation attributed to an installation. It is available in model details; the list uses Inventory Share.
Exact Bytes	The exact allocated byte count in the detail pane.
Inventory Share	Exclusively attributable bytes as a percentage of the active scanned inventory.
Shared	Physical storage referenced by more than one installation.
Unknown	Storage whose ownership cannot be established safely.
Stored	Model data is present on local storage. It is not a runtime or inference claim.
Runtime Verification	Separate observations for integrity, compatibility, validation, runtime state, and ownership.
Loaded / Running	Loaded describes runtime memory; Running describes a concrete runtime instance. Neither means merely stored.

Role	What it does
Storage provider adapter	Read-only discovery of provider identities, artifacts, configurations, completeness, and evidence.
Storage action adapter	Provider-aware cleanup planning; the central executor owns revalidation, Trash, and audit.
Runtime adapter	Compatibility, immutable test-plan construction, health checks, and minimal inference contracts.
Runtime Tool	A configured executable definition used by a runtime adapter.
Client adapter	A reviewed handoff to a consuming application such as OpenClaw or Unsloth Studio.

WTM keeps storage, runtime, and client capabilities separate so the UI is not over-interpreted:

Offline: qualify the subject as Installation: Offline (an inventoried installation is unavailable) or Source: Offline (a scan root or volume is unavailable). Contextual UI labels remain Offline.
Format: storage representation. GGUF and Safetensors identify file formats; Ollama identifies a provider-backed manifest/blob representation, and MLX a structurally recognized MLX-LM directory representation.
Scan counts: model installations found counts local installations, not deduplicated model identities. All Models is the short sidebar label for that scope.
Runtime: Runtime Verification presents evidence in model details; Runtime Tools contains executable definitions in Settings; RuntimeAdapter is the implementation contract for compatibility, test plans, health checks, and inference.
Client handoff: a reviewed launch plan for a consuming application such as OpenClaw or Unsloth Studio.

For the complete mapping, see the repository glossary.