📚 Definitions of technical terms for a better understanding of customGPT.
API Key
An API key is a unique code generated by an API that provides authorized access to its features and helps to track and manage API usage, enforce access controls, and monitor API traffic. Get the API Key for the customGPT by following the QuickStart Guide here.
Dashboard
CustomGPT's dashboard visually represents key performance indicators and other important data that allows users to monitor and analyze their website's performance and metrics in real time.
Agent
An agent is a single AI-powered chatbot trained on your data and available in the subscription plans, with the standard plan allowing for the creation of 10 chatbots. In contrast, the higher pricing plans offer support for more custom chatbots, enabling customers to create separate chatbots for their website content and support documents for internal use.
API Terminology: Agents vs. Projects
In the CustomGPT.ai API, agents are referred to as projects in endpoint URLs, request/response structures, and parameters. While our platform has fully transitioned to using the term agents across the UI and documentation, the API retains the legacy terminology for backward compatibility.
When interacting with the API, any reference to "projects" in endpoints, request bodies, query parameters, or responses corresponds to "agents" in the current system.
Project/Agent ID
An ID is a unique identifier assigned to a specific agent that enables access to agent-specific resources and services.
Private Mode
This mode allows users to use the bot for internal use in private mode via the dashboard.
Public Mode
This mode embeds the CustomGPT chatbot on the website for customers and employees to engage with employees, clients, or friends.
Protected Mode
This mode permits sharing with team members and employees for auditing trails and controlled usage.
Sitemap_path
This specifies the path of the sitemap for a particular agent.
White-Label Customization
White-label customizes your CustomGPT chatbot to create a branded experience for the customers and employees with the desired settings. It can customize the logo, background color, or image to align with the brand’s visual identity. You can also customize the Chatbot language and default source the Chatbot uses to respond.
XML sitemap
An XML sitemap is a structured file that contains all the URLs of a website along with information on the frequency of changes and priority of each page. customGPT uses the website XML sitemap to search engines to improve the crawling and indexing of a website in creating a customized chatbot.