Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖 Carolopedia › ModelGuide page
📖What it means
The language model that answers a call — the thing that actually does the reasoning. Which model serves a request is decided by the lane and by the registry, never by the code at the call site typing a name.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Provider
The model is what answers; the provider is the company serving it.
Not: Adapter
The model is the intelligence; the adapter is the code that talks to it.
Not: Agent
A model is a capability an agent uses; the agent is who is accountable.
🗣️Also called
LLMthe modelengine