Terminology

• Rivet Engine - The binary running everything related to Rivet
• Client - the user/app connecting to Rivet
• Runner - the client-side runner code
• Runner Protocol - Rivet <-> Runner communication protocol defined as BARE (see engine/sdks/schemas/runner-protocol)
• Runner WF - the rivet-side runner, manages runner lifecycle
• Actor WF - rivet-side actor
• Gateway - A portion of Guard responsible for proxying requests and websockets to actors running on runners
• Runner WS - The runner connects to this to communicate to Rivet