MetaPilot Domain Glossary

Glossary Terms

A

• ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface): The standard interface replacing WSGI in Python for handling asynchronous HTTP requests and WebSockets (implemented via Daphne).
• Audit Log: A persistent security log tracking critical administrative and operational actions across MetaPilot.

C

• Celery: An asynchronous distributed task queue used by MetaPilot to execute background jobs and mass broadcasts.
• Celery Beat: A periodic task scheduler daemon that dispatches cron jobs into Redis task queues.

F

• Fernet: A symmetric encryption specification (

  cryptography.fernet.Fernet

  ) using AES-256 in CBC mode with HMAC SHA-256 for secret encryption.

H

• HSM (Highly Structured Message): Pre-approved WhatsApp message templates containing placeholders used for marketing and utility broadcasts.

J

• JWT (JSON Web Token): Statistically signed tokens used for user authentication and state authorization (

  rest_framework_simplejwt

  ).

M

• Meta Graph API: The official Meta REST API (version

  v22.0

  ) used for sending WhatsApp messages and receiving webhooks.
• Modular Monolith: An architectural style structuring a single application codebase into decoupled, self-contained domain modules.

R

• RBAC (Role-Based Access Control): Authorization system restricting access to resources based on assigned roles (

  SUPER_ADMIN

  ,

  AGENCY_ADMIN

  ,

  TENANT_ADMIN

  ,

  TENANT_USER

  ).
• Redis: An in-memory data store used by MetaPilot as a Celery task broker, result backend, and Django Channels layer.

T

• Tenant: An isolated client organization account within MetaPilot.
• Token Bucket: A rate-limiting algorithm enforcing a maximum burst capacity and continuous token refill rate (50 msgs/sec).

W

• WBA (WhatsApp Business Account): Meta WhatsApp Business entity linked to a tenant's phone number ID.
• wamid: Unique WhatsApp Message ID returned by Meta Cloud API upon message dispatch (e.g.

  wamid.HBgL...

  ).