Glossary

The words you will come across in the app and in this documentation, grouped by theme.

Epic Games and your islands

Device: a UEFN game object, such as a button, a dispenser or a counter, that you place and configure.

Discover: the Fortnite page where players find islands. The thumbnails are made for it.

Epic Games: the publisher of Fortnite and UEFN. Island Pilot is not affiliated with Epic Games.

HUD: what is displayed on top of the game, such as counters and bars.

Île (island, or map): a game created in Fortnite by a creator.

Lore: Epic Games’ version system for UEFN projects. Island Pilot shows it read-only, in the Versions tab.

Niagara: Unreal’s visual effects system, used by the Niagara VFX specialist.

Portail créateur (Creator Portal): the Epic Games website where you manage and publish your islands.

UEFN: Unreal Editor for Fortnite, the Epic Games editor for creating islands.

.uefnproject: the file of a UEFN project. The folder that contains it becomes the workspace in Island Pilot.

Verse: the Epic Games programming language for island gameplay. See Verse.

Widget Blueprint: an interface screen in UEFN. The UI Engineer builds them.

AI

CLI: a program without a window, controlled by commands. Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI and OpenCode are CLIs. Island Pilot launches them for you.

Clé API (API key): a technical password provided by a service, which allows an application to use it on your behalf. It is tied to your account and its billing.

Compte IA (AI account): your subscription or your key with an AI provider. See Connect an AI account.

Contexte (Context): what the model receives in order to answer: messages, instructions, memory, tool results. Its size is limited.

Crédits (Credits): the paid unit of some services, such as Meshy.

Effort de raisonnement (Reasoning effort): the thinking time requested from the model, when it offers this.

Fournisseur d’IA (AI provider): the company that runs the model: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenCode or xAI.

Modèle (Model): the AI program that thinks and writes. Each provider offers several.

Moteur (Engine): what an agent runs on: a provider, a model and an effort. See Choose the engine and model.

Passerelle (Gateway): the Island Pilot module that connects it to an AI provider. It is installed and enabled in Store & connexions (Store & connections).

Quota: how much your subscription lets you use over a period. The provider sets it.

Token: the unit in which models count text, roughly a piece of a word.

Agents

Activité (Activity): the panel where each action of the agents is displayed, with the approvals to give.

Agent: an AI to which Island Pilot gives a role, guidelines, Skills and tools. Each agent has its profile.

Ask, Plan, Agent: the three modes of a conversation. Ask answers and Plan prepares, without changing anything. Agent creates and edits with the tools. See The modes.

Compétence apprise (Learned skill): a method that an agent has checked in your project and keeps for the following ones. See Learned skills.

Conversation libre (Free conversation): a conversation without an agent profile.

Délégation (Delegation): when the orchestrator entrusts a mission to a specialist.

Mémoire du projet (Project memory): the Pilot/PROJECT.md file, read by every agent and kept up to date by them. See Project memory.

Orchestrateur (Orchestrator): the agent that breaks an objective down and shares it out among the specialists. See The orchestrator.

Recette (Recipe): a guided, step-by-step UEFN task to start in a conversation. See Recipes.

Skill: a know-how guide that an agent loads depending on the task. See Skills.

Spécialiste (Specialist): an agent dedicated to one trade, such as Verse Coder or Level Designer. See The specialists.

Connections

Coffre Windows (Windows vault): the Windows credential manager, where Island Pilot stores your keys. See Keys and vault.

Identité du projet (Project identity): the check that confirms that the island open in UEFN really is the project’s island. Without it, Island Pilot blocks changes in the editor.

MCP (Model Context Protocol): a standard that lets an AI use the tools of a piece of software.

Serveur MCP (MCP server): the program that makes these tools available. UEFN’s runs on your PC and is enabled in the editor. See Connect UEFN.

Store & connexions (Store & connections): the section where you install and enable gateways, connections and Skills. See Store and connections.

3D

Blender: free 3D creation software. See Blender.

GLB, FBX: 3D model file formats.

Higgsfield: an online service for generating images and videos. See Higgsfield.

Meshy: an online service that generates models, textures, rigs and animations. See Meshy.

Retopologie (Retopology): rebuilding the mesh of a 3D model, to make it lighter or animatable.

Rig: the skeleton that allows a 3D model to be animated.

Texture: the image applied to the surface of a 3D model.

Tripo: an online service that generates 3D models. See Tripo.

Your project

Dossier Pilot (Pilot folder): the project subfolder where Island Pilot stores what it produces: memory, generated images, interface, thumbnails. See Where your files are.

Projet (Project): in Island Pilot, an island with its conversations, its agents and its settings. See Your first project.

UEFN Core: the area of the Explorer that shows the Verse folder generated by UEFN.

Workspace: the project folder on your PC. With their file tools, the agents cannot read or write outside it. It is also the name of the app’s main view.

Your purchase

Accès (Access): one person’s right to use Island Pilot, on one computer at a time. The Solo plan includes one, the Duo plan two.

Clé de licence (Licence key): the code that starts with UEFNP-, received after purchase. It serves as a fallback if your licence is not found automatically.

Compte Island Pilot (Island Pilot account): your email address, with no password. See Sign in.

Espace client (Client area): your page on the website, with the key and the download: islandpilot.app/account.

Licence: your right to use Island Pilot, with no time limit. See Licence and computer.