.. _glossary:

Glossary
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* **TAC**: Trading Agent Competition.
* **Controller agent**: a special agent that manages the TAC and does not compete.
* **Participant**: a developer/team of developers that want to create their trading agent.
* **Trading agent**: the piece of software that trades goods with other agents during the competition.
* **OEF Node**: an instance of the `OEF node <https://github.com/fetchai/oef-core.git>`_, Fetch's multi-agent platform.
* `OEF Python SDK <https://github.com/fetchai/oef-sdk-python/>`_: the SDK for agent development (`docs <https://fetchai.github.io/oef-sdk-python/>`_).