Concepts

Introduces the core Stubber concepts used across templates, stubs, actions, substitutions, permissions, integrations, and platform data models.

This section explains the core ideas you'll encounter throughout the rest of the documentation — what a stub is, how templates define processes, how data flows through actions, and how people and permissions fit together. It's reference material rather than step-by-step instructions: read the parts you need, when you need them.

# Where to start

If you're new to Stubber, the following pages cover the ground floor:

• Overview — what Stubber is, in one page.
• The Stubber Framework — the conceptual model the platform is built on.
• Templates and Stubs — the single most important distinction in the platform.
• Template Structure — how a template is laid out.
• States and Actions — how a process actually progresses.

# How this section is organized

The pages in this section fall into a few loose groups:

• Foundations — Overview, Framework, Templates and Stubs, Template Structure, Stubref.
• Building blocks — States and Actions, Action Execution, State Hooks, Template Inheritance, Conditions, Naming Conventions.
• Data — Data Structures, Variable Substitution, StubberDB, Stub Session.
• People and permissions — Orgs, Contacts, Teams and Permissions, Responsibility and Accountability, Credentials.
• Capabilities and integrations — Knowledge Library Articles, Virtual Worker, Webhooks, Public Forms, LIDs, Short URLs.
• Reference — Libraries, Stubbucks.

For building work — templates, layouts, actions, blocks — see Templates. For the applications you'll use day-to-day (Console, Builder, Stubs), see Platform.