# Core Concepts - [Overview](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/overview.md) - [Seam Console](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/seam-console.md): Use Seam Console to manage your Seam workspaces, Connect Webviews, devices, and systems; generate API keys; use the Seam Online CLI; and perform other tasks. - [Seam Online CLI](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/seam-console/seam-online-cli.md): Use the interactive Seam Online CLI as a user-friendly and efficient way to explore and test the Seam API from within Seam Console. - [Workspaces](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/workspaces.md): Workspaces are the top-level resource in the Seam ecosystem. They encapsulate all other resources, such as devices, events, and connected third-party accounts. - [Authentication](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/authentication.md): You can use any of several methods to authenticate with the Seam API. - [API Keys](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/authentication/api-keys.md): Create an API key for authorization that enables you to control devices connected to a specific Seam workspace. - [Personal Access Tokens](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/authentication/personal-access-tokens.md): Create a Personal Access Token to access multiple Seam workspaces using a single credential. - [Client Sessions and Client Session Tokens](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/authentication/client-session-tokens.md): Use a client session token to restrict access to the devices that a specific user owns. - [Implementing Client Sessions for Device Management in the Backend](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/authentication/client-session-tokens/implementing-client-sessions-for-device-management-in-the-backend.md): Learn how to use client sessions to control your users' access to devices. - [Connect Webviews](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/connect-webviews.md): Use Connect Webviews to connect your users' devices or access control system to Seam. Your users authorize your app to control these devices or ACS with the Seam API. - [Connect Webview Process](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/connect-webviews/connect-webview-process.md): Learn how to create, display, and complete Connect Webviews to connect devices and systems to Seam. - [Embedding a Connect Webview in Your App](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/connect-webviews/embedding-a-connect-webview-in-your-app.md): Use redirection or an iframe to embed a Connect Webview in your app. - [Verifying Successful Account Connection](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/connect-webviews/verifying-successful-account-connection.md): Learn how to find out when your user's device or ACS account has connected successfully to Seam. - [Retrieving Devices or Access Control Systems Connected Through a Connect Webview](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/connect-webviews/retrieving-devices-or-access-control-systems-connected-through-a-connect-webview.md): Learn how to retrieve the set of devices or ACS that your app user connected to Seam through a specific Connect Webview. - [Attaching Custom Metadata to the Connect Webview](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/connect-webviews/attaching-custom-data-to-the-connect-webview.md): Use custom metadata to link internal IDs from your application to a Seam Connect Webview and connected account. - [Filtering Connect Webviews by Custom Metadata](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/connect-webviews/filtering-connect-webviews-by-custom-metadata.md): When listing Connect Webviews, you can filter by custom metadata. - [Customizing Connect Webviews](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/connect-webviews/customizing-connect-webviews.md): You can customize the look and feel, brand list, and behavior of your Connect Webviews. - [Devices](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/devices.md): Devices are objects like locks, thermostats, or sensors. In the Seam API, devices have capabilities that describe the functions that they can perform, as well as online and managed status. - [Displaying Device Health](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/devices/displaying-device-health.md): You can display the health status of your end users' devices in your app. - [Displaying Device Power Status](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/devices/displaying-device-power-status.md): You can display the power status of your end users' devices in your app. - [Managed and Unmanaged Devices](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/devices/managed-and-unmanaged-devices.md): You can indicate the devices in your workspace that you intend to control using the Seam API. - [Adding Custom Metadata to a Device](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/devices/adding-custom-metadata-to-a-device.md): You can add or change custom metadata for a device. - [Filtering Devices by Custom Metadata](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/devices/filtering-devices-by-custom-metadata.md): When listing devices, you can filter by custom metadata. - [Handling Device Errors](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/devices/handling-device-errors.md): Learn the device errors for which you should add handling to your app. - [Testing Your App Against Device Disconnection and Removal](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/devices/testing-your-app-against-device-disconnection-and-removal.md): Learn how to use the Seam suite of simulate endpoints to test your app against events that are difficult to orchestrate in your quality assurance environment. - [Providers](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/providers.md): Learn how to find out information about the providers that Seam supports. - [Provider Metadata](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/providers/provider-metadata.md): Learn about provider metadata that is used to provide data about a device that can't be or hasn't yet been standardized across all providers. - [Connected Accounts](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/connected-accounts.md): External third-party accounts to which your user has authorized Seam to get access - [Adding Custom Metadata to a Connected Account](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/connected-accounts/adding-custom-metadata-to-a-connected-account.md): You can add or change custom metadata for a connected account. - [Filtering Connected Accounts by Custom Metadata](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/connected-accounts/filtering-connected-accounts-by-custom-metadata.md): When listing connected accounts, you can filter by custom metadata. - [Reconnecting an Account](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/connected-accounts/reconnecting-an-account.md): Learn why an account may become disconnected and how to reconnect it. - [Mapping Your Resources to Seam Resources](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/mapping-your-resources-to-seam-resources.md): Learn how Seam makes it easy to tag Seam resources with your own internal IDs. - [Action Attempts](https://docs.seam.co/latest/core-concepts/action-attempts.md): Learn about action attempts and how they help you to track the progress of asynchronous actions in the physical world. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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