diff --git a/src/commands/connect.ts b/src/commands/connect.ts
index d2a647e..460820a 100644
--- a/src/commands/connect.ts
+++ b/src/commands/connect.ts
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ export async function runConnect(
   // An extra opening notice from the caller — shown in the app instead of
   // printed beforehand, which would land in scrollback behind the app.
   startupNotice?: string,
-  // The agent config name from the caller (e.g. `start --connect`); when
+  // The automation name from the caller (e.g. `start --connect`); when
   // absent it is derived from the fetched session. Shown in the footer meta
   // line.
   configName?: string,
diff --git a/src/commands/environment.ts b/src/commands/environment.ts
index a51ed7c..748a848 100644
--- a/src/commands/environment.ts
+++ b/src/commands/environment.ts
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ export function registerEnvironment(program: Command): void {
         const e = created.environment
         console.log(`✓ created "${e.name}" (${e.id}) — live now`)
         console.log(
-          'Reference it from agent configs (`environment: ' +
+          'Reference it from automations (`environment: ' +
             e.name +
             '`) or start a session in it: `agent session start -e ' +
             e.name +
diff --git a/src/commands/model.ts b/src/commands/model.ts
index 6b8e76e..afcaad1 100644
--- a/src/commands/model.ts
+++ b/src/commands/model.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ export function registerModel(program: Command): void {
       model
         .command('list')
         .description(
-          'List the models an agent config can select (the account default is marked)',
+          'List the models an automation can select (the account default is marked)',
         ),
       'ls',
     ),
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export function registerModel(program: Command): void {
           ['ID', 'NAME', 'DEFAULT'],
           models.map((m) => [m.id, m.display_name, m.is_default_agent_model ? 'yes' : '']),
         )
-        console.log('\nSelect one by setting `model:` under `claude:` in your agent config YAML.')
+        console.log('\nSelect one by setting `model:` under `claude:` in your automation YAML.')
       })
     })
 }
diff --git a/src/commands/review.ts b/src/commands/review.ts
index 4b4599b..2c76537 100644
--- a/src/commands/review.ts
+++ b/src/commands/review.ts
@@ -173,10 +173,10 @@ export function registerReview(program: Command): void {
   registerReviewInit(review)
 }
 
-// `agent review init`: the code review twin of `agent config init`. Scaffolds a
+// `agent review init`: the code review twin of `agent automation init`. Scaffolds a
 // starter pipeline YAML locally; you commit it and Ellipsis syncs it from
-// GitHub. No API call and no pull request, because `agent config create` posts
-// an agent config and a pipeline is a different kind of file.
+// GitHub. No API call and no pull request, because `agent automation create` posts
+// an automation and a pipeline is a different kind of file.
 function registerReviewInit(review: Command): void {
   review
     .command('init [path]')
diff --git a/src/commands/session.tsx b/src/commands/session.tsx
index bd9d12d..cbaa897 100644
--- a/src/commands/session.tsx
+++ b/src/commands/session.tsx
@@ -267,10 +267,14 @@ export function registerSession(program: Command): void {
           // UI shows it in its footer meta line (anything printed before the
           // app would land in scrollback); every other mode prints this note.
           let configNote: string | undefined
-          const environmentSource = session.environment?.source
+          // Widened to string: `automation` replaced `agent_config` on the wire
+          // (SDK 0.28.0); the pinned SDK's enum predates it.
+          const environmentSource: string | null | undefined = session.environment?.source
           if (session.environment?.environment_id && environmentSource !== 'request') {
             const label =
-              environmentSource === 'agent_config' ? 'from the agent config' : environmentSource
+              environmentSource === 'automation' || environmentSource === 'agent_config'
+                ? 'from the automation'
+                : environmentSource
             const note = `using environment ${session.environment.environment_id} (${label})`
             configNote = configNote ? `${configNote}; ${note}` : note
           }
@@ -846,7 +850,7 @@ function deepMerge(
   return out
 }
 
-// Parse an inline agent config from disk, choosing the parser by file
+// Parse an inline automation config from disk, choosing the parser by file
 // extension: .yaml/.yml as YAML, .json as JSON. (YAML is a JSON superset, so
 // unknown extensions fall back to YAML, which still accepts JSON input.)
 export function readConfigFile(path: string): Record<string, unknown> {
diff --git a/src/lib/sessions.ts b/src/lib/sessions.ts
index d30e2f9..6df5ab0 100644
--- a/src/lib/sessions.ts
+++ b/src/lib/sessions.ts
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ export function withContextRepository(
 // --------------------------- new-session picker ---------------------------
 
 // One row of a composer picker. `group` and `rate` are what the model list
-// uses and the other two pickers leave unset: repositories and agent configs
+// uses and the other two pickers leave unset: repositories and automations
 // are flat lists of names with no vendor to group under and no price to quote.
 export type ComposerModel = {
   id: string | null
diff --git a/src/lib/types.ts b/src/lib/types.ts
index ddc0bf5..b2b87cc 100644
--- a/src/lib/types.ts
+++ b/src/lib/types.ts
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ export interface ListAgentSessionsQuery {
   // attributed to that developer. The CLI resolves it from a --author login.
   author_id?: number
   // "owner/name" or a bare repository name. Sessions that name their
-  // repository only inside their agent config — dashboard starts, cron runs,
+  // repository only inside their automation — dashboard starts, cron runs,
   // handoffs — do not match.
   repo?: string
   // Keep only the conversations still going (live or sleeping), dropping the
diff --git a/src/ui/ConnectApp.tsx b/src/ui/ConnectApp.tsx
index 96c6226..70f4b15 100644
--- a/src/ui/ConnectApp.tsx
+++ b/src/ui/ConnectApp.tsx
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ export interface ConnectAppProps {
   // The session's model (backend tokens_model, fixed at creation), shown in
   // the footer meta line.
   model?: string | null
-  // The session's agent config (resolved name, falling back to the config
+  // The session's automation (resolved name, falling back to the config
   // id), shown in the footer meta line when the session has one.
   configName?: string | null
   // Written (not read) by the app: set true when the app exits because the
@@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ export function ConnectApp(props: ConnectAppProps): React.ReactElement {
   )
 
   // The persistent footer status line: status, running spend, model,
-  // session id (the dashboard link), agent config (when the session has
+  // session id (the dashboard link), automation (when the session has
   // one), CLI version. Per-step costs live on the transcript's metadata
   // column, so the footer carries the total alone. Command hints live in
   // --help. The total prefers the server's ledger figure (live via the