Glossary - Entire
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28 terms
| Glossary term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agent | An AI coding assistant connected to Entire, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Factory, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, or Pi. |
| Agent run | One execution of an agent inside a session. Entire compares your work before each run with the agent’s changes so line attribution can stay accurate. |
| Checkpoint | A save point for your work. Entire creates checkpoints around agent activity and links committed checkpoints to Git commits. |
| Checkpoint ID | A 12-character hexadecimal identifier for a checkpoint, such as 8a513f56ed70. You can find checkpoint IDs in the CLI and Entire.io. |
| Checkpoint linking | The connection between a Git commit and the Entire checkpoint that captured the session context behind it. |
| Checkpoint remote | A Git remote used to store checkpoint metadata separately from your code remote. By default, Entire pushes checkpoint metadata to your code remote. |
| Checkpoints branch | The permanent Git branch where Entire stores checkpoint and session metadata. The branch is named entire/checkpoints/v1. |
| Commit trailer | Structured metadata appended to a Git commit message. Entire uses trailers such as Entire-Checkpoint and Entire-Attribution. |
| Committed checkpoint | A checkpoint permanently linked to a Git commit and stored on the checkpoints branch. |
| Dispatch | A markdown summary of recent agent work across one or more repositories, branches, and time windows. |
| Entire CLI | The command line tool that records sessions, creates checkpoints, links commits, and syncs metadata. |
| Entire.io | The web application for browsing repositories, sessions, checkpoints, dispatches, and agent activity captured by Entire. |
| Entire Repository | A Git repository stored in EntireDB, Entire’s distributed Git database. Creating a mirror stores a synced copy of an existing GitHub repository on the same network. |
| Entire-Attribution | A commit trailer that records how much of a commit came from the agent versus a human. |
| Entire-Checkpoint | A commit trailer that records the checkpoint ID associated with a commit. |
| Line attribution | Entire’s calculation of how many changed lines in a commit were written by the agent and how many were written by a human. |
| Metadata | Structured data Entire records about sessions and checkpoints, including timestamps, agent type, token usage, attribution, and configuration. |
| Mirror | A synced, read-optimized copy of a GitHub repository, hosted on Entire’s Git network in a chosen region. The repository stays on GitHub, while the mirror provides an entire:// remote that agents, automation, or selected users can clone from, fetch from, and push through. |
| Nested session | A child session created when an agent spawns another agent or sub-agent during the same body of work. |
| Rewind | Restoring your worktree to an earlier checkpoint during an active session. |
| Semantic Search | Search indexed Entire history by phrase, meaning, or agent context to find related checkpoints, sessions, and commits. |
| Session | A complete interaction with an AI coding agent from start to finish. Sessions include prompts, responses, code changes, checkpoints, token usage, metadata, and line attribution. |
| Session branch | A Git branch used to store captured session data without adding commits to your working branch. |
| Session context | The prompts, responses, tool activity, code changes, and metadata that explain what happened during a session. |
| Shadow branch | A temporary local branch used to store checkpoints during active sessions. Shadow branches are named like entire/<sessionID>-<worktreeID> and are not pushed to remote repositories. |
| Skill | A reusable workflow that helps an agent use Entire history, checkpoints, and session context for a specific task. |
| Token usage | Counts of input tokens, output tokens, cache creation tokens, cache reads, and API calls recorded for a checkpoint or session. |
| Worktree ID | An opaque identifier Entire uses as part of a shadow branch name to distinguish active worktrees. |