AI coding and agents glossary
Explore how coding assistants and agents carry out development tasks, how their work is evaluated, and what it takes to measure their contribution.
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150 termsAgent Action Approval
Agent Action Approval is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Action Space
Agent Action Space is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Audit Log
Agent Audit Log is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Authorization
Agent Authorization is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Budget
Agent Budget is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Build Repair
Agent Build Repair is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Change Control
Agent Change Control is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Checkpoint
Agent Checkpoint is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Code Execution Risk
Agent Code Execution Risk is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Code Search
Agent Code Search is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Command Allowlist
Agent Command Allowlist is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Concurrency
Agent Concurrency is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Context Compaction
Agent Context Compaction is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Context Management
Agent Context Management is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Context Poisoning
Agent Context Poisoning is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Controller
Agent Controller is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Coordination
Agent Coordination is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Cost
Agent Cost is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Critic
Agent Critic is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Data Exfiltration
Agent Data Exfiltration is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Data Redaction
Agent Data Redaction is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Data Retention
Agent Data Retention is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Delegation
Agent Delegation is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Dependency Upgrade
Agent Dependency Upgrade is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Developer Experience
Agent Developer Experience is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Developer Productivity
Agent Developer Productivity is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Executor
Agent Executor is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Failure Recovery
Agent Failure Recovery is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Filesystem Isolation
Agent Filesystem Isolation is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Handoff
Agent Handoff is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Human Review
Agent Human Review is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Identity
Agent Identity is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Incident Assistance
Agent Incident Assistance is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Indirect Prompt Injection
Agent Indirect Prompt Injection is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Input Validation
Agent Input Validation is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Least Privilege
Agent Least Privilege is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Loop
Agent Loop is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Memory
Agent Memory is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Memory Store
Agent Memory Store is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Merge Conflict Resolution
Agent Merge Conflict Resolution is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Network Isolation
Agent Network Isolation is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent observability
Agent observability is the practice of collecting and connecting evidence about an AI agent's decisions, model calls, tool use, state, errors, and outcomes. It makes a multi-step agent run inspectable after the fact.
AI coding and agentsAgent Observation
Agent Observation is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Orchestration Pattern
Agent Orchestration Pattern is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Output Validation
Agent Output Validation is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Overreliance
Agent Overreliance is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Parallelism
Agent Parallelism is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Permission
Agent Permission is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Plan Execution
Agent Plan Execution is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
AI coding and agentsAgent Planner
Agent Planner is a software-engineering concept describing how an AI coding system, its tools, or human collaborators handle a defined task.
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