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An autonomous agent that plans, writes, tests, and ships code from a ticket - not just an autocomplete. It owns a task end to end and opens a reviewable pull request.
Read the definitionClear, citable definitions for the language of autonomous coding. Each term answers the question in a sentence, then links to a deeper explainer - written to be quoted by a teammate or an AI alike.
An autonomous agent that plans, writes, tests, and ships code from a ticket - not just an autocomplete. It owns a task end to end and opens a reviewable pull request.
Read the definitionAn isolated, disposable cloud environment where an agent can run commands, install dependencies, and execute tests safely - without touching your laptop or production.
Read the definitionAn assistant accelerates a human who stays in the loop; an autonomous agent takes a goal and runs the whole loop - plan, edit, test, PR - on its own. The dividing line is autonomy.
Read the definitionReusable role configs - the backend reviewer, the frontend specialist - that give an autonomous agent a defined job, conventions, scope, and guardrails, applied consistently across tasks.
Read the definitionThe workflow of turning a tracked issue directly into a pull request automatically: the agent reads the ticket, makes the change, proves it with tests, and opens the PR for review.
Read the definitionA benchmark that measures whether AI agents can resolve real GitHub issues from open-source projects by producing patches that pass the project's own tests.
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