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The words you come across in Coodoo, in plain language.
Coodoo uses GitHub's real words, so you recognise them on GitHub itself. When a word has a dotted line under it, hover over it or click it for a short explanation. Under Settings → General → Explaining GitHub terms you choose how much explanation you see: with Beginner there is always a short line of explanation under buttons and tabs, with Advanced only the term itself.
Coodoo made up two words itself: Promote and Back-merge. They are marked Coodoo word, and they say what Coodoo does on GitHub for them.
A saved step in your code's history, with a short description of what changed. You can always look back at what was in a commit, and go back to it if needed.
Compare it to: a save point in a game.
Sending your commits from this computer to GitHub. Only then are they online too, where others (and the autopilot on another computer) can see them.
Compare it to: uploading the photos on your phone to the cloud.
Bringing the latest work from GitHub to this computer. Do this before you carry on, so you don't build on an old version.
Compare it to: refreshing a shared document to see the latest version.
Putting the work from one branch into another branch, so they are one whole again. When two changes clash, you get a conflict.
Compare it to: combining two versions of a recipe into one recipe with all the improvements.
A separate version of your code, so work in progress doesn't touch your main version. When the work is done, you merge the branch back.
Compare it to: a copy of a document where you can try things freely while the original stays intact.
A request on GitHub to merge the work from one branch into another branch. That way the work can be looked at and checked first, for example by checks.
Compare it to: a proposal you hand in for approval before it goes ahead.
A project on GitHub, with all its code and its whole history. Often shortened to repo.
Compare it to: a project folder that also keeps every earlier version.
Your own copy of someone else's repository, under your own GitHub account. You can work in it freely without touching the original.
Compare it to: copying a recipe from a cookbook into your own notebook so you can change it.
A fixed label on one commit, usually a version number like v1.2.0. A tag doesn't move.
Compare it to: a bookmark with a name on it in a book.
A published version of your app on GitHub, with a tag, a description and optionally files to download. See also Release.
Compare it to: a new edition of a book that goes on sale.
A free GitHub service that puts a website online straight from your repository.
Compare it to: a shop window: what you set out in the repository is there for everyone to see.
Changes in your files that have not been saved in a commit yet. They are only on this computer.
Compare it to: progress in a game since your last save point: not kept yet.
How many commits a branch is behind or ahead of another branch or GitHub. When you are behind, you pull; when you are ahead, you push.
Compare it to: two people reading the same book: one is a few chapters further than the other.
Two changes touch the same lines and git doesn't know which one to keep, so someone has to choose. Coodoo helps you with that.
Compare it to: two people each rewriting the same sentence in a document differently at the same time.
A branch that GitHub guards with rules, for example that work may only go in through a pull request, or only once the checks pass.
Compare it to: a safe you may only put things in with permission.
Automatic checks on GitHub, like tests and a build, that run for a commit or pull request. Green means everything went well.
Compare it to: a car inspection: only when everything passes may it go on the road.
Coodoo word. Moving the work on a branch one step further, to the next branch in your project's flow (for example from development to main).
On GitHub: Coodoo makes a pull request to the next branch and merges it.
Compare it to: a draft that becomes the official version once it is approved.
Coodoo word. Bringing work that is already on a later branch in the flow, but not yet on the branch before it, back to that earlier branch.
On GitHub: Coodoo makes a pull request from the later branch to the branch before it and merges it.
Compare it to: a correction made straight in the printed version that you then copy into the draft as well.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Agent | An AI that does work on its own. In Coodoo: Claude Code and Codex |
| API | A way for programs to talk to each other |
| Autopilot | The part of Coodoo that works through the goals on its own |
| Build | Turning your code into a working program |
| Changelog | A list of what changed in each version (CHANGELOG.md) |
| CLI | A program you use from the command line, like Claude Code and Codex |
| Compacting | An agent summarizes its conversation when its memory gets full |
| Context window | How much text an agent can take in at once |
| Dependabot | A GitHub service that tells you when parts of your project have known security holes |
.env |
A file with your app's secret settings, like passwords and keys. Never belongs in git |
| Failsafe | A fixed safety rule that Coodoo always enforces |
| Flow | The fixed order of branches that work goes through to your live version, for example development → main |
| git | The system that keeps track of your code's history |
| GitHub | The website where your code lives online |
| Goal | Something you want built; it gets split into tasks |
| Issue | A report or request on GitHub; it can become a goal |
| MCP | A standard for giving an agent extra tools |
| Plugin | A package of extra skills for an agent |
| Project map | A map of your code, for you and the agents |
| Project vault | Encrypted storage for keys that Coodoo needs |
| Queue | The goals still to be done, in order |
| Review | Another agent checking the work |
| Semgrep | A scanner that searches code for known bad patterns |
| Task | One step from a goal's plan |
| Team memory | The team's notes in the .coodoo/ folder |
| Token | (1) A piece of text that AI calculates in: usage is measured in tokens. (2) A key that gives access to something, like your GitHub token |
| Vault | See Project vault |
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