Glossary

Host — The local process (the LinkCode daemon) that runs your coding agents on your machine and serves every client connected to it. See architecture.

Thread — A conversation with an agent, scoped to a workspace's working directory. A thread can be created, stopped, resumed, or imported. See threads.

Workspace — A folder registered with LinkCode that threads run against. There are two kinds: a project workspace you add yourself, and the built-in Chats workspace. See workspaces.

Chats — LinkCode's built-in workspace for threads that aren't tied to a project, backed by the ~/LinkCode folder on your machine.

Composer — The input box at the bottom of a thread where you type prompts and set the active agent's model and approval policy.

Agent — One of the coding agents LinkCode runs: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or Pi. See agents.

Approval policy — The setting that controls how much an agent can do on its own before it has to ask you. Each agent exposes its own set of levels. See approvals.

Permission request — An in-thread prompt asking you to allow or reject one specific action an agent wants to take, as it happens.

Reasoning effort — How much an agent reasons before acting: low, medium, high, xhigh, max, or (Claude Code only) ultracode. Only max restarts the agent process in place; every other level, including ultracode, switches live.

Services — Long-running processes declared in linkcode.json that LinkCode runs, health-checks, and gives a live preview URL. See preview.

Task — A one-shot script declared in linkcode.json that runs once and exits, as opposed to a persistent service.

linkcode.json — The per-workspace config file where you declare tasks and services. See the reference.

Import — Bringing an agent's own existing conversation history into LinkCode as a thread, rather than starting fresh.

LinkCode Cloud — Your LinkCode account plus, as they become available, hosted features like reaching your host remotely from a browser or phone. Desktop sign-in is in development; nothing in LinkCode requires an account today.

Artifact — Rendered content an agent produces inline in a thread, such as a diagram or a sandboxed HTML preview. See artifacts.