Glossary

Host — The local process (the LinkCode daemon) that runs your coding agents on your machine and serves every client connected to it. It ships inside the desktop app and starts with 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, reasoning effort, and approval policy.

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

Account (provider) — A credential you add once under Settings → Providers — a subscription, API key, gateway, or custom endpoint — and connect to the agents that should use it. See settings.

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. 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, ultra, or ultracode, depending on the agent and model.

Subagent — An agent an agent spawned. Its work appears as its own entry in the transcript, with a full transcript of its own.

Compaction — Summarizing a long thread so it fits back into the agent's context. LinkCode marks it in the transcript instead of silently dropping the earlier conversation.

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.

Resources — A thread's working set: the sources you attached or the agent pulled in, and the outputs it produced. See panels.

Automations — Schedules and loops that run a prompt on an agent on a cadence, without you starting each thread by hand.

LinkCode Cloud — Your LinkCode account, plus the features that need one: reaching your hosts remotely and connecting a messaging platform. Nothing in LinkCode requires an account. See LinkCode Cloud.

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