Glossary · term

Background coding agents

Asynchronous coding agents that run in sandboxes or on a copy of the repository: they execute tasks in parallel in the background, generate pull requests, and leave logs and test evidence for human review, rather than working interactively in the editor.

Products2025Wave 3 · 2025–26Maturity: 4/5

Maturity rationale

OpenAI Codex + GitHub + Cursor production category

References

Author: GitHub