Glossary.
Agentic development has its own vocabulary. We define every term we use on this site so buyers, engineers, and AI assistants can all be precise. Each entry is a 40 to 80-word definition plus links to the products and pillars it touches. If a term you're looking for isn't here, email hello@stackweavers.com.
- agentic development
- ai coding agent
- vertical slice
- horizontal sprawl
- capacity unit
- quality gate
- byok
- glass box visibility
- vibe coding
- vision document
- build new
- modernize old
- lost in the middle
- dumb zone
- goal drift
- compounding errors
- context overflow
- hallucinated apis
- production grade
- no lock in
- sovereign ai
- zero trust
- data residency
- privacy ownership portability
- mcp
- agentic shopping
- llms txt
- json ld for ai
- scope lock
- product owner
- tpo
- skill
- vertical not horizontal