Entire.io
Ranked 10 of 22 Git forges by recommenders
Developers building with AI agents like it for saving agent sessions with git commits, though critics doubt it is more than git tooling.
Developers building with AI agents like it for saving agent sessions with git commits, though critics doubt it is more than git tooling.
54 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 30
- criticize it
- 24
- approval share
- 56%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 30 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fits into existing agent workflows
“the (interesting!) CLI that shipped today is very much for developers who are busy building with agents”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents” “hooks into the existing workflow for those developers, in Claude Code and in Gemini CLI”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents” “It might also be a tool which you could compose into your workflow”
Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Context Harness – Local first context engine for AI tools” Drop-in GitHub replacement that just works
“basically creating a fast drop-in replacement for GitHub that just works for me”
Comment from 26 Oct 2026 in “The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration” “no email or password . just read the skill.md and your agents can do the full git lifecycle in under a minute”
Comment from 18 Jun 2026 in “Git platform built for agentic era” Open source CLI works with git
“The CLI is open source, everyone can use it and it does work with git only.”
Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents” “I use the Entire.io CLI and I find it useful.”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative” Users recommend it enthusiastically
“I've been using entire for the last month and can't recommend it enough”
Comment from 26 Oct 2026 in “The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration” “there's no going back! It's amazing!”
Comment from 26 Oct 2026 in “The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Better as git tooling than platform
“I'm skeptical of building this as a separate platform rather than as tooling on top of git.”
Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents” “This feels like a feature that should be added to GitHub.”
Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents” “The whole company is a post-commit hook with a marketing team.”
Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents” Unclear value and high valuation
“an AI dev tool that basically hooks onto Git/Claude Code/terminal session history is worth multiples of $60+ million dollars”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents” “Sure... you `git add` and context text generated by AI and `git commit` it, could be useful. Does that worth 60 million?”
Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents” “a dev tool that's seemingly failing to resonate with developers as to why they would pay for this”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents” - Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”
Duplicates what developers already do
“all I gathered is that it dumps the context into the commit. I already do this.”
Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents” “It's trivial to do this and there are so many ways people do things”
Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents” Breaks commit messages or plugins
“It mucked up my commit messages by replacing the first line with a sort of AI request title or similar.”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents” “It doesn't seem to work if you use Claude plugins like feature-dev and commit-push-pr.”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”
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See all 22 Git forges, rankedWhat people said
40 of the 59 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“basically creating a fast drop-in replacement for GitHub that just works for me”
“there's no going back! It's amazing!”
“I've been using entire for the last month and can't recommend it enough”
“Everything stays with you right beside your code!”
“you may as well follow the path of Entire; former GitHub CEO's company, and record the entire agent session to get the full context”
“we search over 450M code blocks in p95 60ms”
“Entire.io is trying to build some useful building blocks”
“I use the Entire.io CLI and I find it useful.”
“I clicked on one repo with random letters in the title and it was empty.”
“Looks useful for decentralization”
“no email or password . just read the skill.md and your agents can do the full git lifecycle in under a minute”
“still not sure how i feel about it”
“Their response seems reasonable.”
“Really an interesting proposition”
“It might also be a tool which you could compose into your workflow”
“their architecture (capturing prompts alongside commits) fundamentally misses the point”
“that Entire business model is all about monetizing something that doesn't need it”
“It doesn't seem to work if you use Claude plugins like feature-dev and commit-push-pr.”
“It mucked up my commit messages by replacing the first line with a sort of AI request title or similar.”
“For a solo developer this is pretty useless.”
“I love the vision and think this will matter a lot in the AI age.”
“Nobody cares if it makes sense, it just has to appear futuristic and avant-garde.”
“I'm uncharacteristically optimistic on this one, I'd give it a try!”
“a dev tool that's seemingly failing to resonate with developers as to why they would pay for this”
“which is a great one, mind you”
“hooks into the existing workflow for those developers, in Claude Code and in Gemini CLI”
“an AI dev tool that basically hooks onto Git/Claude Code/terminal session history is worth multiples of $60+ million dollars”
“the (interesting!) CLI that shipped today is very much for developers who are busy building with agents”
“this platform feels like it addresses this in a novel and traditional way”
“Sure... you `git add` and context text generated by AI and `git commit` it, could be useful. Does that worth 60 million?”
“I see the utility in this as an extension to git / source control.”
“I think this platform can be useful but I doubt it can be something as big as the think it will be.”
“The whole company is a post-commit hook with a marketing team.”
“it doesn't give us a glimpse into whatever we're supposed to by hyped about”
“all I gathered is that it dumps the context into the commit. I already do this.”
“It's trivial to do this and there are so many ways people do things”
“This feels like a feature that should be added to GitHub.”
“The CLI is open source, everyone can use it and it does work with git only.”
“I'm skeptical of building this as a separate platform rather than as tooling on top of git.”
“I think they are lighter compared to an MCP.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.