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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%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 6 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: not recommended
  2. December 2025: not recommended
  3. January 2026: not recommended
  4. February 2026: recommended
  5. March 2026: recommended
  6. April 2026: not recommended
  7. May 2026: not recommended
  8. June 2026: recommended
  9. July 2026: not recommended
  10. August 2026: recommended
  11. September 2026: recommended
  12. October 2026: recommended
  13. 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”
  • 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”

Other Git forges people recommend

The four most recommended other Git forges, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.

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GitHub7642,35025%1211 yrs47 owners—
Forgejo3806785%121 yr26 ownersApproved
GitLab33134649%126 yrs41 owners—
Codeberg33127754%121 yr17 owners—
Entire.ioThis page302456%6——
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What 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”

RecommendsComment from 26 Oct 2026 in “The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration”

“there's no going back! It's amazing!”

RecommendsComment from 26 Oct 2026 in “The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration”

“I've been using entire for the last month and can't recommend it enough”

RecommendsComment from 26 Oct 2026 in “The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration”

“Everything stays with you right beside your code!”

RecommendsComment from 26 Oct 2026 in “The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration”

“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”

RecommendsComment from 26 Oct 2026 in “Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository”

“we search over 450M code blocks in p95 60ms”

RecommendsComment from 3 Sep 2026 in “Agentic semantic and code search at scale”

“Entire.io is trying to build some useful building blocks”

RecommendsComment from 25 Aug 2026 in “Stop sending me PRs; a rant”

“I use the Entire.io CLI and I find it useful.”

RecommendsComment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative”

“I clicked on one repo with random letters in the title and it was empty.”

CriticizesComment from 18 Jun 2026 in “Git platform built for agentic era”

“Looks useful for decentralization”

RecommendsComment from 18 Jun 2026 in “Git platform built for agentic era”

“no email or password . just read the skill.md and your agents can do the full git lifecycle in under a minute”

RecommendsComment from 18 Jun 2026 in “Git platform built for agentic era”

“still not sure how i feel about it”

MixedComment from 2 Mar 2026 in “If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?”

“Their response seems reasonable.”

RecommendsComment from 2 Mar 2026 in “If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?”

“Really an interesting proposition”

RecommendsComment from 2 Mar 2026 in “If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?”

“It might also be a tool which you could compose into your workflow”

RecommendsComment from 26 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Context Harness – Local first context engine for AI tools”

“their architecture (capturing prompts alongside commits) fundamentally misses the point”

CriticizesComment from 17 Feb 2026 in “Metadata Is Not Understanding: Knowledge Graph Version Control for AI Code”

“that Entire business model is all about monetizing something that doesn't need it”

CriticizesComment 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.”

CriticizesComment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“It mucked up my commit messages by replacing the first line with a sort of AI request title or similar.”

CriticizesComment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“For a solo developer this is pretty useless.”

MixedComment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“I love the vision and think this will matter a lot in the AI age.”

RecommendsComment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“Nobody cares if it makes sense, it just has to appear futuristic and avant-garde.”

CriticizesComment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“I'm uncharacteristically optimistic on this one, I'd give it a try!”

RecommendsComment from 11 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”

CriticizesComment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“which is a great one, mind you”

MixedComment 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”

RecommendsComment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“an AI dev tool that basically hooks onto Git/Claude Code/terminal session history is worth multiples of $60+ million dollars”

CriticizesComment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“the (interesting!) CLI that shipped today is very much for developers who are busy building with agents”

MixedComment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“this platform feels like it addresses this in a novel and traditional way”

RecommendsComment 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?”

CriticizesComment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“I see the utility in this as an extension to git / source control.”

MixedComment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“I think this platform can be useful but I doubt it can be something as big as the think it will be.”

MixedComment 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.”

CriticizesComment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“it doesn't give us a glimpse into whatever we're supposed to by hyped about”

CriticizesComment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“all I gathered is that it dumps the context into the commit. I already do this.”

CriticizesComment 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”

CriticizesComment 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.”

MixedComment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“The CLI is open source, everyone can use it and it does work with git only.”

RecommendsComment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“I'm skeptical of building this as a separate platform rather than as tooling on top of git.”

MixedComment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”

“I think they are lighter compared to an MCP.”

RecommendsComment from 9 Feb 2026 in “Slack CLI for Agents (OSS)”

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