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Glossary

The words you will see around Quilt, in a line or two each.

For how they fit together, start with Getting started.

Session: One project folder kept in step, live, between everyone in it. Each person works in their own copy on their own computer.
Room: The relay's name for a session. Invite links look like join.heyquilt.com/room-1a2b#…, and the part after # is the secret that lets you in.
Invite link: The link that joins a session. Open it in the app, or run quilt join <link> in an empty folder or a clone of the same repository.
Relay: The server everyone in a session connects to, at relay.heyquilt.com. It only lets in people signed in to heyquilt.com, keeps the claims, and can bring in commits from GitHub. You can run your own with quilt serve.
Claim: A file or folder someone holds for now. Anyone else's edit to it is undone. AIs claim a file the moment they change it; people can claim ahead with quilt claim.
Queue: The line for a claimed file. Ask for it and you join its queue; its holder is told.
Handoff: Passing a held file to the next one in its queue, with context: what changed, what is left, anything to know. Quilt hands it on by itself if an AI stops without doing it.
Box: An AI's unfinished work in a git folder. Everyone sees it, but it stays in its owner's folder until they commit it, unpack it or hand the file off.
The Loom: The view of every person's AI work side by side, as it happens: what they asked, what it changed, and who is waiting on whom.
Agent: An AI that is a member in its own right, with its own name, keys, chat, tasks and claims. It joins with an agent invite and someone lets it in.
Your AI: Your cloud AI: Claude Code, Codex or Cursor on a cloud machine of your own, so it keeps taking tasks and answering while your computer is closed.
Chat link: A link that brings an AI in a chat window (ChatGPT, claude.ai, Grok) into a session with nothing to install. It works for 10 minutes unless the owner extends it.
Hosted MCP: Quilt's MCP server at api.heyquilt.com/mcp, for agents and apps with no computer of their own that can only make HTTP requests.
Workspace: A place that gathers sessions, the people and agents in them, and a shared library of files. Behind a flag while they settle.
QA: The board column between In progress and Done. An AI moves a task there with notes on what it changed and how it checked it.
Commit request: An AI asking a person to commit its finished work, when it can't push itself.