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Glossary

  • Iteration. A unit of work in Itera. One change to one product.
  • Project. An Itera workspace mapped to one product, with a frontend repo and any number of reference repos.
  • Phase. One of five stages an iteration moves through: Product, Engineering, Planning, Building, Built.
  • Specification. A structured before and after describing one piece of the change.
  • Prototype. An interactive, runnable version of the product with proposed changes applied. Optional, but recommended for any UI-significant change.
  • Implementation plan. A graph of PRs that together deliver the iteration.
  • Coding agent. The AI coding tool selected from the Move to agent flow, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Copilot.
  • Itera skill (execute-planned-pr). A skill installed in your coding agent that lets it claim PRs and sync status with Itera.
  • Component inspector. An optional library installed in your frontend app that powers Select during prototyping. See docs.iteradev.ai/inspector.
  • itera.yml. The required config file in your frontend repo that tells Itera how to run your dev server. See docs.iteradev.ai/platform.
  • Owner. The single person currently driving an iteration forward.
  • Reference repository. A repo Itera reads for context but doesn't prototype against.

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