Glossary

Intent-based checkout

Intent-based checkout means you describe what you want to change in plain language and CatWrangler hands the agent exactly the right files, functions, and prior decisions — no grepping the whole repo to find where to work.

Where it shows up

It’s the first gate every change passes through: you say what you want to do, and the system resolves it to the exact files and functions, with the decisions attached. It’s why agents stop grepping the whole repo.

This definition is reused verbatim everywhere the term appears.