Reference
Vocabulary
Same pattern, different names. This matrix records what each vendor calls the behavior — the raw material for tracking how the field's language converges (or doesn't). The animated term graph arrives with the vocabulary dataset; the glossary below is its seed.
Chart unlocks as the corpus grows — n = 0 mentions across 0 quarters.
| Pattern | Anthropic | Cognition (Devin) | Cursor | OpenAI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | CLAUDE.md / memory | — | — | memory |
| Approval | permission modes / plan approval | — | yolo mode (its absence) | approval modes |
| Interruption | Esc to interrupt | — | — | cancel / stop task |
| Recovery | rewind / checkpoints | — | — | revert |
| Delegation | subagents / Task tool | assign to Devin | — | delegate to Codex / tasks |
| Human Handoff | session summary / PR description | Devin's ticket update | — | task review |
| Generative UI | MCP Apps / artifacts | — | — | Apps SDK / canvas |
| Planning | Plan mode | Devin's plan | — | task planning / plan tool |
| Progress | streaming transcript / verbose mode | Devin's workspace | — | activity log |
| Agent Identity | Co-Authored-By trailer | — | — | agent attribution |