Entire

Status update (June 11, 2026): Entire is out of stealth. On February 10, 2026 — the day this profile was originally written — former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced the company with a $60M seed round and shipped its first open-source product, the Checkpoints CLI.^[1] The profile below reflects the post-launch reality.

What It Is

Entire is building a developer platform "where agents and humans collaborate, learn and ship together."^[2] The founder is Thomas Dohmke, who ran GitHub from 2021 until his 2025 departure, and the team of roughly 15 draws from GitHub and Atlassian, with plans to grow past 30 engineers.^[1]

The first shipped product, Checkpoints, is a CLI that hooks into your git workflow and automatically captures AI agent sessions — prompts, reasoning, transcripts — indexing them alongside commits. The tagline: "Every commit tells a story. Now you can read it."^[2]

Key properties:

• Agent-agnostic — launched with Claude Code and Gemini CLI support; the site now also lists Cursor and GitHub Copilot CLI, with more agents planned^[2]
• Local-first — checkpoint data lives in git history, not on Entire's servers^[2]
• Open source — MIT licensed, free to use^[3]

Funding

$60 million seed at a $300 million valuation, announced February 10, 2026. Led by Felicis, with Madrona, M12, Basis Set, 20VC, Cherry Ventures, Picus Capital, and Global Founders Capital. Angels include Gergely Orosz, Theo Browne, Jerry Yang, Olivier Pomel, and Garry Tan.^[1] That's one of the largest seed rounds in developer tooling — a bet on the founder as much as the product.

Pricing

The Checkpoints CLI is free and open source.^[2] No commercial pricing exists as of June 2026 — the business model presumably arrives with the platform launch later in 2026.

Traction

As of June 11, 2026, the entireio/cli repository has ~4,500 stars and 344 forks, with commits pushed the same day — an actively developed project four months after launch.^[3] The 159 open issues suggest real usage generating real feedback. The launch hit #1-tier attention on Hacker News (611 points, 577 comments).^[4]

Roadmap

The CLI is explicitly a wedge. Dohmke describes three platform components in development: a git-compatible database, a semantic reasoning layer for multi-agent coordination, and an AI-native user interface — with the full platform launch planned for later in 2026.^[1][5]

Cautions

• The shipped product is modest relative to the framing. A session-recording CLI is useful, but "the world's next developer platform" is a claim about unshipped components. The gap between the $300M valuation and a free CLI is bridged entirely by roadmap.
• Launch reception was mixed on substance. The HN thread drew heavy skepticism about whether checkpoint data is something developers actually want — one of the most direct critiques: "I see zero reason for a person to care about the checkpoints."^[4]
• Platform risk for adopters. Until the database/reasoning-layer/UI ships, committing to Entire's checkpoint format is a bet that the company's git-extension primitives become a standard rather than an orphaned metadata layer.
• Crowded convergence path. If the platform's multi-agent coordination layer materializes, Entire collides with GitHub (Copilot + Agent HQ), agent orchestration startups, and the agent CLI vendors themselves.

What Developers Say

From the launch-day Hacker News thread:^[4]

"I am struggling to see what the details are other than high-level concepts. Perhaps a demo would be useful!" — sp4cec0wb0y

"Highly dubious of this. I see zero reason for a person to care about the checkpoints." — rognjen

"This feels a bit like when some Hubbers broke off to work on PlanetScale, except without the massively successful, proven-to-be-scalable open source tool." — searls

"The (interesting!) CLI that shipped today is very much for developers who are busy building with agents." — davepeck

Dohmke (ashtom) engaged directly in the thread, committing that Entire will be "building in the open and full stack open source."^[4]

Competitive Context

GitHub — The obvious shadow. Dohmke is building "beyond repositories" against the company he ran. GitHub owns the repo, the PR, and Copilot; Entire is betting the agent-era artifact is the session, not just the diff.

Agent CLI vendors (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor) — Today they're integration partners. But session history and context persistence are features each vendor wants natively, which makes Entire's neutrality both its pitch and its exposure.

Tembo / agent orchestration platforms — Little overlap with the shipped CLI. The roadmap's "semantic reasoning layer for multi-agent coordination" is where convergence could happen later in 2026.

git-notes DIY — Within a day of launch, a Show HN ("Claudit") replicated the core idea with git notes. The capture mechanism is commoditizable; Entire's defensibility has to come from the platform layer.

Bottom Line

The February version of this profile filed Entire under "interesting signals, insufficient data." The data arrived: a former GitHub CEO, a $60M seed at $300M, a genuinely open-source agent-agnostic CLI with ~4,500 stars and daily commits as of June 2026.^[3]

What hasn't arrived is the platform. Checkpoints is a clever wedge — capturing agent context in git is the right primitive for an industry losing the "why" behind machine-written code — but the valuation prices in the git-compatible database, reasoning layer, and AI-native UI promised for later this year. Watch the platform launch: if Entire ships a credible agent-native layer above git, it's the most serious "beyond repositories" challenger yet. If not, it's a well-funded session recorder.

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Research by Ry Walker Research • methodology

Disclosure: Author is CEO of Tembo, which may compete depending on Entire's platform direction.