Ex-GitHub CEO launches a GitHub rival that reinvents the pull request
The New Stack Frederic Lardinois ● Covered by 2 sources
Ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke just launched Entire, a GitHub rival built around agentic code review. Its pitch: let AI handle more of the review work, not just the coding.
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Thomas Dohmke’s new startup, Entire, has finally stopped teasing and started acting like a full GitHub competitor. On Monday, it launched a GitHub alternative built around Trails, a new code review system that replaces the familiar pull request flow. The company had been rolling out pieces of the platform since February, when it announced a $60 million seed round.
The big idea is simple enough: if coding agents are writing more of the code, then the real bottleneck is review. Entire is betting that the answer is not just to add an AI reviewer to an old workflow, the way GitHub does with Copilot, but to rebuild the workflow itself. Trails gives developers a dashboard with agent-scored evals that can judge things like risk or intent drift, and those checks run on every push. The results show up in the web app and in an open-source CLI.
That changes what gets reviewed. Instead of only looking at the final diff, Entire says the original request, the agent’s session history, and the resulting code all become part of the process. If the evals look good, Dohmke says it should be possible to merge without a deep human review. Developers can use preset review agents or define their own in JSON, and the system supports Claude and OpenAI models.
Trails sits on top of a broader platform that also includes Entire’s Git-compatible server and its continuous memory feature for agents. The company says its distributed source control can push up to 89x faster than GitHub and 6x faster than Cursor’s Origin. It also supports private repositories in specific regions, including the U.S., Europe, India, and Australia, with public repositories and self-hosted Git nodes still on the roadmap.
There’s a practical side here, too. Entire is partnering with Buildkite and Depot for CI, and it says users can convert existing GitHub Actions workflows through those tools before connecting a repo. The platform is free, but the review agents burn tokens, and users get a $100 starter credit for now before paying market rates for the model they pick. Dohmke clearly thinks the next fight isn’t about where code lives. It’s about who pays for the machines that review it.
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This is the kind of move that makes GitHub look a little too comfortable. Rebuilding the pull request around agents is either the obvious next step or a very expensive way to discover that humans still want a say. Either way, the real product here is not code review — it’s control over the whole workflow, which is exactly where the money and the lock-in live.
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