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Agentic local cloud glossary

Precise terms help agents avoid unsafe assumptions. These definitions keep LocalCloud positioned as a local development, CI, and demo runtime with real-GCP validation before production.

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GCP emulator

A local implementation of a Google Cloud service API used for development and testing before code touches real Google Cloud.

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AI agent sandbox

A constrained environment where an AI coding agent can run commands, write code, and verify behavior without causing unwanted external side effects.

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MCP server

A Model Context Protocol server exposes tools, resources, or prompts that agent clients can call through a structured protocol instead of ad-hoc shell instructions.

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Agentic CI

A CI workflow where an AI agent helps create or maintain validation steps, while the actual job remains deterministic, reviewable, and bounded.

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Localhost cloud API

A cloud SDK endpoint override that sends service calls to a local process such as LocalCloud instead of a public cloud endpoint.

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Credentialless agent testing

Running an AI agent's generated code against local service endpoints without providing cloud credentials, service-account keys, or a billing project, so a mistake cannot create cloud resources or charges.

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Local cloud API surface

The set of cloud service endpoints, protocols, and operations a local runtime actually implements.

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