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AI Coding Agents

A primary-source reference for AI coding agents. Every entry cites its official source - no summaries of summaries. Browse, filter, and compare the command-line coding agents developers actually use.

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Aider

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aider-chat

An open-source AI pair programming CLI that works in any terminal, makes git-committed edits across multiple files, and supports over 100 LLM providers.

Amazon Q Developer CLI

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Amazon Web Services

AWS's agentic coding CLI that integrates with the terminal, understands AWS services deeply, and can plan and execute multi-step coding tasks using the Amazon Q model.

Amp

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Sourcegraph

Sourcegraph's agentic coding tool that combines a terminal CLI and VS Code extension with deep codebase search, giving the model precise context retrieval across large repositories.

Bolt

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StackBlitz

StackBlitz's browser-based agentic development environment using WebContainers to generate, run, and deploy full-stack applications entirely in the browser with no local installation required.

Claude Code

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Anthropic

A terminal-based agentic coding tool that runs in the developer's own environment, giving Claude read/write access to the file system, shell, and browser to complete coding tasks end to end.

Codebuff

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Codebuff (YC)

A Y Combinator-backed multi-agent CLI coding tool with a free tier (Freebuff), using specialised agents for file picking, planning, editing, and reviewing to autonomously modify codebases.

CodeRabbit

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CodeRabbit

An automated code review agent that triggers on every pull request, generating plain-English walkthroughs, sequence diagrams, and line-level bug and security findings across GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket.

Codex CLI

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OpenAI

OpenAI's open-source agentic coding CLI that runs in the developer's terminal with sandboxed code execution, giving GPT and o-series models access to files and shell commands.

Crush

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Charmbracelet

A Go-based TUI terminal coding agent from the makers of Glow and Bubble Tea, with LSP integration, MCP server support, session management, and a --yolo mode for fully autonomous operation.

Devin

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Cognition AI

An autonomous AI software engineer that accepts a task, spins up its own sandboxed environment, and works end-to-end on coding tasks with minimal human checkpointing.

Factory

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Factory

An enterprise autonomous coding platform where specialised AI Droids handle the complete software development lifecycle — feature development, code review, incident response, migrations, and documentation — integrated with GitHub, Jira, Slack, and PagerDuty.

ForgeCode

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TailCallHQ

A terminal-based AI pair programmer with a three-agent architecture — implement, research, and plan — supporting 300+ models and offering interactive TUI, one-shot CLI, and shell plugin modes.

Gemini CLI

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Google

Google's open-source agentic coding CLI that runs Gemini models in the developer's terminal, with a 1M-token context window and MCP tool support.

GitHub Copilot CLI

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GitHub (Microsoft)

A GitHub Copilot feature that translates natural-language descriptions into shell commands, explains what a command does, and suggests corrections — a command-helper, not a coding agent.

GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

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GitHub (Microsoft)

GitHub's cloud-based autonomous coding agent that accepts an assigned GitHub issue, researches the repository, writes code on a branch, runs tests via GitHub Actions, and opens a draft pull request — with no developer involvement during execution.

Goose

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Block

Block's open-source agentic developer tool that runs locally, supports any LLM provider, and extends its capabilities through a rich MCP and custom-extension ecosystem.

gptme

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Open source (ErikBjare)

One of the earliest open-source terminal coding agents (Spring 2023), combining code execution, file editing, web browsing via Playwright, and shell access in a persistent conversation interface.

Greptile

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Greptile

An AI code review platform that indexes the entire codebase into a call-graph and deploys a swarm of parallel agents per pull request, catching cross-file dependency issues that diff-only reviewers miss.

Jules

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Google

Google's cloud-based autonomous coding agent that accepts a GitHub issue, creates a plan, executes it in an isolated Google Cloud VM powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, and opens a pull request — entirely without developer involvement.

Letta Code

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Letta AI

A memory-first terminal coding agent from the creators of MemGPT that accumulates knowledge about your codebase across sessions, ranked first among model-agnostic open-source agents on Terminal-Bench at launch.

Lovable

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Lovable

A browser-based AI full-stack app builder that generates, iterates on, and deploys React/TypeScript applications from natural-language prompts, with GitHub integration, Supabase backend, and an autonomous Agent Mode.

mini-SWE-agent

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Princeton NLP / Stanford

A radically minimal autonomous software engineering agent — approximately 100 lines of core Python — that scores above 74% on SWE-bench Verified using only bash commands in a sandboxed environment.

Mistral Vibe

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Mistral AI

Mistral AI's open-source terminal coding agent powered by Devstral 2, with file editing, shell execution, and a cloud execution mode that lets sessions run remotely when the local machine is off.

Open Interpreter

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Open Interpreter

An open-source terminal interface that lets language models run code locally, giving them access to your file system, browser, and any application on your computer.

OpenCode

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SST

An open-source terminal-based agentic coding tool from the SST team, designed for multi-provider LLM support and a keyboard-driven TUI workflow.

OpenHands

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All Hands AI

An open-source autonomous software agent (formerly OpenDevin) that executes multi-step engineering tasks inside a sandboxed Docker container, from issue to pull request.

PI

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Earendil Works

A minimalist open-source terminal coding agent that runs across 15+ LLM providers, with a TypeScript-based Skills system for extensibility and session branching for non-destructive exploration.

Plandex

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Plandex AI

An open-source terminal coding agent designed for large, multi-file development tasks with a cumulative diff sandbox that stages all AI-proposed changes for human review before applying them.

Potpie

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Potpie AI

An open-source agentic platform that converts a codebase into a knowledge graph and runs specialised agents — debugging, code generation, test planning, and code review — with full structural understanding of the repository.

Qwen Code

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Alibaba (QwenLM)

Alibaba's open-source agentic CLI coding tool, forked from Gemini CLI and optimised for Qwen3-Coder models, with full support for other major providers and VS Code and Zed integrations.

Replit Agent

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Replit

Replit's cloud-based AI development agent that autonomously builds, deploys, and maintains full-stack applications from natural-language descriptions, running in Replit's cloud IDE with 160+ service connectors.

Rovo Dev

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Atlassian

Atlassian's agentic coding platform deeply integrated with Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket — converting Jira issues into implementation specs, reviewing PRs against acceptance criteria, and operating via CLI, IDE, and browser with Atlassian's Teamwork Graph as context.

SWE-agent

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Princeton NLP / Stanford

A research-grade autonomous CLI agent from Princeton and Stanford that takes a GitHub issue URL and resolves it end-to-end using a custom Agent-Computer Interface optimised for software engineering.

Trae Agent

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ByteDance SE Lab

ByteDance Software Engineering Lab's open-source CLI coding agent that achieved 75.2% on SWE-bench Verified using a multi-model ensemble with Claude, Gemini, and o4-mini.

Warp

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Warp

An AI-native terminal emulator that went open source in May 2026, combining a high-performance Rust-based shell with built-in AI coding agents and the Oz cloud orchestration platform for running autonomous background agents.