The toolbox

Anthropic's terminal-based coding agent that reads, edits and runs code across a repository from natural-language instructions.

Best for: Agentic coding in the terminal

OpenAI's software engineering agent that works on tasks in a sandboxed environment via CLI, IDE or the cloud.

Best for: Delegating tasks to a cloud agent

Google's open-source command-line agent that brings Gemini models into the terminal for coding and file tasks.

Best for: Free terminal agent with Gemini

Open-source VS Code extension that runs an autonomous coding agent able to edit files, run commands and use the browser.

Best for: Bring-your-own-key agent in VS Code

Open-source VS Code agent with configurable modes for architecture, coding, debugging and custom workflows.

Best for: Customisable agent modes

Command-line pair programmer that edits code in a local Git repository and commits its changes automatically.

Best for: Git-native CLI pair programming

Open-source platform for software development agents that write code, run commands and browse the web in a sandbox.

Best for: Self-hosted autonomous dev agents

Cognition's autonomous software engineer that picks up tickets, opens pull requests and reports back asynchronously.

Best for: Async ticket-to-PR workflows

Google's asynchronous coding agent that clones a repository into a cloud VM, makes changes and proposes a pull request.

Best for: Background tasks on GitHub repos

Sourcegraph's agentic coding tool available in the terminal and as an editor extension, with team sharing built in.

Best for: Team-shared agent threads

AWS coding assistant and agent for the IDE and CLI, with support for code transformation and AWS-aware tasks.

Best for: AWS-heavy codebases

Prompt-driven app builder that generates and deploys full-stack web applications from a chat interface.

Best for: Going from prompt to live app

In-browser AI builder from StackBlitz that scaffolds, runs and deploys full-stack apps without local setup.

Best for: Browser-based full-stack prototyping

Cloud development platform whose agent builds, runs and hosts applications directly in the browser.

Best for: Building and hosting in one place

Open standard for connecting AI agents to external tools, APIs and data sources through a common server interface.

Best for: Wiring tools into any agent

AI-first code editor built on VS Code, with inline editing, codebase-aware chat and an agent mode.

Best for: Day-to-day AI-assisted editing

AI editor with an agentic workflow that tracks your actions across files and applies multi-step changes.

Best for: Flow-based multi-file edits

GitHub's assistant offering inline completions, chat and a coding agent across major editors and GitHub itself.

Best for: Completions across many editors

Microsoft's open-source editor, the base for most AI coding extensions and forks.

Best for: The default extensible editor

High-performance collaborative editor written in Rust, with a built-in agent panel and multi-model support.

Best for: Speed-focused editing with agents

AWS agentic IDE that turns prompts into specifications, tasks and code with hooks for repeatable workflows.

Best for: Spec-driven development

Open-source assistant for VS Code and JetBrains that lets you configure your own models, rules and context providers.

Best for: Fully configurable assistant

Code completion and chat assistant with self-hosted and privacy-focused deployment options for teams.

Best for: Privacy-conscious teams

AI features integrated across JetBrains IDEs, including chat, code generation and refactoring support.

Best for: IntelliJ and PyCharm users

Anthropic's assistant and model family, widely used for coding, long-context reasoning and agentic workflows.

Best for: Coding and long-context work

Anthropic's API and console for building applications on Claude models, with SDKs for major languages.

Best for: Building apps on Claude

OpenAI's assistant for general reasoning, drafting and code, available on the web and desktop.

Best for: General-purpose assistance

OpenAI's API platform for text, image, audio and embedding models, with SDKs and an agents toolkit.

Best for: Building on GPT models

Google's browser workspace for prototyping with Gemini models and generating API keys and starter code.

Best for: Prototyping with Gemini

European model provider offering open-weight and commercial models plus an API and the Le Chat assistant.

Best for: European open-weight models

Model provider known for open-weight reasoning and coding models offered through an API and chat interface.

Best for: Low-cost reasoning models

Meta's family of open-weight language models that can be downloaded and run on your own infrastructure.

Best for: Self-hosted open-weight models

Tool for downloading and running open-weight models locally, exposing them through a local API.

Best for: Running models on your machine

Single API endpoint that routes requests across many model providers with unified billing and fallbacks.

Best for: Switching models without rewrites

Inference provider running open models on custom hardware for high token throughput and low latency.

Best for: Very fast inference

Hub for open models, datasets and demo spaces, plus libraries and hosted inference endpoints.

Best for: Finding open models and datasets

Vercel's generative interface tool that turns prompts into React components and deployable front ends.

Best for: Prompt to React components

Collection of copy-and-paste React components built on Radix and Tailwind that you own and edit directly.

Best for: Components AI agents edit well

Utility-first CSS framework that styles interfaces through class names rather than separate stylesheets.

Best for: Styling without context switching

Unstyled, accessible React primitives for dialogs, menus, tooltips and other common interface patterns.

Best for: Accessible headless primitives

Animation library for React and JavaScript, formerly known as Framer Motion, for transitions and gestures.

Best for: Declarative web animation

Open-source icon library with packages for React, Vue, Svelte and plain SVG usage.

Best for: Consistent open-source icons

Library of animated React and Tailwind components designed to drop into shadcn/ui projects.

Best for: Animated landing page sections

Open-source backend platform providing Postgres, authentication, storage, edge functions and realtime APIs.

Best for: Postgres backend in minutes

Google's app platform with a document database, authentication, storage, functions and hosting.

Best for: Realtime apps on Google Cloud

Serverless Postgres with database branching, so each preview environment can have its own copy of the data.

Best for: Branchable serverless Postgres

Reactive backend platform where database queries, functions and realtime updates are written in TypeScript.

Best for: TypeScript-first reactive backend

TypeScript ORM with a SQL-like query builder and schema migrations for Postgres, MySQL and SQLite.

Best for: Type-safe SQL in TypeScript

TypeScript ORM with a declarative schema, generated client and migration tooling for relational databases.

Best for: Schema-first database access

Authentication and user management service with drop-in components for React, Next.js and other frameworks.

Best for: Drop-in auth for React apps

Payments platform with APIs and hosted checkout for subscriptions, one-off payments and billing.

Best for: Adding payments and billing

Hosting platform for front-end frameworks with Git-based deploys, preview URLs and edge functions.

Best for: Deploying Next.js and front ends

Platform for deploying web projects from Git, with build pipelines, serverless functions and previews.

Best for: Static sites and JAMstack apps

Serverless platform running code at the network edge, with storage, queues and static site hosting.

Best for: Edge functions and low latency

Infrastructure platform that deploys applications, databases and background services from a repository.

Best for: Deploying backends and databases

CI/CD service built into GitHub for running builds, tests and deployments on repository events.

Best for: CI pipelines next to your code

Container tooling for packaging applications with their dependencies so they run the same everywhere.

Best for: Reproducible environments

Browser automation and end-to-end testing framework from Microsoft, with a codegen recorder and trace viewer.

Best for: End-to-end browser tests

Fast unit test runner for Vite projects, compatible with much of the Jest API and TypeScript out of the box.

Best for: Unit tests in Vite projects

AI code review tool that comments on pull requests with line-level suggestions and change summaries.

Best for: Automated pull request review

AI code review service that indexes a whole codebase to flag bugs and inconsistencies in pull requests.

Best for: Codebase-aware review

Error monitoring and performance tracing platform with stack traces, session replay and release tracking.

Best for: Catching production errors

Workshop for building and testing UI components in isolation, with visual and interaction testing add-ons.

Best for: Isolating and testing components

Collaborative interface design tool with prototyping, design systems and developer handoff features.

Best for: Interface design and handoff

Open-source design and prototyping platform that stores files in open web standards and can be self-hosted.

Best for: Self-hosted design work

Virtual whiteboard for hand-drawn style diagrams, useful for sketching architecture before building it.

Best for: Quick architecture sketches

Infinite canvas whiteboard and embeddable SDK for building drawing and diagramming features into apps.

Best for: Embeddable canvas experiences

Image generation service used for concept art, illustrations and marketing visuals.

Best for: Generating illustrative imagery

Library of freely usable photographs, with an API for pulling images into applications and prototypes.

Best for: Free photography for prototypes

Framework for building LLM applications, with abstractions for chains, retrieval, agents and integrations.

Best for: Composing LLM pipelines

Data framework for connecting private documents and databases to language models for retrieval and agents.

Best for: Retrieval over your own data

Managed vector database for similarity search over embeddings, with hybrid search and metadata filtering.

Best for: Managed vector search

Open-source vector database written in Rust, available self-hosted or as a managed cloud service.

Best for: Self-hosted vector search

API that crawls websites and returns clean markdown or structured data suitable for LLM input.

Best for: Turning web pages into context

Open-source observability platform for LLM applications, covering tracing, evaluation and prompt management.

Best for: Tracing and evaluating LLM apps

Modern terminal with AI command suggestions, an agent mode and shareable command blocks.

Best for: A terminal with AI built in

Issue tracking and project planning tool for software teams, with a fast interface and API.

Best for: Tracking work on small teams

Keyboard-driven launcher for macOS with extensions, snippets and built-in AI commands.

Best for: Launching tools without the mouse

Answer engine that searches the web and responds with cited sources, useful for technical research.

Best for: Research with citations

Code review platform built around stacked pull requests, with merge queues and AI review feedback.

Best for: Stacked pull request workflows