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