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-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 Web Services
The former AWS command-line coding agent. AWS documentation now says Amazon Q Developer CLI has been rebranded to Kiro CLI, so this entry is retained for lineage and migration context.
Google's current terminal agent path for individual Gemini coding workflows after the June 18, 2026 Gemini CLI transition, with migration support from Gemini CLI extensions and agent workflows.
Augment Code
Augment Code's terminal agent for interactive and automated workflows, with codebase indexing, edits, PR/build feedback, MCP server mode, ACP integration, and script-friendly output.
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.
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.
Browser Use
Browser Use's open-source, self-healing CDP harness that connects a coding agent directly to the user's real running Chrome, with coordinate clicks that pass through iframes, shadow DOM, and cross-origin boundaries at the compositor level.
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 (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.
Cline
Cline's CLI and SDK surface for bringing its IDE-origin agent into terminal and headless workflows, including MCP, plugins, hooks, skills, rules, connectors, and NDJSON output.
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.
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.
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.
Cursor
Cursor's terminal agent surface for interactive and headless coding workflows, scripts and automation, MCP integration, shell mode, and cloud handoff from the command line.
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.
Cognition AI
Cognition's local terminal agent for Devin workflows, with file mentions, image paste, shell command execution, `devin -p` script mode, MCP, skills, hooks, AGENTS.md, and cloud handoff.
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.
Factory
Factory's Droid terminal interface for interactive REPL sessions, `droid exec` headless tasks, session resume/fork, daemon workflows, MCP, skills, hooks, custom droids, and enterprise SDLC automation.
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.
Google's open-source Gemini terminal agent. Retained for open-source and migration context because Google moved free, Pro, and Ultra individual usage to Antigravity CLI on June 18, 2026.
GitHub (Microsoft)
GitHub's terminal-native Copilot coding agent for local sessions, custom agents, sandboxed workflows, and GitHub-native issue and pull request work.
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.
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.
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
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.
xAI
xAI's agentic coding CLI that drops the Grok models into the terminal with plan mode, parallel subagents, native MCP, and a headless CI mode, plus a one-line Windows PowerShell installer.
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.
AWS / Kiro
The Kiro terminal agent for writing, reviewing, modifying code, and automating workflows from the command line; AWS positions it as the successor to Amazon Q Developer CLI.
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI's open-source terminal coding agent with local file edits, shell commands, MCP configuration, skills/plugins, subagents, lifecycle hooks, ACP editor integration, `kimi -p` prompt mode, and Agent SDK automation.
Letta AI
Letta's open-source local coding-agent harness with persistent agent state, headless text/json/stream-json modes, MCP, hooks, skills, subagents, and trusted local mods.
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.
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 AI
Mistral AI's open-source Vibe Code CLI with interactive and non-interactive `vibe --prompt` workflows, JSON/streaming output, MCP, skills, custom agents, hooks, ACP, VS Code, and web surfaces.
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.
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.
All Hands AI
Open-source autonomous engineering platform with real `openhands` CLI, headless CI/scripting mode, MCP support, and web/TUI/server/ACP surfaces for sandboxed issue-to-PR work.
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 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 AI
Open-source CLI-first context graph and agent harness layer that provisions local storage, daemon, graph explorer, and integrations with coding harnesses like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.