Editor's picks
20 tools we would open first. These are our own picks, not paid placements.
- All
- Editors
- CLI agents
- Cloud agents
- Code review
- App builders
- Local models
- Picks first
- A to Z
- By category
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A local, open-source app builder that runs on your machine, so the prompt-to-app loop does not have to leave your computer.
macOS, Windows, Linux
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Google's browser workspace, grown out of Project IDX, where Gemini can help you scaffold, edit and preview a full-stack or mobile app.
Web
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An open-source terminal pair-programmer that maps your repo, makes edits and commits each change, and can talk to hosted or local models.
macOS, Linux, Windows
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Sourcegraph's coding agent and environment, with local and remote 'orbs' so an agent can keep working after you close the laptop.
CLI, Web, Editors
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Anthropic's terminal agent for long-running, multi-file work: it plans, edits, runs commands and can use subagents and hooks in a repo.
macOS, Linux, Windows
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OpenAI's coding agent, available as a CLI and as a cloud workspace, for repository-scale tasks on top of OpenAI's models.
CLI, Web
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An open-source desktop and CLI agent, started at Block and now under the Agentic AI Foundation, that can edit, run commands and use MCP extensions with the model you bring.
macOS, Linux, Windows
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Cognition's cloud software engineer: you hand it a ticket and it works on its own machine, then comes back with a pull request and a walkthrough.
Web, Slack, GitHub
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An open-source software-engineer agent you can run yourself or use as a hosted service, for end-to-end repository tasks.
Self-hosted, Cloud
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An AI reviewer that comments on pull requests across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, with one-click fixes and a free path for public repositories.
GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps
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A pull-request reviewer that indexes the whole repository so a comment can point at a caller or dependency far from the diff.
GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
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An open-source VS Code agent with plan and act modes that can edit files, run terminal commands and use MCP tools, billed only through the model you bring.
VS Code
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An open-source extension for VS Code and JetBrains that lets you bring your own model, including local ones, for chat, edit and autocomplete.
VS Code, JetBrains
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An editor built around an agent that can edit several files, run commands and show you the diff, on top of a VS Code foundation.
macOS, Windows, Linux
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The editor formerly sold as Windsurf, now a Cognition IDE with a command centre for local and cloud agents, still compatible with VS Code extensions.
macOS, Windows, Linux
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GitHub's coding assistant, with inline completions and chat inside VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Visual Studio and GitHub itself.
VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Visual Studio
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Amazon's agentic IDE and CLI for spec-driven work, built as the successor to Amazon Q Developer, with hooks, steering files and custom subagents.
macOS, Windows, Linux
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A fast native editor with built-in AI completions and an agent panel, written in Rust and designed for low latency.
macOS, Windows, Linux
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A desktop app for downloading and running local models, with a chat UI and a local server that coding tools can point at.
macOS, Windows, Linux
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The most common way to run open models on a laptop, including several code models, from a single command-line tool and a local API.
macOS, Linux, Windows
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