Coding Agents & CLIs

Anthropic's agentic CLI — reads a codebase, edits across files, and runs the tests.

Google's open-source terminal agent, with a generous free tier.

OpenAI's open-source coding agent for the terminal.

Model-agnostic pair programming in the terminal, with git-native commits.

Autonomous coding agent inside VS Code, with MCP support and human approval gates.

AI-native code editor built on VS Code — agent mode, inline edits, and MCP servers in the IDE.

Agentic IDE with Cascade — an agent that tracks what you did across the session, not just the current prompt.