Developer tools Agents

Devin is an AI software engineer built by Cognition and announced on 12 March 2024. It plans and carries out engineering tasks using a shell, a code editor and a browser inside a sandboxed environment.

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool. It was announced on 24 February 2025 as a research preview that works in the terminal, and it now runs in many places, from the terminal and IDEs to the web and Slack.

Codex is OpenAI's software-engineering agent. It started in 2025 as an open-source terminal tool and a cloud agent inside ChatGPT, and later grew into a desktop app with millions of weekly users.

An AI coding collaborator covering public use cases such as completion, explanation, and software-development workflows.

OpenHands is an open-source platform for AI software-development agents that write code, use a command line and browse the web, released under the MIT license and described in a paper accepted at ICLR 2025.

Replit Agent is an AI system from Replit that builds and deploys applications from a short natural-language description. It opened in early access to Replit Core subscribers in September 2024, and the company asked users to treat it as alpha software.

TRAE is ByteDance's AI coding product, launched in January 2025 with an IDE, a plugin and the SOLO agent. Its SOLO agent was renamed TRAE Work in June 2026.[^1][^9]

Google Antigravity is a free, agent-first software development platform released by Google on 18 November 2025 for macOS, Windows and Linux, which runs Gemini models alongside rival models and later expanded into a CLI, SDK and managed API agent.

Jules is Google's asynchronous AI coding agent: it takes a task such as a GitHub issue, works in a secure cloud virtual machine, and returns a diff for review. It was previewed in December 2024 and reached general availability in August 2025.

Gemini CLI is an open-source AI agent released by Google on 25 June 2025 that brings Gemini models into the terminal, with a free personal-account tier and support for the Model Context Protocol.

Mistral Vibe is Mistral AI's open-source command-line coding agent, announced in December 2025 with Devstral 2; it later grew into a broader agent product with cloud sandbox sessions, a VS Code extension and monthly plans.

WorkBuddy is Tencent's desktop AI agent for workplace tasks. Launched in March 2026, it was later offered to global users with remote task access and standard tool connections.

Amp is a coding agent and development environment created by an independent agent research lab, marketed for frontier work and used by everyone from indie developers to very large engineering organizations.