Popular Agents

There are many coding agents out there. I try and POC most of them. Here is a list of the most common and useful coding agents. I recommend you play with these coding agents, then you can see which ones you like the most.

Github Copilot

Github Copilot One of the first, if not the first coding agent. It is embedded into VSCode and other IDEs. It has a great developer experience. Copilot is in constant evolution. Copilot has one nice thing that is support for many LLM models.

Codex CLI

There are two flavors of Codex. There is the web sandbox version and there is the CLI version. Codex is a good agent where they have their own LLM Model which is different from Chat GPT model.

OpenCode

Opencode is an open source coding agent that works with many LLM models.

Jules

Jules is a web sandbox agent by Google backed by Gemini LLM models.

Kiro

Kiro is a coding agent by AWS. Kiro is a fork of VSCode and has a great developer experience. Kiro is different because it implements Spec Driven Development (SDD).

Claude Code

Claude Code by anthropic is another coding agent. IMHO it's the best agent coding tool out there. Claude code works with anthropic LLM models.