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AI Coding Directory

AI-powered code editors and assistants. Browse all 77 cataloged software options, compare specifications, and find the right tool for your workflow.

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Cursor

4.8

AI-first code editor built on VS Code

#Best AI code editor #Multi-file editing #Codebase-aware
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Lobsteady

4.7

Runs Claude Code as a 24/7 AI assistant on Telegram, Discord & Slack for a flat $20/mo — no separate API bills needed.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Reliable hosted service
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Cate

4.7

Open-source canvas IDE for agentic coding workflows that provides a visual interface for managing multi-step AI coding tasks.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Free to use / Open source
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OpenAI Codex

4.7

OpenAI's cloud coding agent that works across your repositories and terminals.

#Deep repo understanding #Runs in your terminal #Backed by OpenAI models
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GitHub Copilot

4.6

AI pair programmer by GitHub/OpenAI

#Deep GitHub integration #Wide language support #Chat + completion
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Sync

4.6

Project management and quality control layer for AI agents that binds to code changes to auto-flag stale context, forcing agents to follow project conventions and decisions.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Free to use / Open source
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Chrome DevTools MCP

4.6

An official Chrome DevTools MCP server that lets your coding agent (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, Antigravity) control and inspect a live Chrome browser — performance traces, network inspection, console messages, and reliable Puppeteer-based automation.

#Official Google Chrome DevTools MCP server #Performance insights via recorded traces #Advanced browser debugging (network, console, screenshots)
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v0 by Vercel

4.5

AI UI component generator for React/Next.js

#Beautiful UI generation #React/Next.js focus #Shadcn integration
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Claude Code

4.5

Terminal-based AI coding agent by Anthropic

#Deep codebase understanding #Autonomous coding #Git integration
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OpenYabby

4.5

Voice-controlled multi-agent orchestrator for Claude Code that uses Realtime API with CLI runners and multi-channel orchestration.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Free to use / Open source
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Mcpsnoop

4.5

Mcpsnoop is a transparent proxy and live terminal UI that acts as 'Wireshark for MCP.' It sits in the real data path between your AI client (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) and your MCP servers, capturing every JSON-RPC frame — tool calls, arguments, responses, stderr — as they actually happen. Unlike the official MCP Inspector, which connects as a second client off to the side, Mcpsnoop sees exactly what your real client and server say to each other, including calls the model never made or made with wrong arguments. It flags slow and hung calls, surfaces invalid frames, supports replay, capability inspection, and session export (JSON/HTML/text/OTLP), and runs as a single dependency-free binary (Go, MIT licensed).

#Sees real client-to-server traffic (Inspector can't) #Zero-config: wrap your server, the TUI auto-pairs #Flags slow, hung, and invalid JSON-RPC calls
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Caveman

4.5

A skill/plugin for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor and 30+ coding agents that makes your AI talk like a caveman — same answers, 65% fewer output tokens. Brain still big, mouth small.

#65% fewer output tokens with no loss in answer quality #Works with 30+ coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor) #Simple slash-command / skill install
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Windsurf (Codeium)

4.4

Free AI code completion and chat assistant

#Generous free tier #Fast completions #Multi-IDE
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Lovable

4.4

AI full-stack app builder that generates production-ready web apps from natural language

#Full-stack generation with deployment #Clean, production-ready code output #GitHub integration for version control
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Lore

4.4

LLM proxy for coding agents that manages shared context and memory across agent sessions, reducing token waste and improving continuity.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Free to use / Open source
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Polis

4.4

Multi-coding-agent control plane that coordinates Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and Cursor agents working on the same codebase via contracts and experience accumulation, reducing repeat errors from 65% to 8%.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Free to use / Open source
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Ito.ai

4.4

Code review that actually runs your code, finding more bugs with lower false positive rate, providing screenshots, videos, and run logs.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Reliable hosted service
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git-lrc

4.4

Micro AI code reviews that run on git commit, opening a review UI with diff summary and risk patterns check across 10 categories.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Free to use / Open source
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Drydock

4.4

Hardware-isolated VM sandbox for macOS autonomous coding agents — agent never sees your real API key, egress is deny-by-default, only git diff leaves the sandbox gated on your approval.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Free to use / Open source
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Codex plugin for Claude Code

4.4

An OpenAI plugin that brings Codex directly into Claude Code — run read-only or adversarial code reviews and delegate background tasks to Codex without leaving your Claude Code workflow.

#/codex:review for read-only Codex reviews #/codex:adversarial-review for challenge reviews #Delegate tasks with /codex:rescue, /transfer, /status
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OneCLI

4.4

An open-source secret vault and credential gateway for AI agents. Store API keys once in OneCLI and the Rust gateway injects them into outbound requests at call time — agents work with placeholder keys and never see the real secrets.

#Agents never see real secrets #Encrypted at rest #Per-agent scoped tokens
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Mocktail

4.4

Mocktail is a self-hosted mock API server and dashboard shipped as a single ~25 MB binary — define endpoints and realistic responses, watch live traffic, and let AI (bring-your-own-key) or the built-in MCP server draft and manage mocks.

#Single ~25 MB binary with built-in dashboard; install via Homebrew, Docker, or direct download #Edit, validate, and randomize responses (uuid/email/price/name generators) per request #Live request stream shows method, status, latency, and exact response + headers
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DeepSeek Harness

4.4

DeepSeek's agent harness for orchestrating coding and reasoning workflows.

#Open and reasoning-driven #Composable agent workflows #DeepSeek model quality
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Replit Agent

4.3

AI-powered cloud IDE that builds full apps

#Full app generation #Cloud deployment #Collaboration
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Bolt.new

4.3

AI full-stack app builder in the browser

#Full-stack generation #In-browser preview #Quick prototyping
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Command Center

4.3

AI coding environment that turns AI-generated code into production code 2x faster with interactive walkthrough reviews for multi-file changes.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Free to use / Open source
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Page Agent

4.3

An open-source JavaScript in-page GUI agent from Alibaba that lets you control any web interface with natural language — click, fill, navigate and extract data through a Chrome extension and npm package.

#Control web UIs with natural language #Runs as a Chrome extension + npm package #Open source (MIT), backed by Alibaba
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Forall

4.3

A coding agent from Astrio that helps developers build correct software by generating spec-driven code alongside machine-checkable proofs. Run it as a full CLI or as an MCP verify-only layer inside Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex.

#Spec-driven code generation with machine-checkable proofs #Full CLI coding agent — specs, proofs, and workflow in your terminal #MCP verify-only mode — add hosted verification without leaving Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex
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NexusMem

4.3

NexusMem is a local, zero-cloud memory engine for coding agents that indexes shell history with exit codes, per-file git diffs, and project docs into a local SQLite database, then serves token-budgeted context snippets over MCP — no account, no telemetry.

#Records shell commands with exit codes, git history (per-file patches), and project docs into a local SQLite DB #Hybrid retrieval: BM25 (FTS5) + optional vector search (sqlite-vec/Ollama) fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion #Token-budget packing returns ranked, pruned context chunks without calling a model to summarize
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Devx

4.3

Ultra-fast terminal AI coding agent and vibe-coding assistant for Android (Termux), Windows, macOS, and Linux. Features dual PLAN/AGENT modes, multimodal vision, a built-in live web server, diagnostics, and snapshot rollback.

#Dual-brain PLAN (safe architect) and AGENT (autonomous executor) modes #Multimodal vision — paste screenshots straight from clipboard #Self-healing diagnostics (tsc, node --check, py_compile, cargo check) with auto-fix
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Strix

4.3

Open-source AI-powered penetration testing tool that automatically finds and helps fix application vulnerabilities. Leverages LLM-driven agents to perform autonomous security assessments against web applications, APIs, and infrastructure.

#Autonomous Vulnerability Discovery #LLM-Powered Attack Planning #Automated Fix Recommendations
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Aether

4.3

Aether (runaether.dev) turns the AI subscription you already pay for into parallel cloud devboxes where an agent streams every command, opens a PR, and another agent reviews and fixes it until the code holds up.

#Charges only for compute, not a second AI bill #Truly interruptible agent loop #Review agent catches real regressions
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Agent Joe

4.2

Open-source TUI-based Rust programming assistant with no shell access, providing a safer sandboxed environment for AI-assisted coding.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Free to use / Open source
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Freebuff

4.2

Free CLI coding agent powered by ads, a free alternative to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Lovable.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Free to use / Open source
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smolfs

4.2

An open-source tool giving AI coding agents persistent workspace volumes that survive process exits, with local SQLite and cloud Redis+S3 backends.

#Durable persistent workspaces #Local dev mode #Cloud-backed volumes
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Selvedge

4.2

Selvedge is a local MCP server that gives AI coding agents a durable memory of why code changed. As Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot work, Selvedge logs the reasoning behind every edit — captured live, in the same context that produced it — and stores it in a SQLite file next to your code. Instead of guessing from a generated commit message months later, you can run `selvedge blame payments.amount` and see the original intent.

#Captures the 'why', not just the 'what' #Runs fully local with zero telemetry #Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Cline, Windsurf
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cap'n hook

4.2

cap'n hook (capn-hook) is a lightweight, local-first memory tool for coding agents. The problem it solves is simple: agents forget everything when a session ends, so they re-explore the same codebase mysteries every time. capn lets an agent save the files that answer a question the moment it figures them out, then recall them with a single command next session — skipping the rediscovery. The clever part is cache-busting: each saved answer is fingerprinted with the sha256 of its backing files, and the moment a file changes or disappears, that memory is automatically deleted. You never get a stale answer. It installs as a SessionStart hook for Claude Code and Codex (no wrapper, no middleware), stores human-readable Markdown entries in a local, gitignored .capn/ directory, and works agent-agnostically via its CLI. In a benchmark across 60 real developer questions on 5 production codebases, agents using capn recalled answers with 77% fewer tokens than cold exploration at equal correctness.

#Saves agents from re-exploring known code #Auto cache-bust on file change — no stale answers #Zero wrapper: just a SessionStart hook
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Reame

4.2

Reame is a lean, fully-tested LLM inference server built on llama.cpp and designed for the hardware you already have — shared vCPUs, free-tier instances, even 2-core ARM boxes. Its core thesis: on a CPU, never compute the same thing twice. It caches prompts, prefixes, and past generations to disk (zstd + LRU), so the 100th request costs a fraction of the first. It exposes an OpenAI-compatible REST API (/v1/completions, /v1/chat/completions, SSE streaming, sessions, bearer auth, metrics) and runs a single model per process, CPU-only. Distinguished extras include persistent prefix KV caching, a generation archive (Palimpsest) that drafts repeat answers for free, self-regulating speculative decoding, and the Conclave (--best-of N consensus voting). It's free, MIT-licensed, and self-hosted — but deliberately focused: no GPU offload, no training, no model-management UX. Best for narrow, repetitive workloads (document extraction, batch pipelines, private code completion) rather than a general ChatGPT replacement.

#CPU-first: runs on free-tier VPS, shared vCPUs, 2-core ARM #Disk KV + generation cache: request #100 costs a fraction of #1 #OpenAI-compatible API (chat, completions, SSE, sessions)
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wmux

4.2

A workspace multiplexer for AI coding agents. Where tmux splits a terminal, wmux multiplexes whole workspaces — terminals, agents, git worktrees, a browser and the channels they coordinate over — owned by a daemon that survives quits, crashes and full OS reboots.

#Genuine multi-agent orchestration with fan-out and per-hunk adoption #Approval gates for safety #Survives crashes and reboots
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Deltix

4.2

Deltix is an AI-driven mobile app testing service: describe a task in plain English and a local agent runs it on an iOS Simulator on your Mac to verify whether a real user could complete it, with screenshots and a replayable run record.

#Plain-English task to AI agent executes it on a local iOS Simulator (source/build never leave your Mac) #Three modes: Task (try once), Playbook (save & replay deterministically on every build), Experiment (compare two builds) #Captures step-by-step screenshots and a run record you can review, replay, or delete
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Rayline

4.1

Routing layer for coding agents that routes every subagent call to the best model for quality, speed, and cost — connects to Claude Code and other coding agents.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Free to use / Open source
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Righthand

4.1

Autonomous AI employees with skills, goals, and CLI that work inside your existing tools and proactively initiate work.

#Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface #Free to use / Open source
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Leakproof

4.1

Local secret-egress firewall for AI coding assistants (Claude Code/Cursor/aider) that scans and redacts secrets before anything leaves the machine.

#Highly secure & local-first #Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface
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Crawlie

4.1

Fast, free, open-source technical SEO + GEO crawler built for humans and agents, with CLI, MCP server, and desktop app.

#MCP protocol compatible #Boosts workflow efficiency #User-friendly interface
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peek-cli

4.1

A tool that lets coding agents capture a screenshot of any open browser tab. Pair it with a Chrome extension and your agents can see and iterate on frontend designs until they're right.

#Lets agents screenshot any open browser tab via a Chrome extension #A WebSocket daemon streams screenshots to the agent #Works with Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, and more
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Claude Code Merge Queue

4.1

A local, zero-cost merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents. When several agents land, build and test at the same time, it serializes them through a FIFO queue so push races, redundant heavy builds and shared-resource test flakiness cannot happen.

#Eliminates a real class of multi-agent bugs #Zero runtime dependencies #Free on any repo including private
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HarnessRouter

4.1

Self-hosted unified interface for multiple agent harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, opencode, Hermes, Pi, DSH) behind one OpenAI-compatible API via the Unified Harness Protocol (UHP). No account, no cloud, no telemetry — your keys, your infrastructure.

#Single OpenAI-compatible /v1 API across many agent harnesses #Fully self-hosted (Docker, ~4GB) with local SQLite and file storage #Real POSIX workspaces with bash, git, and filesystem — not a mock sandbox
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Lowfat

4.0

Pluggable CLI filter that strips noise from command output to save up to 91.8% of LLM tokens for AI coding agents

#Saves up to 91.8% token usage in CLI output #Pluggable plugin system with built-in git/docker/kubectl filters #Multi-agent integration (Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor)
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Proctor

4.0

Open-source tool that prevents AI coding agents from cheating in benchmarks via kernel-level sandbox isolation and ed25519 cryptographic signing.

#Kernel-level sandbox isolation #Cryptographic ed25519 signing #Prevents benchmark cheating
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Toolnexus

4.0

Provider-agnostic toolkit: dynamic MCP servers plus agent skills for any LLM, enabling multi-agent collaboration

#Dynamic MCP servers — spins up MCP endpoints on demand without static configuration #Agent skills system — reusable skill definitions that any LLM can invoke regardless of provider #Multi-agent collaboration — built-in primitives for inter-agent communication and task delegation
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PMB

4.0

Local-first memory for AI coding agents with hybrid recall (BM25 + vectors + entity graph), MCP-native with ~35ms recall

#Hybrid recall engine — combines BM25 (keyword), vector embeddings (semantic), and entity graph (relational) for multi-strategy retrieval #Local-first architecture — all memory and indexes live on-device; no cloud dependency, no API calls for core operations #MCP-native integration — exposes memory operations as standard MCP tools, plug-and-play with any MCP-compatible agent harness
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TaskPeace

4.0

TaskPeace is an MCP-native task manager designed specifically for AI coding agents. It provides a single ranked priority queue that spans multiple AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.), allowing agents to autonomously pull the next task, complete it, and report back — all without manual orchestration or glue code.

#Single Ranked Queue #MCP-Native Integration #Agent Autopilot Loop
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Contextify

4.0

Strong recommendation for Claude Code/Codex users on macOS. The free tier alone is worth installing. Self-hosting option makes it viable for teams.

#Solves a real, urgent problem — Claude Code's 30-day history deletion #Cross-tool context bridging between Claude Code and Codex is unique #Local-first architecture with privacy by default — no account required for core features
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Millwright

4.0

An open-source, self-hosted LLM router in a single Rust binary. It sits between your AI apps and model providers, routing each request to the lowest-cost healthy model your policy allows — with cache-aware affinity and spend control.

#Self-hosted LLM router in one Rust binary — no hosted control plane #Policy-controlled routing across cheap, mid, and frontier roles #Cache-aware session affinity to protect prompt-cache reuse
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Backlog

4.0

A local-first task and context manager for humans and AI coding agents — one SQLite database that your CLI, web UI, and every agent read and write directly, with full actor attribution

AI Coding

mu

4.0

mu is a single MCP endpoint that gives an agent 83 real tools — news, web search, mail, markets, weather, video, and storage — through one connection and one set of credentials, instead of wiring up a separate server for each. It runs the mail server, feed aggregator, search index, and sandbox itself. Self-host the one Go binary and anyone paying to call your tools pays you; or point your agent at micro.mu's hosted endpoint.

#drastic reduction in MCP wiring #self-hosted with real services #works across major agents.
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Dejavu

4.0

Stop showing coding agents the same command output twice — deduplicates terminal output to save tokens and improve agent efficiency

#PATH shim architecture — intercepts commands by placing a shim directory at the front of PATH; always runs the real command, only changes what the agent sees on repeated runs #Cross-run deduplication — remembers previous command output and returns only a compact delta (or 'unchanged' notice) when output is identical or nearly identical, suppressing redundant tokens #Zero-prompt integration — works without instructing the agent to behave differently; no MCP protocol or prompt engineering required, the shim is transparent to the agent
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Gawk CLI

4.0

A zero-dependency Node.js CLI that brings the gawk.dev live AI-ecosystem feed into your terminal — curated AI news, model rankings, tool health, and SDK adoption, all source-traceable.

#Curated AI wire feed with source attribution #OpenRouter model rankings in-terminal #Vendor-declared tool health monitoring
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Durable AI agents without the workflow engine

4.0

A managed runtime (noworkflows.dev) that gives AI agents durable, resumable execution through a session abstraction — event log plus VM plus resume — without wiring a workflow engine.

#Session abstraction survives restarts and crashes #Three-call API: start, step, resume #Managed sandbox and journaling
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Doberman

4.0

Runtime guardrails for AI coding agents. Sits on the execution path as a transparent MCP proxy or host hook and intercepts every input, output, and tool call with a PASS / AUTH / BLOCK verdict. Fails closed on any error or uncertainty.

#Fail-closed: uncertain or errored actions are denied, never silently run #Three verdicts — PASS (zero friction), AUTH (human approval), BLOCK (never runs) #Works as MCP proxy or native host hook for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Claude Desktop
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Lathe

3.9

Open-source CLI tool that uses LLM skills to generate hands-on multi-part technical tutorials with a local Web UI for learning by doing

#Unique 'LLM teaches, you code' hands-on learning approach #Agent-agnostic SKILL.md standard supports 7+ coding agents #Built-in verification system catches hallucinated or broken tutorials
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MCPlexer

3.9

A unified MCP operating-system layer providing directory-scoped routing, persistent workers, task management, browser control, and cross-framework agent dispatch.

#Directory-scoped MCP routing #Cross-harness delegation and workers #Human-in-the-loop approvals
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Prototyper

3.9

Visual workspace for AI agents and teams — give Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents a shared infinite canvas where plans, apps, and diagrams become real, running code. Built on Unix principles with MCP-native agent integration.

#Multi-Agent Shared Canvas #Bidirectional Code-Design Editing #Bring Your Own Agent (MCP-Native)
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Claude-Trofeo-HUD

3.9

A desk HUD that streams live Claude usage onto a ~$38 Thermalright Trofeo Vision 6.86-inch LCD (1280x480, USB-C) from macOS. Shows Pro/Max session and weekly limit bars, today's tokens, hypothetical API cost, live session activity, and an hourly burn sparkline.

#Cheap hardware — a $38 LCD turns into a live Claude dashboard #Reads Claude Code local logs and Keychain token read-only; nothing leaves the machine except the usage query #Session/weekly limit gauges with reset countdowns from Anthropic's usage endpoint
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Orchestrator

3.8

Orchestrator is a local CLI + agent skill that lets you run and supervise many coding agents from a single interface. You speak in models and outcomes — 'use Fable for the UI, GPT-5.6 Sol for implementation, Grok for fixes, run in parallel, then have Opus review' — and Orchestrator launches and monitors each worker agent (Codex, Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Grok Build, Pi) in the background. It is not a harness; it runs inside the harness you already use.

#Orchestrate multiple agents from one place #Discovers live model names from runtimes #Per-task status, logs, resume, stop controls
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agent-run

3.8

agent-run is a tiny (under 1 MB) standalone binary that runs coding agents — pi, opencode, codex, or claude — inside a Bubblewrap (bwrap) sandbox. Its purpose is to let an agent operate freely inside your project without being able to touch anything outside it: the host filesystem is mounted read-only by default, and only paths you explicitly allow become read-write. It's built for catching agent mistakes, not malicious code — if an agent tries to delete your home directory or exfiltrate a file, the sandbox contains it. Configuration is a simple TOML file with per-tool sections (tools.claude, tools.codex, …) controlling env inheritance, network access, and mounts. The bwrap binary is compiled for the target platform and embedded directly into agent-run, then exec'd at runtime via a memfd, so there's no separate dependency to install. It currently supports aarch64 and x86_64 Linux and depends on unprivileged user namespaces.

#Under 1MB, no runtime dependencies #Read-only host FS by default, explicit mounts only #Catches agent mistakes before they spread
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Tesana

3.8

AI game maker that turns plain-text prompts into playable games and experiences — no coding required. Targets everyone from hobbyists to small studios with example prompts like train tycoon, space colony, and desert survival.

#Text-to-game — describe an idea and get a playable result #No coding needed, lowering the barrier to game creation #Example prompts (tycoon, colony, survival) guide first builds
AI Coding

SNAFU

3.8

Agentic LLM flow that helps you fix 'naming things' in source code. It computes a Name Ambiguity Number (NAN) for each symbol with no extra context, then walks you through an agentic pipeline to replace ambiguous names with clearer ones.

#Quantifies name quality via Shannon entropy / perplexity (NAN) #Human-in-the-loop confirms the real meaning before any rename #Drops candidates that don't improve (NAN delta <= 0) and sanity-checks survivors
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Infraas.ai

3.8

An AI platform that makes batch changes across microservices from a natural-language description, generating PRs with CI validation and auto-fixes.

#Natural-language change descriptions lower the barrier #MCP integration fits existing AI workflows #Open-source self-host, free except LLM API cost
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Faultsense

3.8

Faultsense is a lightweight, zero-dependency browser agent that evaluates end-to-end assertions against real user sessions in production. You write assertions as fs-* attributes on the UI elements they check, and Faultsense decides pass or fail in a real browser on the user's own device — 'the expect() without the page'. Assertions live next to the markup they check and run wherever your app runs, replacing CI-only test suites with in-field, real-user-session verification.

#Attribute-based in-DOM assertions (fs-* attributes) #Real-user-session testing in production (RUM-style assertions) #Dual-driver ready: AI agent in staging, real users in production
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Plasma Wiki

3.8

Indexed knowledge bases with command-line tools for agents — a deterministic CLI that generates and maintains _index.md files and cross-links for markdown wikis designed to be read and written by both humans and AI agents.

#Deterministic Index Generation #Auto-Resolved Parallel Edits #Agent-Native CLI Tools
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Convergo

3.8

An open-source plugin for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) that fixes review-loop divergence with a fresh-reviewer exit gate. The loop exits only when an independent reviewer session agrees the work converges.

#Fresh-reviewer exit gate kills self-review bias #Bounded rounds cap divergent agents #Adjudication ratchet stops invalidated findings blocking again
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Socrates

3.6

A multi-agent protocol from Hexo Labs that pairs a tool-using AI Scientist with a question-only advisor (Socrates). The advisor can never give answers, issue directives, or use tools — it can only ask clarifying questions and must approve every experiment plan via an [APPROVED] gate before execution. Published at COLM 2026, the protocol improves Kaggle test scores by +55.9% on average across five MLE-bench tasks compared to the same agent running solo.

#Question-Only Advisor Protocol #Mandatory [APPROVED] Gate #Dual Scaffold Architecture
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Agent Bus

3.5

An open-source MCP-based communication bus that gives AI coding agents a shared group chat. Any agent that speaks MCP can join, see who else is online, send direct messages, post to channels, share state on a common blackboard, and claim work items. Think IRC, but the users are your coding agents.

#MCP-Native Communication Bus #Direct Messages with Queued Delivery #Channels and Private Channels
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DesktopMCP

3.3

An MCP server that gives AI models 144 Linux desktop interaction tools combining visual screenshots, AT-SPI semantic UI understanding, and D-Bus system control.

#Dual-mode interaction (visual + semantic) #144 tools across 5 domains #Sandboxed by XDG Desktop Portals
AI Coding

Social CLI

3.3

An MCP-native CLI that lets AI agents post, read, and manage LinkedIn and X/Twitter accounts from the terminal with structured JSON output and human-in-the-loop approval.

#MCP-native, auto-discovered by agents #Full LinkedIn + X/Twitter management #Human-in-the-loop approval before publishing
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Q

3.0

A REPL for LLM inside the terminal — query any LLM interactively without leaving your command line

#Interleaved Terminal + LLM REPL #OpenAI-compatible Local LLM Support #MCP Server Integration

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

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Our database currently tracks 77 ai coding tools and platforms, covering free, freemium, open-source, and commercial solutions.

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