IDE and editor agents for coding agents
Agents that live inside your editor or IDE. Of the 403 tools on our writing code page, 28 fit this narrower job. By pricing: 13 open source, 2 source-available, 8 free or freemium, 4 paid, usage-based or enterprise, 1 pricing on the maker's site. The most-starred open repos here are Zed (91,879 stars), Cline (70,289 stars), Oh My Pi (35,686 stars). Most come from the coding (19), MCP servers (3), agent infra (1) categories.
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Zed
High-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, with built-in AI agent editing for macOS, Linux and Windows.
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Cline
Autonomous coding agent inside VS Code with step-by-step approvals.
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Oh My Pi
Terminal coding agent with IDE features wired in, from Stencil Labs.
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Cursor
AI code editor with an agent mode and background agents.
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Serena
MCP toolkit that gives coding agents semantic code retrieval and editing, like IDE features.
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Kestra
Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration and scheduling platform where workflows are declared in YAML or built in a no-code editor. It includes an AI Agent task that gives flows an LLM with memory and tools, supports nested agents and the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, and can expose any flow as a tool to external AI agents through its MCP server. It runs in the cloud, on-prem or air-gapped and is Apache 2.0 licensed.
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FastGPT
AI agent building platform with knowledge-base RAG, data processing and a visual workflow editor for deploying question-answering and automation apps.
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Kilo Code
Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, the CLI and the cloud that works with 500+ models at no markup.
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Onlook
An open-source visual editor for React and Tailwind apps where you design on a canvas and an AI agent writes the code. Edit layouts like in Figma, then export clean code to your own repo.
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Roo Code
Discontinued: the open-source VS Code agent with custom modes (architect, code, debug) was shut down on May 15, 2026 and its repo archived; the team now builds Roomote, and roocode.com redirects there. Cline and the community fork ZooCode are the suggested alternatives.
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Superset
Agentic IDE for orchestrating many coding agents in parallel.
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Qodo
AI code review and testing agents that work in the IDE, the terminal and pull requests to catch issues before merge.
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AIO Sandbox
All-in-one Docker sandbox for AI agents that combines a browser, shell, files, MCP, VS Code Server and Jupyter in one container.
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21st Magic MCP
MCP server from 21st.dev that lets Cursor, Claude Code and Windsurf search and generate React and Tailwind UI components inside the editor.
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OpenKnowledge
OpenKnowledge is a free, local-first markdown editor and knowledge base built for working alongside AI agents. It looks and feels like a Notion-style WYSIWYG editor, with callouts, tabs, Mermaid diagrams and media blocks, but every page stays a plain markdown file on your disk. Coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and dozens of others can read and write the same files through its integrations, so specs, team wikis and LLM wikis stay in one place that both people and agents keep up to date. It ships as a desktop app plus a web UI and CLI.
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AutoDev
Multi-agent development platform built on Kotlin Multiplatform for research, coding, review and data queries across IntelliJ, VS Code, CLI and more.
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Jupyter AI
Official JupyterLab extension that connects AI agents and chat to notebooks.
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OpenSumi
Framework for building AI-native IDE products, with an MCP client and agent features.
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ThinkRail
JetBrains' lightweight agentic IDE that pairs you with the pi coding agent, with isolated git-worktree workspaces, editor tabs, terminals and diffs.
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Vicoa
Vicoa is an agent-native IDE for running Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and 40+ other coding agents in parallel, each on its own git worktree, from desktop, web or phone, with notifications when an agent needs you.
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BrowserStack MCP
BrowserStack's official MCP server, letting coding agents run manual and automated tests on real browsers and devices, debug failures and check accessibility from the IDE.
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LaunchDarkly MCP
LaunchDarkly's official MCP server, so agents can create, update and clean up feature flags, AI configs and targeting rules from the IDE or chat.
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Amp
Agentic coding tool for the terminal and editor.
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Factory
Agent-native software development platform whose Droids write code, run tests and handle deployments from the IDE, terminal or Slack.
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Openlayer MCP
Openlayer's MCP server, letting coding agents pull evaluation results, failing tests and monitoring data from Openlayer so they can debug and improve AI systems from the IDE.
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Runcell
AI agent for Jupyter notebooks that writes and runs code cells.
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TRAE
AI coding IDE and agent that works alongside you in your editor to write, edit and run code.
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Windsurf
AI IDE with the Cascade agent, now rebranded as Devin Desktop after Cognition acquired Windsurf (windsurf.com redirects there).
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GitHub repos (22)
| Repo | GitHub stars | Licence | Last push |
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| 91,879 | — | 2026-10-22 | |
| 70,289 | Apache License 2.0 | 2026-10-22 | |
| 35,686 | MIT | 2026-10-22 | |
| 33,283 | — | 2026-05-12 | |
| 30,329 | GPL-3.0-or-later for the Serena application; MIT for SolidLSP | 2026-10-20 | |
| 29,948 | — | — | |
| 29,851 | FastGPT Open Source License (Apache 2.0 with additional conditions) | 2026-10-22 | |
| 27,649 | MIT | 2026-10-22 | |
| 26,963 | — | 2026-07-22 | |
| 24,281 | Apache License 2.0 | 2026-05-15 | |
| 15,289 | Elastic License 2.0 (source-available) | 2026-10-22 | |
| 13,415 | MIT | 2026-10-22 | |
| 6,205 | Apache License 2.0 | 2026-09-14 | |
| 6,161 | ISC | 2026-09-09 | |
| 4,646 | — | 2026-10-22 |
Top 15 of 22 by stars. Stars and licence come from each repo, checked when the listing was last verified.
FAQ
What are the best AI tools for writing code focused on IDE and editor agents?
We list 28. The first three by GitHub stars and featured status are Zed: High-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, with built-in AI agent editing for macOS, Linux and Windows.; Cline: Autonomous coding agent inside VS Code with step-by-step approvals.; Oh My Pi: Terminal coding agent with IDE features wired in, from Stencil Labs.
Are there free or open-source options?
Yes: 13 open source, 2 source-available, 8 free or freemium, 4 paid, usage-based or enterprise, 1 pricing on the maker's site. Pricing is as each maker states it.
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