AI coding agents: 61 open-source projects (2026)

An open source AI coding agent that runs in your terminal, with a desktop app and two built-in agents for building and planning changes.

An agentic coding tool from Anthropic that runs in your terminal, reads your codebase, and handles coding tasks and git workflows via natural language.

A lightweight coding agent from OpenAI that runs locally in your terminal to help you write and work on code.

A minimal, extensible AI agent harness with a unified multi-provider LLM API, agent runtime, terminal UI, and a coding agent CLI.

An open-source AI agent from Google that brings Gemini into your terminal to query, edit, and automate code.

Open source autonomous coding agent that runs as an IDE extension, terminal CLI, desktop app, or SDK.

A TypeScript coding agent CLI where a single 'ulw' or 'mass ulw' keyword in your prompt makes it plan, delegate to multiple models, and verify the work.

A Rust-based coding agent terminal tool, forked from OpenAI's Codex, built to get strong results from low-cost and open models.

Open-source Rust coding agent for the terminal that edits files, runs commands and works with 40+ model providers, including local models.

A terminal coding agent with built-in LSP, debugger, browser and subagent tools, supporting 60+ model providers.

An open-source coding agent that reads your project, edits files and runs tests from your terminal, desktop, browser or editor.

An open-source coding-agent CLI that runs in the terminal and works with cloud APIs and local model backends like Ollama.

An open-source AI coding agent that runs in your terminal, with companion desktop, web, editor, and chat interfaces.

A terminal-based AI coding agent that connects to your choice of LLM, with LSP and MCP support and per-project sessions.

Open source AI coding agent that runs in VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, or the terminal, with access to 500+ models.

Grok Build is a terminal AI coding agent from SpaceXAI with a full-screen TUI that edits files, runs shell commands and searches the web.

An open-source coding and research agent built on a persistent Python REPL, with subagents, a self-refining harness, and support for long-running tasks.

A Rust-based coding agent harness built to run many AI coding agents in parallel with low memory use and fast startup.

An agent that lets a language model use tools to autonomously fix GitHub issues, with related uses in offensive security and coding challenges.

An open-source agentic coding tool with TUI, Desktop, and Web clients that share one local service, for working on real repositories with multi-agent orchestration.

An open-source terminal coding agent with specialized agents for editing code, plus desktop, web, cloud and chat products built on Codebuff.

GitHub's terminal AI coding agent that builds, debugs and explains code and works with your GitHub repos, issues and pull requests.

Z.ai's AI coding workspace offering a desktop app, browser UI, and terminal agent, built on a shared TypeScript codebase.

An AI coding agent for the terminal that reads and edits code, runs shell commands, and works with Kimi and compatible models.

A terminal-based AI coding agent in Rust that works with many LLM providers, offering a TUI, one-shot CLI, and ZSH plugin modes.

Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code that works with your own models, including hosted APIs, accounts, and local Ollama or llama.cpp.

Mistral's open-source command-line coding assistant that lets you explore and edit a codebase in natural language from the terminal.

An agentic IDE that can control, customize and automate itself, driven from a desktop app, web app, CLI or HTTP API.

A Kotlin Multiplatform, multi-agent AI development platform covering coding, code review, document research, data queries and artifact generation across IDEs, CLI and multiple devices.

A coding agent built on pi, tuned for small local LLMs, with background jobs, plan mode and per-phase model selection.