AI coding assistants
AI coding assistants and coding agents write, change or explain code when you describe what you want in plain language. This page lists 48 AI coding assistants and coding agents; the latest additions are Garden Skills, Stroq and gstack. Open any project to see what it lets you do, what its creator says you need and its original source.
Projects to explore
- agent-skills Add senior-engineer habits to your AI coding assistant
Give your AI coding agent the same engineering checks at every stage, from writing a spec to testing and shipping.
- ECC Give your coding agent a plan, test and review routine
Install a ready-made routine so your AI coding agent plans before it builds, tests its changes and reviews its own work from a fresh context.
- Stroq Check AI coding agent sessions for leaked keys
Stroq scans your recent Claude Code and Codex sessions for keys that left your machine.
- ai-memory Let coding agents hand off memory to each other across tools
ai-memory is a self-hosted memory server that lets more than twenty different coding-agent tools — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and others — share one memory instead of each keeping its own that vanishes when you switch tools.
- android/skills Guide coding agents through Android tasks
Install Android-specific instructions so a coding agent can follow a workflow such as making an app edge-to-edge.
- OpenCode let an AI agent read, plan and edit code in your terminal
Ask an AI agent to explore your codebase, plan changes and write code from your terminal or a desktop app.
- claude-code Run an AI coding agent in your terminal on your own codebase
Anthropic’s coding agent for the terminal.
- ai-agent-book Learn how AI agents work from a free book with 109 experiments
A complete book on building AI agents, published free and in the open by Bojie Li, organised around one formula: an agent is a language model plus context plus tools.
- diagram-design Draw branded diagrams with your agent
Describe the diagram you want in ordinary words, and your AI agent creates a file you can open in a browser.
- Cline Run an open coding agent in your editor, terminal or as an SDK
An open-source coding agent available in five shapes from one engine: a VS Code extension, a JetBrains plugin, a terminal tool that also runs headless for automation, a desktop app, and a software development kit for building your own agents on top.
- Garden Skills Give your coding agent video and web design skills
Install ready-made skills so Claude Code, Cursor or Codex can make short videos, web pages and articles.
- codebase-memory-mcp Give a coding agent an instant map of a whole codebase
codebase-memory-mcp is an MCP server (a tool that plugs into AI coding assistants) that reads a codebase and builds a searchable knowledge graph of its functions, classes, call chains and cross-file links, so an agent can answer structural questions about the code in under a millisecond instead of reading files one at a time.
- Ponytail Teach your coding agent to write less code, like a senior dev
Ponytail is a plug-in skill that teaches AI coding assistants to write less code: the agent learns to prefer the shortest change that works — the project frames it as thinking "like the laziest senior dev in the room." The creator measured it on real Claude Code sessions across twelve feature tasks and reports about 54% less code on average (up to 94% where the agent would otherwise over-build, as with a date picker), roughly 20% lower cost and 27% faster runs, with every safety guard kept.
- Experiential Route AI model requests through one controlled gateway
Send requests to hosted, your-own-key, or local AI models through one gateway.
- cc-switch Switch AI model providers across your coding tools in one click
CC Switch is a desktop app that manages provider settings for a dozen-plus AI coding tools — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and others — so switching from one model provider to another does not mean hand-editing JSON, TOML or YAML configuration files.
- FreeToken Run large open AI models on your gaming PC
Run big open-weight AI models on your own gaming PC and chat with them.
- big-arrow-on-the-screen Point users to Mac controls with bigarrow
Let a coding agent draw a big arrow with a sign over any Mac window to show you which button to click.
- gstack Turn Claude Code into a virtual engineering team
Review code, test in a real browser and ship code changes with typed commands in your coding agent.
- Spec Kit Turn a written spec into plans, tasks and code
Spec Kit gives your AI coding agent a step-by-step process to build a feature, fix a bug or assess an idea.
- Graphify Map a codebase and its docs into a graph you can query
An add-on for AI coding assistants that maps code, docs, PDFs and images into a graph you can ask questions about instead of searching files.
- ThinkRail Run coding agents in isolated git workspaces
Let an AI coding agent work on separate git branches inside an IDE, then review its changes and open a pull request.
- caveman Cut your coding agent’s bill by making it drop the filler
A skill, plus an optional proxy, that makes an AI coding agent write in clipped fragments instead of full explanatory prose.
- firstmate Talk to one coding agent and have it run several others for you
A shell tool that puts a single agent — the first mate — in front of a crew of autonomous coding agents.
- Taste Skill Make your coding agent design pages with real art direction
Lets developers have their coding agent design a landing page or dashboard with an art direction, real pictures and a browser check.
- pstack-claude Route coding tasks through engineering workflows
Route coding tasks into repeatable workflows for debugging, planning, refactoring, and more.
- context-mode Stop tool output from eating your coding agent’s memory
A tool server that sits between a coding agent and the tools it calls, and keeps the bulky results out of the conversation.
- OpenRig Run Claude Code and Codex together as one agent team
OpenRig turns a pile of AI coding-assistant windows into an organized team: you describe the team in a YAML settings file, start it with one command, and it runs Claude Code, Codex and Pi with roles, shared context and owned tasks.
- Superpowers Make your coding agent agree a plan before it writes code
Describe what you want to build and have your AI coding agent ask questions, agree a written design with you, and only then write code from a step-by-step plan with tests.
- Ollama Chat with AI models on your own computer
Ollama lets you choose an AI model and chat with it on your own computer.
- Atlas Keep the reasoning behind every commit an agent makes
A desktop app that treats agent sessions as something worth version-controlling.
- impeccable Stop your AI coding agent from making every site look the same
Impeccable is a design skill for AI coding agents that pushes back against the handful of visual habits (the same font, the same gradient, cards nested in cards) that show up on nearly every AI-generated interface.
- PGX Create disposable Postgres databases for agents and tests
PGX creates isolated, short-lived PostgreSQL-compatible databases for coding agents, CI jobs, pull requests and tests.
- t3code Control coding agents from desktop, web, or phone
Follow and direct coding agents on your computer through web, desktop, and mobile interfaces.
- billion-context Compress long coding-agent conversations
Compress older coding-agent messages into searchable summaries and restore exact context later.
- Ruflo Add agent teams, memory and a control console to Claude Code
Add a layer to Claude Code or Codex that splits tasks across teams of specialized agents and remembers past work.
- FreeLLMAPI Combine many AI providers' free tiers behind one address
Send AI requests to one local server that routes across many providers' free tiers, for developers and coding-agent users who want to stack free quotas.
- Claude-Mem Carry your coding agent’s project memory into the next session
A plugin that records what an AI coding agent did, turns those observations into searchable summaries, and brings the relevant decisions and fixes into a later session.
- Archify Turn plans and codebases into interactive visual guides
Turn ideas, plans or repositories into interactive visuals with this assistant skill, for people explaining systems or organizing what they want to learn.
- PI-Desktop Give your coding agent a desktop of its own, with your model
A desktop workspace built specifically for AI coding agents, rather than an agent bolted into an editor or a terminal.
- Hindsight Give a coding agent memory that learns instead of just recalling
Hindsight is a memory system for AI agents, built to notice patterns across many conversations rather than only replaying past ones the way a typical chat history or a RAG lookup (search over stored documents) does.
- vercel-labs/skills Find and install reusable instructions for coding agents
Find and install reusable instructions for coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, or create a skill for a repeated task.
- router Let your coding agent pick an AI model for each request
Weave Router sits between a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, opencode, pi or Cursor) and the AI providers, and picks a model from your enabled providers for each request.
- wshobson/agents add 94 ready-made coding plugins to Claude Code, Codex or Cursor
Install specialist helpers for code review, testing, security and Python or JavaScript work into your AI coding tool.
- XERJ Let your coding assistant search your files instead of reading them all
Let an AI coding assistant search your code, docs, logs and PDFs locally for the exact passage it needs.
- WebCodex Let ChatGPT or Claude edit code on your own computer
WebCodex connects cloud-based AI chat tools like ChatGPT and Claude to a real development environment running on your own machine, so you can ask them to inspect a repository, modify code, run tests, use Git, or investigate a failure without moving your project into a hosted workspace first.
- Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B Ask about screenshots, charts and code bugs
Send a screenshot, chart or document and get a written explanation, or hand it a bug to fix.
- Flint Fix bugs and write tests with a coding agent (39.8B)
Let an AI model investigate code, fix bugs, add features and write tests, for developers who host their own coding agents.
- Spark-X2.6-4B Chat, code and plan tasks on your own device
Run a compact language model on your own device for coding, tool-using agents and long inputs; for developers building on-device AI apps.
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