# CLI Agent

Anthropic's agentic coding CLI

Anthropic's agentic CLI coding tool that delegates complex tasks to Claude directly from the terminal. Understands entire codebases via automatic context gathering, edits multiple files, runs shell commands, and manages Git workflows autonomously. Supports CLAUDE.md for persistent project instructions, integrates with VS Code and JetBrains, and uses Claude Opus/Sonnet with extended thinking for complex architectural decisions. Built for terminal-first developers.

OpenAI coding agent for app, editor, terminal, and cloud work

Codex is OpenAI's coding agent for software development across the Codex app, editor, terminal, and cloud tasks. It helps write, review, debug, refactor, and automate code, with ChatGPT plan access for managed surfaces and API-key usage for CLI, SDK, and IDE workflows. The open-source CLI and SDK support local repository work, while cloud features add GitHub review, Slack/Linear integrations, worktrees, skills, MCP, and automations.

Open-source AI agent framework with persistent memory, reusable skills, tools, and messaging gateways

Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework with persistent memory, reusable skills, 40+ tools, cron jobs, and messaging gateways.

Agentic coding tool by Sourcegraph (formerly Cody)

Amp Frontier Corporation's multi-model coding agent for terminal, web, and IDE-connected workflows. It uses GPT-5.6, Claude Fable 5, and fast models across low, medium, high, and ultra modes, with subagents, an Oracle second-opinion model, shared threads, remote orbs, MCP, and plugins. Pricing combines a daily free credit grant, $20/$200 monthly subscriptions, and optional pay-as-you-go credits.

AI-powered Kubernetes diagnostics in plain English

K8sGPT is a CNCF Sandbox project that scans Kubernetes clusters, diagnoses issues, and explains problems in plain English with actionable remediation steps. It codifies SRE expertise into built-in analyzers for Pods, Services, Deployments, Ingress, PVCs, CronJobs, and more. K8sGPT connects to AI backends including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, Amazon Bedrock, Cohere, and local models via Ollama, with data anonymization to protect sensitive cluster information.

Agentic skills framework for disciplined coding-agent workflows

Superpowers is an MIT-licensed agentic skills framework and software-development methodology for coding agents. It packages repeatable workflows such as brainstorming, specs, implementation plans, TDD execution, subagent-driven development, and structured review so teams can move from ad hoc prompting to disciplined agent-assisted software delivery.

Glamorous agentic coding for the terminal by Charm

LSP-enhanced terminal coding agent from Charmbracelet with the broadest cross-platform support including Android. Features mid-session model switching and MCP extensibility for custom tool integration. Combines the elegance of Charmbracelet's TUI toolkit with practical coding assistance, offering a polished terminal experience for developers on any platform.

Open-source extensible AI agent by Block

Autonomous coding agent from Block (Square) that works with any LLM through MCP-first extensibility. Apache 2.0 licensed with 47K+ GitHub stars and a Linux Foundation AAIF founding project. Designed for terminal-based workflows with deep tool integration, making it a strong open-source option for developers who want agent-assisted coding without vendor lock-in.

Minimal terminal coding harness

Pi Coding Agent is an MIT-licensed Node.js CLI from earendil-works for building and running coding agents in a local terminal. The current package describes a read/bash/edit/write toolset and session management, while the repo positions Pi as a unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, and coding-agent CLI. It is best framed as a lean, self-extensible BYO-model toolkit rather than a managed IDE.

Open-source terminal AI agent by Alibaba

Apache-2.0 terminal coding agent with Qwen, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, third-party, and local-model support. Qwen OAuth free access ended on April 15, 2026; use Alibaba ModelStudio, a provider API key, or a self-hosted endpoint.

Open-source AI coding agent for the terminal

Open-source terminal-based AI coding agent built in Go by the SST team, with a rich TUI (Bubble Tea) supporting 75+ model providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Groq, and OpenRouter. Features vim-like editing, persistent SQLite sessions, and LSP integration for 40+ languages. Fully free with no vendor lock-in, it has rapidly grown to 95k+ GitHub stars.

Open-source agentic development environment for parallel AI agents

Emdash is an open-source agentic development environment for orchestrating many coding agents in parallel. It runs each agent in an isolated Git worktree, presents tasks in a dashboard, auto-detects installed CLIs, works with 25+ agents including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Amp and Gemini, and supports MCP server connections for tool access.

Enterprise-grade AI coding agent system by Factory

System of specialized AI Droids — Code, Knowledge, Reliability, and Product — each optimized for specific development tasks. Ranked #1 on Terminal-Bench with 58.75% score. BYOK model with support for Anthropic and OpenAI models. Enterprise-focused approach that treats AI coding as a team of specialized agents rather than a single general-purpose assistant.

Open-source agentic engineering platform

Open-source agentic AI coding platform for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, CLI, Slack, and Cloud that combines inline autocomplete, browser automation, automated refactoring, and custom planning/coding/debugging modes. Operates on a plan-act-observe-fix loop with 500+ model support (Gemini, Claude, GPT via OpenRouter). Memory Bank feature maintains repo-resident context across sessions, and codebase indexing keeps the agent grounded in your project.

GitHub Copilot in your terminal

Brings GitHub Copilot to the terminal, giving developers AI assistance for shell commands, error explanations, and code generation directly from the command line. Supports natural language queries to generate complex shell commands, explains error messages in plain English, and integrates with the broader GitHub Copilot ecosystem including model selection and premium request management.

Spec-driven agentic IDE and CLI by AWS

Spec-driven agentic AI IDE from AWS, built on Code OSS (the VS Code foundation), that transforms ad-hoc prompting into a structured workflow by auto-generating requirements documents, design specs, and implementation plans before writing code. Kiro keeps AI-written code tied to explicit acceptance criteria defined up front.

MIT-licensed autonomous coding-agent reference, now superseded for many new uses by mini-swe-agent.

SWE-agent is an MIT-licensed autonomous coding-agent reference from Princeton and Stanford researchers that takes GitHub issues and attempts fixes with a bring-your-own language model. Its agent-computer interface remains foundational for repository navigation, editing, and test execution. The README now says development has shifted to mini-swe-agent, which supersedes SWE-agent and is generally recommended going forward.

Multi-agent CLI pair programmer with FORGE, MUSE, and SAGE agents

Model-agnostic terminal coding tool with 3 specialized agents: FORGE for code editing, MUSE for planning and review, and SAGE for research. Connects to hundreds of LLM providers and models with local-first privacy and conversational Git integration. Apache 2.0 licensed. A thoughtfully designed multi-agent approach that separates concerns between coding, thinking, and information gathering for more reliable results.

AWS AI assistant for terminal and code

Amazon Q Developer CLI is an agentic AI assistant from AWS that enhances the terminal experience with deep AWS integration, code generation, and natural-language command translation. Completes multi-step development tasks, troubleshoots AWS services, writes infrastructure code, and handles documentation lookups directly from the shell. Included with AWS accounts and integrates with existing AWS credentials.

Natural language interface for running code on your computer

Open Interpreter is an open-source natural-language interface for computers. It runs Python, JavaScript, shell commands, and other code locally through a ChatGPT-like terminal workflow, with user approval before execution. It can use hosted providers or local models, but its main tradeoff is safety: approved commands can access local files, apps, and system resources.

All-in-one LLM CLI tool with shell assistant, RAG, and function calling

All-in-one LLM CLI written in Rust that gives unified access to 20+ AI providers (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, Mistral, DeepSeek, and more) through one terminal interface. Includes a shell assistant, interactive REPL with session management, RAG over local files and URLs, custom roles, function calling, and a built-in HTTP server exposing Chat Completions, Embeddings, and Rerank APIs plus an LLM Playground and Arena for model comparison.

Terminal session manager and command center for AI coding agents

Productivity dashboard for managing AI agents, tasks, and workflows through a unified web and mobile interface. Centralizes monitoring, organization, and coordination of multiple AI-powered workflows so developers and teams can keep track of agent activity, task assignments, and project status in one place. Cross-platform access, categorization and prioritization tools, and progress tracking reduce the cognitive overhead of juggling multiple agent tools.

Codebase-aware agentic CLI by Augment Code

Terminal coding agent with deep codebase understanding powered by Augment's context engine. Connects to GitHub, Linear, and Jira via MCP for project-aware assistance. Supports print mode for CI/CD automation, making it useful for both interactive development and automated pipeline tasks where AI-generated code changes need to happen without human intervention.

Autonomous LLM-powered terminal coding agent

Autohand is an AI platform for adaptive continuous engineering and autonomous code evolution, giving teams infrastructure to coordinate multiple AI agents inside sandboxed execution environments. Its open-source Commander tool builds command interfaces that orchestrate multi-agent workflows, while the broader platform lets agents iteratively write, test, and evolve code safely. Aimed at engineering teams pushing beyond simple code generation toward continuous AI-driven software improvement.

Curated directory of terminal-native AI coding agents and orchestration tools

Living directory of 80+ CLI coding agents, orchestration harnesses, and comparison benchmarks. Includes agent managers, parallel runners, and infrastructure tools. Community-maintained reference for the agentic coding ecosystem that helps developers evaluate and choose the right terminal-based AI coding tools from an increasingly crowded and fast-moving landscape.

Making all software agent-native from the CLI

Universal bridge from HKUDS that makes any GUI software accessible to AI coding agents through command-line interfaces. Instead of requiring manual GUI interaction, it exposes application functionality as CLI commands agents can invoke programmatically. Addresses a core challenge in agentic development: most software targets human graphical interaction, but AI agents work best through text-based command interfaces.

Manage multiple AI terminal agents in parallel with isolated Git worktrees

Open-source terminal app for managing multiple AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Aider) in parallel, each in an isolated workspace with its own git branch. Uses tmux for isolated terminal sessions and git worktrees so agents work independently without conflicts. Dashboard view of all active instances, auto-accept mode for background execution, and a review workflow for inspecting changes before merging. Installed via Homebrew as the cs command.

Persistent memory plugin for Claude Code with automatic context injection

Claude-Mem is a persistent memory plugin for Claude Code with 44,000+ GitHub stars that captures session context and injects it into future sessions. It features progressive disclosure with token cost visibility, automatic compression, and privacy controls with private tags to manage what gets remembered across coding sessions.

Multi-agent terminal coding assistant

Codebuff is an open-source AI coding assistant that operates from the terminal, editing your codebase through natural language instructions while understanding project structure, dependencies, and patterns. Uses multi-agent architecture with specialized File Explorer, Planner, and execution agents for precise code modifications across files. Editor-agnostic via terminal-level operation. Supports any OpenRouter model including Claude, GPT, DeepSeek, and Qwen.

Run a team of AI coding agents in parallel on your Mac

Web-based dashboard for monitoring and managing multiple AI coding agent sessions. Provides real-time visibility into what each agent is doing, resource consumption, and task progress across your team. Centralizes agent management so team leads can assign work, review outputs, and track productivity across multiple concurrent AI-assisted development workflows from a single interface.

Open-source IDE for Java and enterprise development

Long-standing open-source IDE primarily for Java development, backed by the Eclipse Foundation. Features powerful Java tooling with refactoring, debugging, JUnit integration, and Maven/Gradle support. Extensible via a massive plugin marketplace covering C/C++, Python, PHP, and web development. Includes built-in Git support, terminal, and XML/JSON editors. Used extensively in enterprise Java, Android (legacy), and embedded systems development. Free and cross-platform.

Meta-prompting and context engineering system for Claude Code agents

GSD is a meta-prompting, context engineering, and spec-driven development system designed for Claude Code and compatible AI coding agents. With over 46,000 GitHub stars, it implements a structured four-phase workflow of Discuss, Plan, Execute, and Verify to combat context rot in long AI coding sessions. The system uses multi-agent orchestration with persistent file-based memory.

Self-hosted MCP gateway for managing multiple servers behind a single endpoint

MCPJungle is a self-hosted gateway that aggregates multiple MCP servers behind a single endpoint. It provides server discovery, health checking, access control, and request routing so AI clients connect to one gateway rather than managing individual server connections. Supports server grouping, authentication, and monitoring dashboards for production MCP deployments.

AI coding assistant with full codebase understanding

Open-source AI coding assistant that runs in your terminal, letting developers chat naturally with an LLM that has full project context. Mentat coordinates multi-file edits across entire codebases — refactoring, feature implementation, bug fixing — with Git integration for review and revert. Requires GPT-4 API access, installs via pip; eliminates copy-paste friction of web AI tools.

Terminal-native coding agent by Mistral AI

Mistral Vibe is a native CLI coding agent from Mistral AI, powered by their Devstral coding model, that runs directly in the terminal with deep project awareness including automatic file structure scanning and Git status integration. Released December 2025 alongside Devstral 2, it features smart @-file references, shell command execution, and conversational workflows. Mistral's entry into the agentic CLI coding market alongside Claude Code and OpenCode.

AI coding agent with hash-anchored edits, LSP, subagents, and browser tools

AI-powered code migration tool that automates framework upgrades, language migrations, and API version transitions. Analyzes your codebase to generate migration plans, then applies changes systematically across affected files. Reduces the risk and effort of major upgrades by handling the tedious, error-prone aspects of codebase-wide transformations that would take developers weeks to complete manually.

Linux Foundation fork of HashiCorp Vault for secrets management

OpenBao is the Linux Foundation's community-driven fork of HashiCorp Vault created after Vault's license change from open-source to BSL. It provides secrets management, encryption as a service, dynamic credentials, and PKI certificate management. Maintains API compatibility with Vault while developing under truly open-source governance with over 5,700 GitHub stars.

Run Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini agents in parallel with isolated branches

Open-source desktop app for orchestrating multiple AI coding agents simultaneously. Auto-creates git worktrees per agent and symlinks shared dependencies to prevent conflicts between parallel tasks. Designed for teams and power users who want to run several AI agents on different features or bugs at the same time, maximizing throughput while keeping each agent's changes cleanly isolated.

Open-source AI coding agent for large projects and real-world tasks

Terminal-based coding engine that breaks complex tasks into subtasks with support for 2M token context windows, diff review sandboxes, and both autonomous and manual modes. Multi-model pipelines work with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. With 15k+ GitHub stars, Plandex is a mature open-source option for developers tackling large, multi-step development tasks from the command line.

DeepSeek-native terminal coding agent with a Go rewrite and MCP support

Reasonix is an open-source terminal coding agent built around DeepSeek workflows, with a newer Go-based 1.0 line, MCP integration, repository-aware code understanding, and BYOK model usage. It fits developers who want a DeepSeek-first CLI agent rather than a Claude- or OpenAI-native workflow.

Agentic AI for software teams by Atlassian

AI-powered coding agent from Atlassian, deeply integrated with Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence so it can validate code changes against acceptance criteria and plan multi-step development workflows aligned with team goals. Achieved 41.98% on SWE-bench full leaderboard at release. Available as both CLI and IDE integration, connecting project management and development within the Atlassian ecosystem.

Rust-powered coding agent and pair programmer by OVH

ShAI (Shell AI) is a CLI that brings natural language to the command line, turning plain English descriptions into executable shell commands tailored to your OS and shell. Offers command generation plus command explanation (paste an unfamiliar command, get a breakdown). Adapts syntax for macOS, Linux, and Windows across bash, zsh, fish, and PowerShell. The OVH shai variant extends further into a full pair-programming coding agent with support for multiple LLM providers.

AI-powered command-line productivity tool

ShellGPT (sgpt) is a command-line productivity tool powered by OpenAI models that generates shell commands, code snippets, and documentation directly in the terminal. Integrates with Bash, Zsh, PowerShell, and CMD; places AI-suggested commands into the terminal input via hotkeys. Supports persistent chat sessions, a REPL mode, and custom Python functions for extending capabilities. Accepts stdin and arguments for pipe-based workflows where command output can be piped to the AI.

Enterprise software composition analysis for supply chain security

Sonatype Lifecycle is an enterprise software composition analysis platform that identifies vulnerabilities, license risks, and quality issues in open-source dependencies throughout the development lifecycle. It integrates with IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, and artifact repositories to block risky components before they enter the codebase. Backed by the largest vulnerability database with proprietary research beyond public CVE data.

Shift-left DAST platform built for CI/CD pipeline integration

StackHawk is a dynamic application security testing platform designed for CI/CD pipeline integration. It tests running web applications and APIs for OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities including SQL injection, XSS, and authentication flaws during the development process. Built on ZAP with a developer-friendly CLI and YAML configuration, it provides actionable findings with reproducer requests and fix guidance.

IDE for the AI Agents Era — run an army of coding agents in parallel

Open-source meta-IDE that orchestrates 10+ AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) in parallel. Uses git worktree isolation to prevent conflicts, with a unified monitoring dashboard and batch diff review. With 7.9k+ GitHub stars, it's the go-to tool for teams that want to scale AI-assisted development across multiple concurrent tasks.

Open-source GUI for managing AI coding agents with your own API keys

Unified desktop interface for Codex and Claude Code with a model selector dropdown. Features a git-integrated sidebar, parallel task and thread management, chat and plan modes, and customizable agent access levels. Run via desktop app or npx for instant access. Brings visual project management to terminal-based AI coding agents without sacrificing their command-line power.

CLI that writes your git commit messages with AI

aicommits is a lightweight CLI tool that generates git commit messages using AI by analyzing your staged changes. Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, and local models via multiple providers. Configure message style, language, and conventional commit format. 8,800+ GitHub stars, MIT licensed. Built by Nutlope (Hassan El Mghari), known for popular open-source AI projects. Install via npm and run 'aicommits' to generate a message from your current diff.