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Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains — now free to fork after the Cursor acquisition.

Crush is a free, open-source agentic coding assistant that runs in your terminal and wires any LLM into your CLI workflow.

Pi Coding Agent is a free, open-source terminal coding agent harness you adapt to your own workflow.

Tessera AI is a planned open-source, evidence-first AI coding agent for JetBrains IDEs, but the product is not downloadable and its domain is listed for sale.

Open-source autonomous AI coding agent that plans, executes, and deploys tasks inside VS Code and JetBrains IDEs.

Open-source coding agent that edits code and runs terminal commands across IDE, CLI, and desktop.

Open-source AI agent for desktop, CLI, and API — automate code, research, and writing with your own LLM keys or subscriptions

Free, open-source AI code assistant plugin for JetBrains IDEs with spec-driven development

Kilo is an open-source AI coding agent with 500+ models and zero inference markup across IDE, CLI, and cloud.

Open-source AI coding agent for terminal, IDE, and desktop — bring any model, including 75+ LLM providers.

Open-source AI coding agent orchestrator with per-task LLM routing across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Ollama.

Ponytail is an open-source ruleset that makes AI coding agents write minimal, pragmatic code.

Open-source spec framework that keeps AI coding agents building the right thing, spec-first.

Free open-source VSCode extension for one-click AI code comments, conversions, and UI-to-code

Open-weight agentic coding models — Laguna XS 2.1 and Laguna S 2.1 — built for secure on-prem and air-gapped enterprise AI.

Open-source dev platform uniting AI, NoCode, Code, and reusable MicroApps.

Context7 feeds your AI coding assistant up-to-date, version-pinned library docs via MCP so it stops hallucinating APIs

Devin Desktop (formerly Codeium) is a free AI coding assistant and multi-agent IDE with unlimited Tab completions and an Agent Command

Free browser-based AI coding IDE with built-in AI assistant for faster development.

Sourcegraph Cody is an AI coding assistant that grounds chat, completions, and agent workflows in your entire multi-repo codebase.

ReadMe is an API documentation platform that turns OpenAPI specs into interactive references, syncs docs with GitHub and GitLab, and uses AI to lint, review,

Phind developer AI search is gone — the cited-answer engine, its extensions, and what to use instead

Open Design turns your coding agent into a local-first AI design engine for prototypes, slides, and HTML video

Open-source agent skills that turn text or image prompts into CAD models, G-code, and robot files.

Kimi Chat is Moonshot AI's agentic AI workspace for coding, deep research, and document generation.

FanBox is a free macOS terminal plus live diff cockpit for vibe coding with agent orchestration

ClinePass gives Cline users flat-rate access to curated open-weight coding models for $9.99/mo.

Z.ai is a free conversational AI assistant for presentations, writing, and agentic coding with ZCode.

Open-source screenshot to code converter turns mockups, Figma designs, and screen recordings into HTML, React, and Vue.

Open-source AI private assistant with real browser, email, and code execution, self-hosted.