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Free, open-source MCP server and CLI that gives your coding agent a queryable local code graph before it edits.

Open-source MCP server that gives coding agents live Chrome DevTools access for debugging, automation, and performance traces.

Devin Desktop is a free AI coding assistant and agent IDE with unlimited Tab completions and an Agent Command Center for fleets of local

Open-source MCP plugin that keeps raw tool output out of your AI coding agent's context window—free, local, ELv2.

CodeHealth MCP Server is a local quality gate that makes AI coding assistants fix maintainability issues before you approve the code.

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

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) is an agent-native IDE for running fleets of local and cloud coding agents from one Sessions board.

Junie is JetBrains' AI coding agent — terminal, IDE, GitHub, or GitLab — running on any model you bring, with zero-markup BYOK and a local Mac build.

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) is an agent-centric IDE for running fleets of local and cloud coding agents from one Sessions Board.

Open-source coding agent that reads your repo, edits files, and runs terminal commands across VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, and a desktop app.

Open Design turns the coding agent you already run into a local-first design engine for prototypes, slides, and HTML video

Pi Coding Agent is a free, MIT-licensed terminal coding agent harness you shape to your own workflow with TypeScript extensions, skills, prompts, and themes.

Z.ai is a free browser-based AI assistant for presentations, writing, and agentic coding, running on the GLM model series.

Open-source MCP server that lets a coding agent write Python CAD scripts, render them, and export STEP, STL, GLB, or OBJ parts.

Ponytail is a free, MIT-licensed ruleset that makes AI coding agents write the least code that works.

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf Editor) is an IDE built around running fleets of local and cloud coding agents from one surface.

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

Godot-MCP wires any MCP-capable AI client into the Godot 4.x editor through 94 open-source tools, free and local-first.

Vectoralix hosts managed MCP servers that turn your docs, files, and Git repos into secured, versioned endpoints for AI assistants.

A local MCP context layer that filters what your coding agent sees, cutting token use before requests leave your machine.

Free browser-based tool for inspecting and testing MCP servers over stdio or SSE.

AutoDocs (Sita) auto-generates and maintains dependency-aware code documentation and feeds AI coding agents the exact context they need.

Free MCP server that turns any public GitHub repo or GitHub Pages site into AI-readable context by swapping github.com for gitmcp.io.

Local-first code knowledge graph with 25 MCP tools that give your AI assistant ranked symbols and persistent memory instead of raw grep dumps.

Kasetto is a Rust CLI that syncs skills, commands, MCP servers, and instructions to 23 AI coding agents from one YAML file.

Free open-source CLI that keeps AI coding assistant rules in sync from one Markdown directory

Bito Governor is an AI model router and code context engine that grounds coding agents in your codebase to cut agent spend 40-70%

Open-weight agentic coding models — Laguna XS 2.1 (33B) and Laguna S 2.1 (118B) — built for code that cannot leave your security boundary.

Roo Code is a pre-launch multi-agent AI coding assistant for VS Code, currently collecting email signups on a landing page only

Cosine Genie is a sovereign coding agent that writes production-grade code with Lumen models post-trained on real engineering code.