Solo builder
Shipping a product on your own. Your stack stays light: a coding agent to write with, and a framework for when you build agents in. 44 tools.
The shape of a stack that fits this role. Open one for the full diagram, the tools that fill it, and a worked example.
Write code with AI
Full stack & case study →I want an AI that writes and edits code with me.
flowchart LR
code(("Your code"))
agent["Coding agent"]
model["The model"]
herd["Run several at once"]
agent -->|reads and edits| code
agent -->|sends prompts to| model
herd -->|runs| agent Build my own agent
Full stack & case study →I want to put an AI agent into my app.
flowchart LR
app(("Your application"))
framework["Agent framework"]
model["The model"]
observe["See what it does"]
app -->|calls| framework
framework -->|sends prompts to| model
framework -->|emits traces to| observe Aider
AI pair programming in your terminal, git-native.
Augment Code
A context engine for large enterprise codebases.
Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic CLI coding assistant.
Cline
Autonomous coding agent inside VS Code, with approval gates.
Continue
Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains.
Cursor
The AI-first code editor built on VS Code.
Devin
Cognition's autonomous software engineer.
Gemini CLI
Google's open-source terminal agent for Gemini.
GitHub Copilot
GitHub's AI pair programmer across editor and CLI.
Goose
Block's open-source local AI agent.
Hermes Agent
The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research.
Kilo Code
Open-source coding agent consolidating Cline and Roo.
Open Interpreter
Let an LLM run code on your machine.
OpenAI Codex
OpenAI's open-source agentic coding CLI.
OpenCode
A model-agnostic, local-first coding agent TUI.
OpenCode Autolearn
Self-improvement engine for OpenCode agents.
OpenHands
Open-source autonomous software engineer (formerly OpenDevin).
Pi
A minimal, extensible terminal coding-agent harness.
Replit Agent
Build and ship apps conversationally on Replit.
Roo Code
A community fork of Cline with extra modes.
Tabby
Self-hosted AI coding assistant for teams.
Void
An open-source Cursor alternative.
Windsurf
Codeium's AI-native IDE (Cascade agent).
Zed (AI)
The high-performance editor with built-in AI.
Agno
A high-performance multi-agent framework and runtime (formerly Phidata).
AutoGen
Microsoft's framework for multi-agent conversations.
AWS Strands Agents
AWS's model-driven, open-source agent SDK.
Cloudflare Agents SDK
Stateful agents on Cloudflare Workers.
CrewAI
Role-playing multi-agent crews.
DSPy
Declarative, programmable prompt programming from Stanford.
Google Agent Development Kit
Google's code-first toolkit for production agents.
Haystack (deepset)
Production-grade RAG and agent pipelines from deepset.
LangChain
The broad framework for LLM applications and agents.
LangGraph
Graph-based agent orchestration from LangChain.
Letta
Stateful agents with long-term memory (formerly MemGPT).
LlamaIndex
The data framework for LLM applications.
Mastra
The TypeScript-first agent framework.
OpenAI Agents SDK
OpenAI's lightweight agents SDK (Swarm successor).
PocketFlow
A 100-line minimalist LLM framework, agentic-coding friendly.
Pydantic AI
Type-safe agent framework from the Pydantic team.
Semantic Kernel
Microsoft's SDK for enterprise AI orchestration.
Smolagents
Hugging Face's minimalist code-writing agents.
Vercel AI SDK
The TypeScript toolkit for building AI apps and agents.