Agents
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, MCP.
Top 12 terms
Cognition AI's autonomous software engineer agent · browses, writes, and deploys code end-to-end.
Replit's in-browser AI coding agent · turns a prompt into a deployed app without leaving the browser.
OpenAI's computer-use agent · clicks, types, and browses websites on the user's behalf.
Butterfly Effect Inc's autonomous general-purpose agent · went viral March 2025 for multi-step research and web automation.
Open-source VSCode coding agent · forked as Roo Code and Continue, built on user-supplied API keys.
Paul Gauthier's terminal-based git-aware AI pair programmer · commits with context of the whole repo.
Open-source IDE-native coding assistant · inline autocomplete + chat across VSCode and JetBrains.
OpenAI's open-source terminal coding agent · runs GPT models against your repo from the shell.
VSCode coding agent forked from Cline · adds auto-mode, multi-tab orchestration, and Orchestrator agent pattern.
Codeium's VSCode-fork IDE with "Cascade" multi-file agent · acquired by Cognition in 2025.
Zed editor's built-in AI assistant · Rust-native, collaborative, MCP-first.
Self-hosted AI coding assistant · Copilot-style autocomplete you can run on your own GPU.