Coding agents & their tools – 9 subcategories
AI coding assistants
AI help writing and changing code
Running many agents at once
Running and watching several coding agents in parallel
Memory for AI agents
Letting an agent remember past sessions and decisions
Apps and remotes for coding agents
Desktop, web, phone and chat apps for driving a coding agent
MCP connectors
Connectors (MCP servers and gateways) that let AI use other apps and data
Sandboxes and guardrails for agents
Keeping agents from doing damage: sandboxes, permission checks and secret masking
AI usage and token meters
Seeing how much of your AI plan or token budget you've used, and spending less
Code maps and search for agents
Giving an agent a map of your codebase so it reads less and finds more
Planning work for coding agents
Turning ideas into specs and task lists an agent can follow
Related categories
AI apps
AI chat apps, AI agents for everyday work, Running AI on your own computer, AI that uses your browser, AI voices and music, Ask AI about your own documents, AI image generation, Transcription, AI companions and characters, AI search
Building with AI
AI model gateways and routers, Watching what AI apps do, Preparing documents for AI search, Frameworks for building agents, AI phone and voice agents, Machine learning platforms, Vector databases