AI coding agents, SDKs and agent tooling
43 listings · 43 scored · data checked Oct 30, 2026
This page lists the agents themselves (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and others), SDKs and frameworks for building agents, and developer tools around them.
Works with: Claude CodeClaude DesktopCursorVS CodeCodexGemini CLIWindsurfGitHub CopilotClineOpenCode

Firecrawl
Agent toolsA web scraping and crawling API (and open-source engine) that turns sites into LLM-ready data.
Claude CodeOpenCode
Gemini CLI
Agent toolsGoogle's open-source AI agent that brings Gemini into the terminal.
Claude CodeCodexGemini CLI
OpenHands
Agent toolsOpenHands: an open-source platform for AI-driven software development.
Claude CodeCodexGemini CLIOpenCode
HyperFrames (HeyGen)
Agent toolsHeyGen's open-source framework that renders HTML, CSS and seekable animations to MP4 video, with agent skills and a Claude Code plugin.
Claude CodeCursorVS CodeCodex+3
Cline
Agent toolsAn autonomous coding agent available as an IDE extension, CLI or SDK.
VS CodeCline
Claude Code Best Practice
Agent toolsReference repository of Claude Code practices for subagents, commands, skills, hooks, MCP, settings and memory, with example implementations.
Claude CodeCursorVS CodeCodex+1
CrewAI
Agent toolsA framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents.
Claude CodeCursorCodexWindsurf
Next AI Draw.io
Agent toolsWeb app, desktop app and MCP server for creating and editing draw.io diagrams by chatting with an AI model; exports .drawio, .png or .svg.
Claude CodeClaude DesktopCursorVS Code+1- TC
Trail-code
Agent toolsTrail-code (formerly graft): local code index and team-learnings layer that gives Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other agents codebase context; optional Trail workspace.
Claude CodeCursorCodexGemini CLI+3 
OpenCode
Agent toolsAn open-source coding agent (formerly sst/opencode).
OpenCode
goose
Agent toolsgoose: an open-source, extensible AI agent that installs, executes, edits and tests code with any LLM.

LangGraph
Agent toolsLangChain's framework for building resilient, stateful agents.

cognee
Agent toolsOpen-source AI memory platform that turns documents and conversations into a searchable knowledge graph for agents.
Claude CodeCursorCodexCline
Graphiti
Agent toolsZep's open-source Python framework for building temporal knowledge graphs as agent memory; the repo also includes an MCP server.
Gemini CLI
FastMCP
Agent toolsA Python framework from Prefect for building MCP servers, clients and interactive apps; a TypeScript counterpart is maintained separately.

mcp-use
Agent toolsTypeScript framework for building, testing and shipping MCP servers and MCP Apps, with a built-in Inspector; made by Manufact, which offers hosted deploys.

Plannotator
Agent toolsLocal, browser-based review surface where you annotate coding-agent plans, specs and code diffs and send the feedback back to the agent via hooks.
Claude CodeVS CodeCodexGemini CLI+2- DE
designlang
Agent toolsdesignlang: CLI that extracts a website's design system into DTCG tokens, Tailwind, Figma variables and more, with an MCP server for coding agents.
Claude CodeCursorVS CodeCodex+1 
MCP Python SDK
Agent toolsThe official Python SDK for the Model Context Protocol, for building MCP servers and clients over stdio, Streamable HTTP and SSE.

SkillSpector
Agent toolsNVIDIA's security scanner for agent skills: static analysis plus optional LLM review for prompt injection, data exfiltration and other risks.
Claude CodeCodexGemini CLIOpenCode
Codex CLI
Agent toolsOpenAI's lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal.
CursorVS CodeCodexWindsurf
MCP for Beginners (Microsoft)
Agent toolsMicrosoft's open-source Model Context Protocol curriculum, with lessons and examples in .NET, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust and Python.
Claude DesktopCursorVS CodeGitHub Copilot+1
GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw)
Agent toolsGitHub CLI extension that compiles Markdown agentic workflows into GitHub Actions, running engines such as Copilot, Claude Code or Codex in sandboxed jobs.
Claude CodeCodexGitHub Copilot
CC Safety Net
Agent toolsHook that blocks destructive Git and file-system commands and access to secrets before a coding agent runs a tool call; per its README, it is not a sandbox.
Claude CodeCursorCodexGemini CLI+2
ccusage
Agent toolsA CLI for analyzing coding-agent token usage and cost from local logs.
Claude CodeCodexGemini CLIGitHub Copilot+1
MCP TypeScript SDK
Agent toolsThe official TypeScript SDK for the Model Context Protocol, for building MCP servers and clients; v2 is the stable line per its README.

Continue
Agent toolsAn open-source coding agent from Continue.
VS Code
Google Workspace CLI (gws)
Agent toolsgws: a CLI for Google Workspace APIs (Drive, Gmail, Calendar and more) with JSON output and agent skills; per its README, not an official Google product.
Gemini CLI
Claude Agent SDK (Python)
Agent toolsThe Python SDK for building agents on top of Claude Code.
Claude Code
memsearch (Zilliz)
Agent toolsSemantic memory for coding agents, kept as Markdown files with a Milvus index; plugins for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and others, plus a CLI and Python API.
Claude CodeCodexOpenCode- HA
Hivemind (Activeloop)
Agent toolsHivemind by Activeloop: cloud-backed shared memory that turns agent session traces into reusable skills across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others.
Claude CodeClaude DesktopCursorCodex 
AGENTS.md
Agent toolsAGENTS.md: a simple, open format for giving coding agents project instructions.

MarkItDown
Agent toolsMicrosoft's Python library and CLI that converts PDF, Office, HTML, images and more to Markdown for LLMs; includes a markitdown-mcp package.

MCP Inspector
Agent toolsA visual testing tool for MCP servers.
Claude Code
Claude Code
Agent toolsAnthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal, IDEs and GitHub.
Claude Code
Claude Code Action
Agent toolsA GitHub Action that runs Claude Code on pull requests and issues.
Claude Code
MCPJam Inspector
Agent toolsTesting and evals platform for MCP servers and apps: playground, OAuth debugger, JSON-RPC traces and CLI. Mostly Apache-2.0; evals code licensed separately.
CursorGitHub Copilot
teamcity-cli
Agent toolsJetBrains' official TeamCity CLI for builds, logs and queues, with agent-skills install support.
Claude CodeCursor
Aider
Agent toolsAI pair programming in your terminal.
Windsurf
Claude Code Ultimate Guide
Agent toolsA Claude Code guide covering workflows, hooks, skills and MCP servers, with templates and a stdio MCP server for querying it; guide licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Claude CodeCursorVS CodeCodex
funes
Agent toolsIndexes past Claude Code, Codex, pi and Hermes sessions into durable searchable memory publishable on Hugging Face Hub.
Claude CodeCodex
SkillEvaluator (NVIDIA)
Agent toolsNVIDIA's framework for evaluating agent skills: static quality checks, overlap detection, synthetic eval data and live runs with and without a skill.

Claude Agent SDK (TypeScript)
Agent toolsThe TypeScript SDK for building agents on top of Claude Code.
Claude Code
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Quick answers
What are the top agent tools right now?
By public-signal score as of Oct 30, 2026: Firecrawl (100), Gemini CLI (100), OpenHands (100). Scores reflect public maintenance, license, docs, adoption and compatibility signals, not a hands-on test.
How many agent tools are listed?
43 listings, 43 of them scored. New listings are added on a rolling basis.
How is the score calculated?
From five public checks: last push, license, documentation, GitHub stars and the agent clients named in the README. See the methodology.