Catalog Catalogs Coding Agents

Coding Agents

IDEs, coding harnesses, the memory they keep and the sandboxes they run in. For developers choosing or building a coding agent.

Agent IDEs and command-line coding harnesses, coding-agent memory and context files, Claude Code memory mechanisms, editor paradigms and the sandboxes agent-written code runs in, compared on licence, hosting, MCP support and lifecycle.

97 systems · 5 sections · 25 acquired, archived, stale or shut down · data as of 2026-10-31

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Most referenced

Lowest tier first, then by how many other systems in the catalog reference each one.

  1. Claude Code (Anthropic) T1 Terminal-native agentic coding harness
  2. Cursor (IDE) T1 Acquired Agentic IDE; Agent Mode + Background Agents (VS Code fork)
  3. OpenAI Codex CLI T1 Deprecated Terminal-native agentic coding harness (OpenAI)
  4. GitHub Copilot (Agent Mode) T1 IDE Copilot extension — chat, completions, Agent Mode
  5. e2b T1 Code-execution sandbox infrastructure for AI agents (firecracker microVMs)
  6. Modal Sandboxes T1 Serverless container runtime + AI-agent sandboxes (Modal Labs)
  7. Zed (Agentic Editing) T1 Native Rust editor with Agentic Editing + Edit Predictions
  8. Devin (Cognition) T1 Server-side Knowledge + auto-Repo Knowledge
  9. OpenHands (All Hands AI) T1 OSS autonomous SWE agent platform (formerly OpenDevin)
  10. Kiro T1 Agentic IDE; spec-driven dev (Requirements → Design → Tasks)
  11. Official MCP Memory server T1 KG-based persistent memory MCP
  12. Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) T1 Acquired Agentic IDE — Cascade Flow + Memories (acquired by OpenAI 2025)

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Lifecycle

  • Active 72
  • Acquired 6
  • Stale 4
  • Inactive 2
  • Deprecated 5
  • Archived 7
  • Shut down 1

Tiers: T1 37 · T2 42 · T3 18 · T4 0 · T5 0

Recently changed

  • Bolt.new (StackBlitz) — harness Lifecycle: pivoted
  • Augment Code Funding / ownership: Acquired by Harness (2026-10-08; select assets incl. Cosmos, Auggie CLI, Context Engine); previously $252M total $977M val Series B · 2024-04
  • Beads (Steve Yegge) Homepage: https://github.com/gastownhall/beads
  • claude-mem Pricing: Open-source engine free (Apache-2.0, local memory); CMEM Pro hosted observation + cloud sync + private MCP recall: Pro $30/mo, Heavy $70/mo, CMEM Max $100/mo (with billed overage), 30-day free trial; TeamBrain team pricing not announced (pilot)
  • Cognition Devin v2 / Spec Mode Homepage: https://cognition.com/
  • Continue.dev .continue/rules Lifecycle: archived
  • Continue.dev Memory MCP Pricing: Discontinued — Continue acquired by Cursor; recurring billing disabled and unused paid credits refunded; Continue Hub (hub.continue.dev) offline
  • Daytona License: Apache-2.0 (SDKs in daytona/clients; CLI under AGPL-3.0); core platform closed-source since June 2026 (archived daytonaio/daytona repo remains AGPL-3.0 at v0.190.0)

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  • JSON · CSV, flattened, one row per system, CC-BY-4.0
  • MCP tools: plan_stack, choose_memory_layer, check_stack, find_alternatives
  • CLI: landscape stack --product coding-agent · landscape check <manifest>
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