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Baton

🔴Developer

A macOS menu bar app that tracks every Claude Code and Codex session on your machine and tells you which AI coding agent is waiting on you right now.

Bito

🔴Developer

Bito review 2026: AI Code Review Agent for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket plus an IDE assistant — features, real pricing tiers, pros, cons, and fit.

Code Airlock

🔴Developer

A thin CLI wrapper around Docker Sandboxes that runs Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode in a disposable microVM against a clone of your repo, then brings the work back as ordinary git commits for review.

Codegen

🔴Developer

AI developer agent platform for enterprise teams with sandboxed execution, governance controls, and deep workspace integration.

Dash0

🔴Developer

OpenTelemetry-native observability platform with Agent0 AI agents that monitor, diagnose, and resolve production issues autonomously.

Decision Node

MCP
MCP Server
🔴Developer

MCP server that records development decisions as structured JSON, embeds them as vectors, and enables semantic search over past decisions.

DecisionNode itself is free MIT-licensed software with no hosted subscription tier identified. Embeddings require a user-managed Gemini API key: Google lists gemini-embedding-001 as free of charge on the Gemini API free tier, $0.15 per 1M input tokens on paid Standard, and $0.075 per 1M input tokens on paid Batch.View Details →

Desktop Commander MCP

MCP
MCP Server
🟡Low Code

Open-source MCP server that lets AI clients like Claude Desktop search and edit files, run terminal commands, manage processes, and analyze data directly on your computer.

GitHub MCP Server

MCP
MCP Server
🔴Developer

GitHub - github/github-mcp-server: GitHub's official MCP Server · GitHub Skip to content Navigation Menu Toggle navigation Sign in Appearance settings Platform AI CODE CR

Goose

MCP
MCP Client
🔴Developer

Open-source desktop AI agent from Block (formerly Square) that runs locally, edits files, executes shell commands, and natively uses MCP servers as its tool layer.

Free / open source; model costs depend on selected providerView Details →

GreptimeDB

MCP
MCP Server
🔴Developer

Open-source Observability 2.0 database for metrics, logs, and traces with an official MCP server for AI-assisted data querying.

developer-tools tools

Baton

🔴Developer

A macOS menu bar app that tracks every Claude Code and Codex session on your machine and tells you which AI coding agent is waiting on you right now.

Key Features:

    Custom

    Bito

    🔴Developer

    Bito review 2026: AI Code Review Agent for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket plus an IDE assistant — features, real pricing tiers, pros, cons, and fit.

    Key Features:

      Custom

      Code Airlock

      🔴Developer

      A thin CLI wrapper around Docker Sandboxes that runs Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode in a disposable microVM against a clone of your repo, then brings the work back as ordinary git commits for review.

      Key Features:

        Custom

        Codegen

        🔴Developer

        AI developer agent platform for enterprise teams with sandboxed execution, governance controls, and deep workspace integration.

        Key Features:

          Custom

          Dash0

          🔴Developer

          OpenTelemetry-native observability platform with Agent0 AI agents that monitor, diagnose, and resolve production issues autonomously.

          Key Features:

            Custom

            Decision Node

            MCP
            MCP Server
            🔴Developer

            MCP server that records development decisions as structured JSON, embeds them as vectors, and enables semantic search over past decisions.

            Key Features:

            • MCP server for AI coding tools
            • Structured JSON decision records
            • Semantic decision search

            DecisionNode itself is free MIT-licensed software with no hosted subscription tier identified. Embeddings require a user-managed Gemini API key: Google lists gemini-embedding-001 as free of charge on the Gemini API free tier, $0.15 per 1M input tokens on paid Standard, and $0.075 per 1M input tokens on paid Batch.

            Desktop Commander MCP

            MCP
            MCP Server
            🟡Low Code

            Open-source MCP server that lets AI clients like Claude Desktop search and edit files, run terminal commands, manage processes, and analyze data directly on your computer.

            Key Features:

              Custom

              Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code

              Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft AI development toolkit for building, testing, and integrating AI capabilities directly within VS Code.

              Key Features:

              • AI development workflow inside Visual Studio Code
              • Build, test, and integrate AI capabilities from the editor
              • Microsoft Learn documentation page for Windows AI development

              Free

              GitHub MCP Server

              MCP
              MCP Server
              🔴Developer

              GitHub - github/github-mcp-server: GitHub's official MCP Server · GitHub Skip to content Navigation Menu Toggle navigation Sign in Appearance settings Platform AI CODE CR

              Key Features:

                Custom

                Goose

                MCP
                MCP Client
                🔴Developer

                Open-source desktop AI agent from Block (formerly Square) that runs locally, edits files, executes shell commands, and natively uses MCP servers as its tool layer.

                Key Features:

                  Free / open source; model costs depend on selected provider

                  GreptimeDB

                  MCP
                  MCP Server
                  🔴Developer

                  Open-source Observability 2.0 database for metrics, logs, and traces with an official MCP server for AI-assisted data querying.

                  Key Features:

                    Custom

                    Impeccable

                    🟡Low Code

                    Free, open-source design skill for AI coding agents: one /impeccable skill with 23 commands, live browser iteration, and 46 deterministic detector rules that stop AI-generated frontend 'slop' like purple gradients and nested cards.

                    Key Features:

                      Custom

                      Kilo Code

                      MCP
                      MCP Client
                      🔴Developer

                      Open-source VS Code coding agent forked from Cline and Roo Code, with multi-mode workflows, MCP support, and direct access to frontier models without provider markup.

                      Key Features:

                        Custom

                        Kiro

                        🔴Developer

                        agentic development environment and CLI from AWS that emphasizes engineering rigor for AI-assisted software development.

                        Key Features:

                          Custom

                          Mockzilla

                          MCP
                          MCP Server
                          🔴Developer

                          MCP server for API mocking — lets coding agents create mock APIs from OpenAPI specs or single endpoints.

                          Key Features:

                            Custom

                            Model Context Protocol Inspector

                            MCP
                            MCP Client
                            🔴Developer

                            Developer inspection tool for testing, debugging, and validating MCP servers before connecting them to real AI clients.

                            Key Features:

                              Custom

                              OfficeCLI

                              MCP
                              MCP Server
                              🔴Developer

                              Free, open-source command-line Office suite built for AI agents: create, read, edit, and render Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from a single binary with no Microsoft Office installed. Includes a built-in MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and LM Studio.

                              Key Features:

                                Custom

                                OpenAI Codex

                                🔴Developer

                                OpenAI Codex is a coding agent from OpenAI for local CLI work, IDE workflows, cloud tasks, code generation, debugging, and pull-request support.

                                Key Features:

                                • Local Codex CLI coding agent that runs on the developer’s computer
                                • Install options documented for Mac, Linux, Windows, npm, Homebrew, and GitHub release binaries
                                • IDE path for VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf plus a Codex Web path for cloud-based agent work

                                Custom

                                Orca by Stably

                                🔴Developer

                                Free, open-source Agent Development Environment (ADE) that runs multiple CLI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor side-by-side, each in its own isolated git worktree, tracked in one desktop app.

                                Key Features:

                                  Custom

                                  Palma

                                  MCP
                                  MCP Server/Client
                                  🔴Developer

                                  Palma is an MCP governance platform that helps enterprises control, observe, and secure AI agent access to core systems.

                                  Key Features:

                                    Custom

                                    Phrase

                                    Phrase is a paid localization platform for software, product, content, and language teams that need translation management, developer workflows, AI-assisted machine translation, and enterprise localization operations in one system.

                                    Key Features:

                                    • Version control support
                                    • Automated content synchronization
                                    • AI-powered translation assistance

                                    paid

                                    Qodo

                                    MCP
                                    MCP Enterprise Qodo agent tooling
                                    🔴Developer

                                    AI quality-first developer platform (formerly Codium AI) with Qodo Gen for IDE coding, Qodo Merge for PR review, and Qodo Cover for test generation.

                                    Key Features:

                                    • AI-assisted pull request review
                                    • Potential fit for repository-based review workflows, with exact integrations requiring verification
                                    • Security analysis is listed in metadata, and public security claims include SOC 2 Type II certification, two-way encryption, secrets obfuscation, and TLS/SSL secure payment

                                    Developer: $0. Teams: $38/user/month monthly or $30/user/month annually. Enterprise: contact sales.

                                    SearXNG AI Kit

                                    MCP
                                    MCP Server
                                    🔴Developer

                                    A standalone CLI, Python library, and MCP server that packages the SearXNG privacy-respecting metasearch engine — 180+ search engines with AI research features, no server setup needed.

                                    Key Features:

                                      Custom

                                      Sourcegraph Cody

                                      MCP
                                      MCP Code graph context for agents
                                      🔴Developer

                                      Sourcegraph Cody is an enterprise AI coding assistant that uses Sourcegraph code context to help developers search, understand, write, and fix code.

                                      Key Features:

                                      • AI coding assistant for understanding, writing, and fixing code
                                      • Available in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Sourcegraph web app, and CLI
                                      • Developer chat, code completions, code edits, and customizable prompts

                                      Enterprise packaging starts at $16K according to the fetched Sourcegraph pricing page. It includes AI feature credits and scales with team size; final seat, credit, and deployment terms are sales-confirmed.

                                      sqlsure

                                      MCP
                                      MCP Server
                                      🔴Developer

                                      A deterministic semantic checker that catches silently-wrong AI-generated SQL — double-counted joins, summed averages, exposed PII — in 0.1 ms before the query runs, with machine-actionable fixes.

                                      Key Features:

                                        Custom

                                        Stably Orca

                                        🔴Developer

                                        Desktop AI orchestrator by Stably that runs multiple coding agents side-by-side, each in its own isolated git worktree, tracked in one place.

                                        Key Features:

                                          Custom

                                          Token Time

                                          🟢No Code

                                          A macOS menu-bar app that meters every token your AI agents burn and shows full-screen break reminders when usage crosses thresholds you set — Screen Time, but for your AI tokens.

                                          Key Features:

                                            Custom

                                            Trae

                                            MCP
                                            MCP Client
                                            🔴Developer

                                            ByteDance's AI-native IDE that ships an autonomous coding agent ('Builder' mode), repo-aware chat, and free access to frontier models for early users.

                                            Key Features:

                                              Free plan available. Pricing page loader data showed Lite $3/month, Pro $10/month, Pro+ $30/month, and Ultra $100/month, with discounted annualized prices also present; verify billing periods in the live UI.

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