Coding agents
Agents that write, run and fix code: real autonomy, orchestration of several agents, permissions granted, and measured effects on software teams.
Articles
Market
Microsoft and Google earnings: Azure grows 48%, Google Cloud doubles as AI spending climbs
Azure grew 48% and Google Cloud 103% last quarter as AI capex kept rising. Plus Clover-35B, an open diffusion model, and OpenCode, Zed and Cline updates.
Agents
GitHub Agent Merge: can Copilot fix your pull requests while you work?
GitHub's Agent Merge can watch a pull request for failed Actions workflows and merge conflicts. Here's how it works, what it costs, and its limits.
Developer tools
Android Studio Rabbit 2: Codex, Claude and more AI agents join the IDE
Android Studio Rabbit 2 is stable with support for third-party AI agents, skills management, LeakCanary improvements and XR emulators.
Agents
GitHub Copilot Fusion picks models for you: better coding for less?
Copilot Fusion selects and combines AI models. Its benchmark score, cost per task, limitations and what GitHub credits mean for developers.
Agents
OpenAI and ServiceNow bring ChatGPT closer to enterprise workflows
OpenAI and ServiceNow expand their partnership: a ChatGPT plugin is available, while Codex integration and security tools are planned for 2027.
Market
Oracle opens its cloud to Google TPUs, Meta plans $95B of stock for AI: the October 28 roundup
Oracle will offer Google TPUs in 2027, Meta plans $95B of stock sales for AI, Google ships a CLI for coding agents and Liquid AI releases LFM3.
Models
Anthropic files to go public, OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra: the October 27 roundup
Anthropic publishes its S-1 ($16.3B of first-half revenue), OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Terra at $1/$5 and two deals finance $103B of AI chips.
Coding agents
Anthropic makes the case for a single agent, Nanbeige4.3-33B, Cline Desktop 0.0.49: the October 26 roundup
Anthropic backs a single agent over subagents, Nanbeige ships an open 33B model, Cline Desktop shows diffs and late data centers now cost $5M a day.
Coding agents
OpenAI wins Anthropic customers on price, Block's Dessa, AWS Infinity, Ollama speaks: the October 25 roundup
OpenAI lures Replit and Rippling with discounts, Block unveils Dessa, AWS open-sources the Infinity runtime, Ollama speaks and Qwen Code reaches 0.26.1.
Coding agents
Cursor Computer Use, unified Claude Enterprise, OpenAI trains offline, Agensh: the October 25 roundup
Cursor agents now drive desktop apps, Claude Enterprise merges chat and Cowork, OpenAI trains with no internet access and Microsoft open-sources Agensh.
Models
Kimi K3.1 Pro, Codex CLI 0.164, Copilot in Teams, Replit: the October 24 roundup
Moonshot ships Kimi K3.1 Pro (1M tokens, weights promised by Nov 4), Codex CLI 0.164 adds presets, Copilot lands in Teams and Replit adds agent skills.
Coding agents
Agent Skills moves to the Linux Foundation: Anthropic hands its standard to the AAIF
Anthropic donates Agent Skills, the SKILL.md format adopted by more than 70 agent platforms, to the Agentic AI Foundation. Open Responses (OpenAI), OpenEnv (Hugging Face) and OpenSandbox (Alibaba) join the foundation too, which now hosts 10 projects.
Coding agents
Flint runs locally, Replit Monitoring Agent, Google's EGM plugin, Claude on Google Cloud: the October 23 roundup
Recursive ships Flint, a local coding model under Apache 2.0, Replit launches an on-call agent, Google opens its EGM plugin, Claude goes Anthropic-managed.
Coding agents
Claude Duet: Anthropic's proactive agent, for US subscribers only for now
Anthropic opens a preview of Claude Duet, a Claude Opus 5.5 agent that works in the background on its own cloud computer and asks for approval before acting. Limited to Pro and Max subscribers in the US.
Coding agents
Claude Duet, OpenAI Dots or Grok Bot: comparing the always-on agents
Three agents that work in the background on a cloud computer, compared on vendor, model, connectors, safeguards, price and availability in France, from a developer's point of view.
Coding agents
VS Code 1.143, GPT-6 on Google Cloud, NVIDIA DSX POD: the October 22 roundup
VS Code 1.143 pits several models against one task, Google Cloud adds GPT-6 to Model Garden and NVIDIA promises AI factories set up in 14 days.
Coding agents
Scope, DeepInfer, Humming: tooling for agents and inference goes open source
From Oct 19 to 21, Microsoft, Vercel, DeepSeek and vLLM open-sourced building blocks to test coding agents, resume them after a crash and serve models.
GitHub repos
Open-source coding agents on GitHub: OpenCode, Cline, OpenHands, Aider
OpenCode, Cline, OpenHands and Aider: what each open-source coding agent does, its licence, its stars and its GitHub activity, with figures checked on October 20, 2026.
GitHub repos
The most-starred AI GitHub repositories among developers (October 2026)
OpenCode passes 218,000 stars and leads our ranking of 20 AI repositories for developers; coding agents account for 40% of all stars (GitHub API, October 20, 2026).
Practical guides
Choosing a coding agent by budget: free, $20 a month or enterprise
What Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Devin Desktop, Junie, Zed, Qoder, OpenCode, Cline and Aider offer at $0, around $20 a month and on team plans, according to their pricing pages.
Practical guides
How to install and get started with Claude Code: a step-by-step guide
Requirements, installation on macOS, Linux and Windows, first session, plans and VS Code or JetBrains integration: Claude Code according to Anthropic's official documentation.
Practical guides
Moving from Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI: installation and migration
Since June 18, 2026, Gemini CLI no longer serves free, Google AI Pro and AI Ultra accounts. Who is affected, how to install Antigravity CLI and migrate skills, extensions and MCP servers.
Practical guides
How to run a coding model locally with Ollama
Install Ollama on macOS, Linux or Windows, pick a model suited to code, set the context window and connect OpenCode or Cline, according to the official documentation.
Practical guides
How to set up an MCP server in Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code
What the Model Context Protocol is, how to add a server to Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code, the reference servers and the security rules, according to the official documentation.
Models
COBOL, Fortran: OpenAI pitches AI for legacy migration
OpenAI reports 86.6% successful COBOL migrations with GPT-6.1 Sol, up from 5.4%. We look at the tests, the real prices and the limits.
Coding agents
Week of October 12: coding agents go team-mode
OpenCode, Codex CLI and Claude Code shipped multi-agent updates between Oct 11 and 16, after VS Code, while Meta unveiled a huge coding model.
Surveys
Stack Overflow 2026: agents in, production off-limits
Stack Overflow's 2026 survey: 66% of developers using agents cite Claude Code, yet only 19.9% of respondents already use AI for production work.
Security
AI-generated code: a known flaw in 45% of tasks
Veracode's 2025 GenAI Code Security Report and a METR study are reminders that speed is not enough without a change in method.
Coding agents
Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for coding agents
Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for coding agents names Anthropic, Cursor, GitHub and OpenAI Leaders, and expects the IDE to become optional for most teams.
Tools
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Coding agents
Claude Code
Anthropic
Pricing : PaidLicense : Proprietary
Terminal-first (CLI) coding agent. Named a Leader by Gartner (May 2026); used by 66% of developers who use agents, per Stack Overflow 2026.
- CLI
- MCP
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Coding agents
Codex
OpenAI
Pricing : FreemiumLicense : Codex CLI under Apache-2.0
OpenAI's coding agent, used by more than 4 million people every week according to OpenAI (April 2026). Named a Leader by Gartner.
- CLI
- Cloud
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Coding agents
GitHub Copilot
GitHub
Pricing : Freemium
Assistant and agent built into GitHub: 4.7M paid subscribers (+75% year over year) per Microsoft (January 2026 earnings). Used by 59% of agent users (Stack Overflow 2026).
- IDE
- Enterprise
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Review & quality
Sonar (with Gitar)
Sonar
Pricing : FreemiumLicense : Open source
Code verification; Sonar acquired Gitar in 2026 to add AI code review.
- Review
- Security
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Coding agents
OpenCode 2.0
OpenCode (open source)
Pricing : FreeLicense : MIT
Open-source coding agent for the terminal and desktop. V2 (2.0.0 on npm, Sept 11, 2026) adds a background service and a Code Mode; OpenCode 1.19.0 (Oct 11) offers the upgrade (source: OpenCode changelog).
- CLI
- Open source
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Coding agents
Aider
Aider (open source)
Pricing : FreeLicense : Apache-2.0
Pair programming with an LLM in the terminal: repository map, automatic Git commits, 100+ languages. Apache-2.0 project; latest published release: v0.86.0 (Aug 9, 2025).
- CLI
- Open source
- Git
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Coding agents
Cline
Cline Bot Inc.
Pricing : FreeLicense : Apache-2.0
Open-source (Apache-2.0) coding agent available as a VS Code extension, CLI, SDK and desktop app. Free for individual developers: you only pay for inference, with your own keys or the Cline provider.
- IDE
- CLI
- Open source
- MCP
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Review & quality
CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit Inc.
Pricing : Freemium
AI code review on pull requests, in the CLI, the IDE and agent loops. Free for public repositories; paid plans from $24 to $72 per developer per month billed annually (source: coderabbit.ai/pricing).
- Review
- Security
- MCP
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Coding agents
Junie
JetBrains
Pricing : FreemiumLicense : Proprietary
JetBrains' coding agent, available in the terminal (CLI), in JetBrains IDEs, as a GitHub Action and in GitLab CI/CD, with the model of your choice (10+ models via BYOK). Junie Lite is free; JetBrains AI Pro costs $8.33 and AI Ultimate $25 per user per month billed annually (source: jetbrains.com/junie).
- CLI
- IDE
- MCP