Which AI coding tool should you use?

What each tool is good at

The job each one does best, and whether the project is still active.

Google Antigravity

Run Antigravity without leaving Visual Studio Code: Google's own extension puts agent chat, inline diff review and interactive plans into VS Code side panels, and installs a local `agy` backend service the first time you launch it.

IDE · Desktop

Visual Studio Code

Run Anthropic's agent without installing a second product: the Claude harness is enabled by default and bills either through a GitHub Copilot subscription or through your own Anthropic key.

IDE · Desktop

opencode

Explore an unfamiliar codebase before you change it: the built-in plan agent refuses file edits and asks before each bash command.

CLI Tool · Terminal

Claude Code

Plan a change with Opus and execute it with Sonnet inside one session, by setting the model to `opusplan`.

CLI Tool · Terminal

Codex CLI

Point an agent at a repository you do not trust: in the default `workspace-write` mode Codex edits inside the working directory and must ask before touching anything outside it.

CLI Tool · Terminal

GitHub Copilot CLI

Work across code and GitHub state — issues, pull requests, repositories — in one session, because the agent ships with GitHub's MCP server enabled.

CLI Tool · Terminal

mistral-vibe

Refactor with edits applied but shell commands still gated: that is the shipped default, the `accept-edits` agent.

CLI Tool · Terminal

Warp

Keep the CLI agent you already use and change only the terminal: Warp runs Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI beside its own agent.

CLI Tool · Terminal

Claude Task Master

Split a written PRD into ordered tasks before any agent writes code, with `task-master parse-prd your-prd.txt`.

Task Management · Plugin

Crush

Code in a terminal on a platform the other agents skip: Crush ships first-class builds for Android, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD as well as macOS, Linux and Windows.

CLI Tool · Terminal

Goose

Automate work that is not coding — research, writing, data analysis — on the same machine and the same agent, through the desktop app, the CLI or the API.

CLI Tool · Terminal