AI developer tools

Index of AI coding assistants, local LLM tooling, AI app builders, and context tools compared for developers on limited hardware.

11 tools

coding-assistant

An open-source AI coding agent inside VS Code that plans, edits files and runs terminals with your approval at each step.

An open-source VS Code extension for AI chat, code completion and agents, with support for local and hosted models.

Lets language models run code on your computer in a terminal, turning a chat into a local coding and automation agent.

An open-source AI coding agent for the terminal, desktop, and IDE, with free models included or any provider you connect.

A platform for autonomous software-engineering agents that browse, edit and run code, usable from the terminal or a local web UI.

An open-source VS Code agent with modes for code, architecture and questions, working across many model providers.

A self-hosted AI coding assistant with a VS Code extension, backed by an inference server you run yourself.

An open-source VS Code fork built around AI coding, with first-class support for local models served by Ollama and llama.cpp.

A ChatGPT-style desktop app that runs open models locally, with a local API server and the option of hosted providers.

A Gradio web UI for running large language models locally, with model management, chat and API modes.

A node-based interface for diffusion and multimodal image workflows, running locally.