Skills are only half the story — you run them somewhere. These are the CLIs, editors, and apps that consume agent skills and talk to MCP servers. Pick your surface, then fill it from the skills catalog and the MCP catalog.
Links go to official sites where verified; otherwise to the agent's page on skills.sh.
Anthropic's agentic coding tool that works inside your terminal, reading code and carrying out multi-step tasks.
Official site claude.ai ↗OpenAI's coding agent for delegating software tasks. It works in the terminal and the cloud, reading code and proposing changes.
Official site openai.com ↗Google's terminal-based coding agent connected to Gemini models. It reads your codebase and drafts changes from the command line.
Official site gemini.google.com ↗A coding agent and development environment that runs in the terminal and keeps working remotely after you close your laptop.
Official site ampcode.com ↗An open-source AI agent that runs locally on your machine and carries out tasks across your files and tools.
Agent page skills.sh ↗An open-source coding agent for the terminal, desktop, and IDE. It works with many model providers and loads context per project.
Official site opencode.ai ↗The terminal front-end of AWS's agentic coding environment. It turns prompts into specs, then implements them with parallel agents.
Official site kiro.dev ↗The command-line agent of Factory's software development platform. It takes on defined engineering tasks across the terminal and CI.
Official site factory.ai ↗An AI-first code editor with agents that plan, edit, and review alongside you. It also runs in the terminal and the cloud.
Official site cursor.com ↗An agentic code editor, now continuing as Devin Desktop. It manages local and cloud agents from one surface.
Official site windsurf.com ↗Google's agent-first development platform, spanning an IDE, a terminal CLI, and editor extensions. Agents work in parallel across projects.
Official site antigravity.google ↗An AI-native development environment with a coding assistant and a general work assistant. Built for shipping software faster.
Official site trae.ai ↗The widely used open-source code editor, now with multi-agent development built in. Agents, extensions, and MCP servers extend it further.
Official site code.visualstudio.com ↗A minimal, extremely fast code editor with agentic editing built in. It hosts many agents side by side and connects to MCP servers.
Official site zed.dev ↗GitHub's AI coding assistant, working inside editors, the terminal, and GitHub itself. It suggests code and now delegates to agents.
Official site github.com ↗An open-source coding agent for the editor, terminal, and desktop. It works with any model and extends via MCP.
Official site cline.bot ↗An open-source coding agent for the IDE, terminal, and cloud. It offers many models with usage-based pricing and team controls.
Official site kilocode.ai ↗A coding assistant from the Roo team, spanning the editor and self-hosted cloud agents. It grew out of an editor-first workflow.
Official site roocode.com ↗An independent open-source AI lab behind open models and Hermes Agent. Its agent learns from experience and builds skills as it works.
Official site nousresearch.com ↗An open-source personal assistant you run on your own machine. You talk to it from chat apps and it acts across files, mail, and calendar.
Official site openclaw.ai ↗