Tools we cover
Every AI coding tool we cover or plan to cover, with evaluation status. A tool appearing here is not yet an endorsement — it just means we've decided it's worth evaluating (or worth explicitly not evaluating, with the reason).
| Tool | Vendor | CLI? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider | Paul Gauthier (OSS, Apache 2.0) | yes | queued |
| Claude Code | Anthropic | yes | published · read eval |
| Cline | Cline (OSS, Apache 2.0) | no | queued |
| Cursor | Anysphere | yes | queued |
| GitHub Copilot | GitHub / Microsoft | yes | queued |
| Grok Build | xAI | yes | deferred |
| OpenAI Codex CLI | OpenAI | yes | queued |
| OpenCode | opencode.ai (OSS community) | yes | in progress |
| Windsurf | Cognition (formerly Codeium) | no | out of scope |
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