Best AI Coding Agents for Visual Studio Code - Page 2

Traycer transforms your ideas into clear, step-by-step plans that AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor can follow easily. Spend less time writing prompts and complete your projects faster. ✨ Detailed step by step implementation plans ✅ Perfect for large scale code refactoring and feature roll 🛠️ Seamless IDE integration (Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, etc) 🤖 Powered by cutting-edge AI models like Sonnet 4, o3, GPT 4.1 and more 🎁 Free to use forever 🚀 14 day Pro trial, no credit card needed

opencode is the AI coding agent purpose-built for the terminal. It delivers a responsive, themeable terminal UI that feels native while streamlining your workflow. With LSP auto-loading, it ensures the right language servers are always available for accurate, context-aware coding support. Developers can spin up multiple AI agents in parallel sessions on the same project, maximizing productivity. Shareable links make it easy to reference, debug, or collaborate across sessions. Supporting Claude Pro and 75+ LLM providers via Models.dev, opencode gives you full freedom to choose your coding companion.

GPT-5-Codex is a version of GPT-5 further optimized for agentic coding within Codex, focusing on real-world software engineering tasks (building full projects from scratch, adding features & tests, debugging, large-scale refactors, and code reviews). Codex now moves faster, is more reliable, and works better in real-time across your development environments, whether in terminal/CLI, IDE extension, via the web, in GitHub, or even on mobile. GPT-5-Codex is the default model for cloud tasks and code review; developers can also opt to use it locally via Codex CLI or the IDE extension. It dynamically adjusts how much “reasoning time” it spends depending on task complexity; small, well-defined tasks are fast and snappy; more complex ones (refactors, large feature work) get more sustained effort. Code review is stronger; it catches critical bugs before shipping.

Agentforce Vibes introduces vibe coding, a generative AI–powered approach that lets developers convert natural language instructions into production-ready Salesforce applications with enterprise-grade security, governance, and infrastructure. Unlike simpler vibe coding tools aimed at prototyping, Agentforce Vibes supports the full development lifecycle, ideation, building, testing, deployment, and observability, while integrating with Salesforce’s platform and trust layers. It functions as an AI-powered IDE (usable within VS Code or any VS Code-compatible environment) that understands your Salesforce schema and metadata, enabling features such as agentic code generation (Apex, HTML, CSS, JavaScript), intelligent rule enforcement, test case generation, debugging, rollbacks, and natural language DevOps. It supports multiple language models, is extensible via Model Context Protocol (MCP) with over 20 built-in tools, and allows reuse of existing code.

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is the high-capability variant of the GPT-5.1-Codex series designed specifically for software engineering and agentic code workflows. It builds on the base GPT-5.1 architecture with a focus on long-horizon tasks such as full project generation, large-scale refactoring, and autonomous multi-step bug and test management. It introduces adaptive reasoning, meaning the system dynamically allocates more compute for complex problems and less for simpler ones, to improve efficiency and output quality. It also supports tool use (IDE-integrated workflows, version control, CI/CD pipelines) and offers higher fidelity in code review, debugging, and agentic behavior than general-purpose models. Alongside Max, there are lighter variants such as Codex-Mini for cost-sensitive or scale use-cases. The GPT-5.1-Codex family is available in developer previews, including via integrations like GitHub Copilot.

OpenAI Codex is an advanced AI coding tool designed to assist software developers by automating many tasks in their coding workflow. It allows users to delegate tasks such as writing features, answering codebase questions, running tests, and proposing pull requests (PRs) for review. Codex works in parallel, handling multiple tasks simultaneously in secure cloud sandboxes preloaded with your repository. This tool helps developers move through their backlog faster and more efficiently, making it an invaluable asset for teams looking to streamline their development process.

​CodeGuide is an AI-driven platform designed to assist developers in creating comprehensive project documentation for AI coding projects. It streamlines the process by automating the creation of Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), workflows, and prompts, thereby saving time and reducing potential AI hallucinations. Users can start by signing up with their Google account, and then create a new project by describing their idea, core features, and goals. It supports integration with various AI coding tools, including Claude AI, Bolt, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor AI, and Replit. Additionally, CodeGuide offers Starter Kits optimized for coding with preferred AI tools, such as the Starter Kit Lite, a modern web application starter template built with Next.js 14, featuring authentication and database integration. These kits are designed to help users start projects without setup hassles and save tokens. CodeGuide also provides access to Codie, an AI agent powered by Google's Gemini.

NEO is an autonomous machine learning engineer: a multi-agent system that automates the entire ML workflow so that teams can delegate data engineering, model development, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring to an intelligent pipeline without losing visibility or control. It layers advanced multi-step reasoning, memory orchestration, and adaptive inference to tackle complex problems end-to-end, validating and cleaning data, selecting and training models, handling edge-case failures, comparing candidate behaviors, and managing deployments, with human-in-the-loop breakpoints and configurable enablement controls. NEO continuously learns from outcomes, maintains context across experiments, and provides real-time status on readiness, performance, and issues, effectively creating a self-driving ML engineering stack that surfaces insights, resolves standard settlement-style friction (e.g., conflicting configurations or stale artifacts), and frees engineers from repetitive grunt work.

GPT-5-Codex-Mini is a compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex designed to deliver roughly four times more usage with only a slight tradeoff in capability. It’s optimized for handling routine or lighter programming tasks while maintaining reliable output quality. Developers can access it through the CLI and IDE extension by signing in with ChatGPT, with API access coming soon. The system automatically suggests switching to GPT-5-Codex-Mini when users near 90% of their rate limits, helping extend uninterrupted usage. ChatGPT Plus, Business, and Edu users receive 50% higher rate limits, offering more flexibility for frequent workflows. Pro and Enterprise accounts are prioritized for faster processing, ensuring smoother, high-speed performance across larger workloads.