Best AI tools for cli tools

The agentic development environment, from the terminal up

Terminal-based AI pair programmer that writes commits.

Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads, edits, and ships code from the terminal, IDE, or web.

Packs an entire codebase into a single AI-friendly file so LLMs can actually read your repo.

Native macOS LLM inference server built on MLX, with paged SSD KV caching for Apple Silicon agents.

Open-source terminal coding agent with LSP, DAP, subagents, and a native Rust execution engine.

Serverless GPU infrastructure for AI workloads with sub-second cold starts and bring-your-own-cloud support.

A CLI and Python library for running prompts against any LLM provider and logging everything to SQLite.

The de facto runtime for running open-weights LLMs locally, now with a paid cloud tier for bigger models.

Custom-silicon LPU inference platform serving open models at GPU-trouncing latency via an OpenAI-compatible API.

AI-native platform engineering engine that provisions and manages cloud infrastructure from natural-language prompts.

AWS's in-IDE coding assistant and agent, formerly CodeWhisperer, tuned for cloud-heavy workflows.

A query language for LLMs that bolts types, templates, and constraints onto prompting.

Open-source AI coding agent that runs in your terminal, IDE, or desktop and talks to 75+ LLM providers.

Natural-language CLI for managing, troubleshooting, and fixing AWS infrastructure.

DeepSeek-native terminal coding agent built around byte-stable prefix caching for cheap long sessions.

iOS command center for SSH, tmux, and AI coding agents

Glamourous agentic coding for your terminal

Open-source, model-agnostic terminal coding agent