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Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser. Reads the repo, edits files, runs commands, and connects MCP, skills, and hooks.

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15900000DR: 95AS: 94

Spec and context management for AI coding agents. A 4-stage pipeline turns ideas into specs, a mind map and Markdown editor structure them, and a native MCP server lets agents read and write specs directly.

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1000DR: 80AS: 80

Plandex

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Terminal-based AI coding agent designed for large, multi-step tasks. Plans and executes across dozens of files with up to 2M tokens of context, MIT licensed.

#Open Source

1000DR: 80AS: 80

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Claude Code

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