🤖 AI Coding Assistants & Autonomous Agents

Curated open-source coding agents and IDE extensions that work directly inside your terminal or VS Code, pairing with local or cloud LLMs.

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1. Aider

AI pair programming in your terminal. Edits code across multiple files in your local git repository.

• Replaces: Cursor ($20/mo) / GitHub Copilot ($10-$19/mo)
• Official Repo: Aider-AI/aider
• License: Apache-2.0
• Best For: Terminal-first autonomous coding, multi-file refactoring, and auto-git commits.

💻 One-Click Install & Run

# Install with pipx or pip
pip install aider-chat

# Launch in any git repository with DeepSeek, Claude, or local Ollama
aider --model deepseek/deepseek-chat
# or with local Ollama
aider --model ollama/llama3.1

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2. Continue

Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. Connect any model (local or cloud).

• Replaces: GitHub Copilot / Supermaven
• Official Repo: continuedev/continue
• License: Apache-2.0
• Best For: Autocomplete and chat sidebar inside VS Code using 100% offline local LLMs (Ollama / LM Studio).

💻 Quick Setup

1. Install from VS Code Marketplace: Search for Continue.
2. Select your provider: Choose Ollama, Anthropic, or OpenAI.

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3. Browser-Use

Make websites accessible for AI agents. Open-source web automation library powered by LLMs.

• Replaces: Expensive web RPA / manual browser automation
• Official Repo: browser-use/browser-use
• License: MIT
• Best For: Automating web tasks (booking tickets, filling forms, researching companies).

💻 Quick Install & Run

pip install browser-use playwright
playwright install

🐍 Copyable Python Snippet

from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
from browser_use import Agent
import asyncio

async def main():
    agent = Agent(
        task="Go to GitHub, search for trending Python AI repositories, and summarize the top 3.",
        llm=ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o"),
    )
    result = await agent.run()
    print(result)

asyncio.run(main())