AI TOOLS DIRECTORY

Agency Swarm

AI Frameworks

Multi-agent orchestration framework built on the OpenAI Agents SDK. Define agent roles, typed tools, and directional communication flows. Production-focused, open-source.

Aider

AI Coding

Open-source AI pair programming in your terminal. Works with any LLM - Claude, GPT, Gemini, local models. Git-aware editing with automatic commits.

Amazon Q Developer CLI

Productivity

AI-powered terminal assistant from AWS. Natural language chat, command autocompletion, code generation. Agentic mode reads files, runs commands, and calls AWS APIs. Free tier.

Augment Code

AI Coding

AI coding platform built for large, complex codebases. Context Engine indexes 500K+ files across repos with 100ms retrieval. Intent desktop app orchestrates parallel agents.

Bolt

AI Coding

StackBlitz's in-browser AI app builder. Full-stack apps from a prompt - runs Node.js, installs packages, and deploys. No local setup needed.

Cerebras

Infrastructure

Wafer-scale AI inference at 3,000+ tokens/sec. The WSE-3 chip has 4 trillion transistors and 900K AI cores. 20x faster than GPU providers. OpenAI partnership for inference.

ChatGPT

AI Models

OpenAI's flagship. GPT-4o for general use, o3 for reasoning, Codex for coding. 300M+ weekly users. Tasks, agents, web browsing, DALL-E, code interpreter.

Claude

AI Models

Daily Driver

Anthropic's AI. Opus 4.6 for hard problems, Sonnet 4.6 for speed, Haiku 4.5 for cost. 200K context window. Best coding model I've tested. Max plan ($200/mo).

Claude Agent SDK

AI Frameworks

New

Anthropic's Python SDK for building production agent systems. Tool use, guardrails, agent handoffs, and orchestration. Released alongside Claude 4.

Claude Code

AI Coding

Daily Driver

Anthropic's agentic coding CLI. Runs in your terminal, edits files autonomously, spawns sub-agents, and maintains memory across sessions. Powered by Claude Opus 4.

Clerk

Infrastructure

This Site

Drop-in auth for React/Next.js. Pre-built sign-in UI, session management, user profiles, org management. This site uses Clerk for authentication.

Cline

AI Coding

Autonomous coding agent inside VS Code. Creates files, runs commands, uses the browser, and debugs visually. 5M+ installs, 60K GitHub stars. Open-source and free.

Cloudflare

Infrastructure

This Site

CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, and edge computing. Free tier handles most needs. This site uses Cloudflare for DNS and analytics. Workers for edge compute.

Codex CLI

AI Coding

OpenAI's open-source terminal coding agent built in Rust. Runs locally, reads your repo, edits files, and executes commands. Powered by o3 and o4-mini models.

Composio

AI Frameworks

Gives AI agents access to 250+ external tools (GitHub, Slack, Gmail, databases) with managed OAuth. Handles the auth and API complexity so your agent doesn't have to.

Continue.dev

AI Coding

Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. Bring your own model - local or API. Tab autocomplete, chat, inline edit. Fully customizable.

Convex

Infrastructure

This Site

Reactive backend - database, server functions, real-time sync, cron jobs, file storage. All TypeScript. This site's backend (courses, videos, user data) runs on Convex.

CrewAI

AI Frameworks

Multi-agent orchestration framework. Define agents with roles, goals, and tools, then assign them tasks in a crew. Python-based. Great for complex workflows.

Cursor

AI Coding

Essential

AI-native code editor forked from VS Code. Composer mode rewrites multiple files at once. Tab autocomplete predicts your next edit. Pro plan is $20/mo.

DeepSeek

AI Models

Open-source reasoning models from China. DeepSeek-R1 rivals o1 on math and code benchmarks. V3 for general use. Fully open weights. Extremely cost-effective API.

Devin

AI Coding

Cognition Labs' autonomous software engineer. Handles full tasks end-to-end - reads docs, writes code, runs tests, and submits PRs in an isolated sandbox.

Droid

AI Coding

Factory AI's terminal coding agent. Runs Anthropic and OpenAI models in one subscription. Handles full tasks end-to-end - refactors, incident response, migrations.

Gemini

AI Models

Google's frontier model family. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 1M token context and top-tier coding benchmarks. Gemini 3 Pro pushes reasoning further. Free tier via AI Studio.

Gemini CLI

AI Coding

Free

Google's open-source coding CLI. Free tier with Gemini 2.5 Pro. Supports tool use, file editing, shell commands. 1M token context window.

Ghostty

Productivity

Terminal emulator built in Zig with platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. 2ms key-to-screen latency. Metal on macOS, Vulkan/OpenGL on Linux. By the co-founder of HashiCorp.

GitHub Copilot

AI Coding

328K views

The original AI coding assistant. 77M+ developers. Inline completions in VS Code and JetBrains. Copilot Workspace generates full projects from issues. $10/mo.

Glama

MCP Tools

Largest MCP server directory with 17,000+ servers. Security grading (A/B/C/F), compatibility scoring, and install configs. ChatGPT-like UI for browsing and testing.

GPT-5

AI Models

OpenAI's latest flagship model. Major leap in reasoning, coding, and instruction following over GPT-4o. Powers ChatGPT Plus/Pro and the API. Available via API and ChatGPT.

GPT4All

Local AI

Private local AI chatbot by Nomic. 250K+ monthly users, 65K GitHub stars. LocalDocs feature lets you chat with your own files. Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Grok

AI Models

xAI's model with real-time X/Twitter data access. Grok 3 rivals top models on reasoning. Built-in web search and current events awareness. Available via API.

Groq

Infrastructure

LPU-powered inference delivering 500-1,000+ tokens/sec. Purpose-built chip with on-chip SRAM instead of HBM. 5-10x faster than GPU providers. Free tier available.

Haystack

AI Frameworks

Open-source AI orchestration framework by deepset. Modular pipelines for RAG, agents, semantic search, and multimodal apps. Pipeline-as-graph architecture with explicit control.

Instructor

AI Frameworks

Structured data extraction from any LLM using Pydantic models. Automatic retries, validation, and streaming. 3M+ monthly downloads. Available in Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, and Rust.

Jan

Local AI

Open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs 100% offline. Desktop app with local models, cloud API connections, custom assistants, and MCP integration. AGPLv3 licensed.

Kimi Code

AI Coding

Open-source terminal coding agent from Moonshot AI. Powered by Kimi K2.5 (1T params, 32B active). 256K context window. Agent Swarm runs up to 100 parallel sub-agents.

LangChain / LangGraph

AI Frameworks

Most popular LLM framework. 100K+ GitHub stars. Chains, RAG, vector stores, tool use. LangGraph adds stateful multi-agent workflows with cycles and persistence.

Linear

Productivity

Issue tracking built for speed. Keyboard-first, sub-100ms UI. Cycles, roadmaps, GitHub integration. I use it to track all DevDigest engineering work.

Llama

AI Models

Meta's open-source model family. Llama 4 available in Scout (17B active) and Maverick (17B active, 128 experts). Free to use, modify, and deploy commercially.

LlamaIndex

AI Frameworks

LLM data framework for connecting custom data sources to language models. Best-in-class RAG, data connectors, and query engines. Python and TypeScript.

LM Studio

Local AI

Desktop app for discovering, downloading, and running local LLMs. Clean chat UI, OpenAI-compatible API server, and automatic GPU detection. MLX engine optimized for Apple Silicon.

LocalAI

Local AI

Open-source OpenAI API replacement. Runs LLMs, vision, voice, image, and video models on any hardware - no GPU required. 35+ backends. Distributed mode for scaling.

Lovable

AI Coding

68K views

AI app builder - describe what you want, get a deployed full-stack app with React, Supabase, and auth. No coding required. Free tier available.

Mastra

AI Frameworks

TypeScript-first AI agent framework. Workflows, RAG, tool use, evals, and integrations. Built for production Node.js apps. Open-source.

MCP CLI

MCP Tools

Lightweight CLI for discovering and calling MCP servers. Dynamic tool discovery reduces token consumption from 47K to 400 tokens. Three subcommands: info, grep, call.

MCP Hub

MCP Tools

Centralized manager for MCP servers. Connect once to localhost:37373 and access all your servers through a single endpoint. REST API, web UI, and VS Code config compatible.

MCP Inspector

MCP Tools

Visual testing tool for Model Context Protocol servers. Like Postman for MCP - call tools, browse resources, and view real-time logs in a browser UI. Zero install via npx.

Mistral

AI Models

European open-weight models. Mistral Large for complex tasks, Mistral Small for speed, Codestral for code. Strong multilingual support. Open and API options.

Modal

Infrastructure

Serverless cloud for AI/ML workloads. Write Python with decorators, Modal handles GPU provisioning and scaling. 2-4s cold starts. Scales to zero. $30/mo free compute.

Obsidian

Productivity

Daily Use

Local-first markdown knowledge base with wikilinks. My entire DevDigest pipeline lives here - research, scripts, content calendar, daily journal.

Ollama

Local AI

The easiest way to run LLMs locally. One command to pull and run any model. OpenAI-compatible API. 52M+ monthly downloads. Supports GGUF, Safetensors, and custom Modelfiles.

OpenAI Agents SDK

AI Frameworks

Lightweight Python framework for multi-agent systems. Agent handoffs, tool use, guardrails, tracing. Successor to the experimental Swarm project.

OpenAI Codex

AI Coding

216K views

OpenAI's cloud coding agent. Runs in a sandboxed container, reads your repo, executes tasks, and submits PRs. Uses GPT-5.3 (codex model). Available in ChatGPT.

OpenRouter

AI Models

Unified API for 200+ models. One API key, one billing dashboard. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and more. Automatic fallbacks and load balancing.

Outlines

AI Frameworks

Constrained generation library for LLMs. Uses finite state machines to mask invalid tokens during generation. Guarantees schema-compliant output with zero retries.

Pieces for Developers

Productivity

AI-powered context manager that remembers your code, snippets, links, and project context across IDEs, browsers, and terminals. Local-first with 9 months of memory. Free.

Pydantic AI

AI Frameworks

Type-safe Python agent framework from the Pydantic team. Brings the FastAPI feeling to AI development. Composable tools, durable execution, and full IDE autocomplete.

Raycast

Productivity

Keyboard-first Mac launcher with built-in AI. 32+ models, 1,500+ extensions, clipboard history, window management, snippets. Replaced 4 apps in my workflow. Free tier available.

Replicate

Infrastructure

Run 50,000+ ML models with a simple API. No infrastructure management. Pay-per-second billing. Deploy custom models with Cog. Popular for image generation and audio.

Replit Agent

AI Coding

Full-stack AI dev environment in the browser. Describe an app, get a deployed project with database, auth, and hosting. No local setup needed.

Smithery

MCP Tools

Registry and hosting platform for MCP servers. 6,000+ servers indexed. One-command install and configuration via CLI. Supports local and hosted deployments.

Sourcegraph Cody

AI Coding

AI coding assistant with deep codebase context. Indexes your entire repo graph for accurate answers. VS Code and JetBrains extensions. Free tier available.

Supabase

Infrastructure

Open-source Firebase alternative built on Postgres. Auth, real-time subscriptions, storage, edge functions, and pgvector for AI embeddings. Generous free tier.

Together AI

Infrastructure

Fastest inference for open-source models. 200+ models via unified API. Ranks #1 on speed benchmarks for DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and Llama. Serverless pay-per-token pricing.

v0

AI Coding

Vercel's generative UI tool. Describe a component, get production-ready React code with shadcn/ui and Tailwind. Iterate by chatting. Free to try.

Vercel

Infrastructure

This Site

Deployment platform behind Next.js. Git push to deploy. Edge functions, image optimization, analytics. Free tier is generous. This site runs on Vercel.

Vercel AI SDK

AI Frameworks

Essential

The TypeScript toolkit for building AI apps. Unified API across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google. Streaming, tool calling, structured output, multi-step agents. 50K+ GitHub stars.

Warp

Productivity

AI-powered terminal built in Rust with GPU rendering. Block-based output, natural language commands, Agent Mode for autonomous tasks. 700K+ developers. Free tier available.

Windsurf

AI Coding

Codeium's AI-native IDE. Cascade agent mode handles multi-file edits autonomously. Free tier with generous limits. Strong alternative to Cursor.

Wispr Flow

Productivity

AI voice dictation for macOS. Works in any app - code editors, browsers, notes. Understands context and formats output appropriately. Faster than typing for prose.

Zed

AI Coding

High-performance code editor built in Rust with native AI integration. Sub-millisecond input latency. Built-in assistant supports Claude, GPT, and local models.