Best Coding AI Tools (2026)

OfficeCLI is the first and best Office suite purpose-built for AI agents to read, edit, and automate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Free, open-source, single binary, no Office installation require

Hi HN,<p>A few years ago I created a popular open source repo for animating children&#x27;s drawings. Recently, I decided to try turning it into a polished user experience.<p>It doesn&#x27;t use ANY g

Show HN: Tessera – an AI agent that refuses to answer without evidence

Hi HN, I&#x27;m Brian, I spent the last few years at Vanta (YC W18), helping startups and enterprises become compliant and I recently started exploring what that might look like in a post-agentic worl

I want to be very upfront: this IDE&#x27;s code is 100% generated by LLMs supervised by me, I am not hiding this fact. This submission was written by a human.<p>microide&#x27;s focus is performance an

Show HN: AgentWatch – per-client cost tracking for LangChain agents

Bitcoin burns computation on meaningless SHA-256; I wanted the burned work to be AI inference, so the network&#x27;s mining base becomes general-purpose AI hardware.<p>There were several issues but I

Aletheia is an open-source attempt to explore what loop engineering looks like when reality has no test suite. It maintains an explicit view of what may be true, chooses each next search for its abili

337 Claude Code skills & agent skills & plugins (30+ Agents, 70+ custom commands, 330+ skills, customizable references, scripts)for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 8 more coding agents — e

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows

AI coding assistant skill (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more). Turn any folder of code, SQL schemas, R scripts, shell scripts, docs, papers, images, or videos into a queryable

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud

6 MCP tools for AI agents: search matches, search players, live scores, match summaries, recent results. No API key, no signup — just npx @vublox&#x2F;agent-tools

Langflow is a powerful tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows.

Together with a friend, we were developing a golf application. Our codebase grew rapidly and became split between multiple repositories: the iOS app, Android app, backend, front-end, and extra tooling

I am building a motion graphics and VFX language specifically for video creation, image effects, and visual composition. Recently, the generative AI field has really inspired me. Besides diffusion mod

I work on agent infra at Featherless. This is MIT and works with any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, not just ours. I kept rebuilding the same loop: call model, run tools, feed results back, stop. Every f

Show HN: Piggy – lazy senior dev mode for AI agents (80–94% less code)

Hey HN,<p>A few months ago, I tried to automate some of my work with the popular AI agent OpenClaw, and then I quickly realized how difficult it is to get it to work with APIs and third-party services

I made a small Erlang library for calling OpenAI and Anthropic from Erlang without third-party dependencies. Includes a simple chat API, basic tool-use support, multimodal message support, and some JS

The CLI and skills that turn any coding assistant into an expert at creating, evaluating, and deploying AI agents on Google Cloud.

Never stop coding. Free AI gateway: one endpoint, 231+ providers (50+ free), connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline & Copilot to FREE Claude/GPT/Gemini. RTK+Caveman stacked compression saves 15-95%

I&#x27;m a solo founder building AMA2, a messaging runtime made for AI agents. This is my first Show HN, so I&#x27;d really appreciate your feedback.<p>What brought me this idea: At first, I was build

AI Agents like Codex and Claude are incredibly powerful and have drastically sped up implementation. However, I noticed a strange side effect: I began to lose confidence in my own coding. I submitted