Cognition's Acquisition of Windsurf

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  1. claude-code

    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 - all through natural language commands.

    This already exists via MCP

    > For other IDEs: The protocol is editor-agnostic. Any editor that can run a WebSocket server and implement the MCP tools can integrate with Claude Code.

    https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1234

    Example in Emacs, this is how I use claude-code:

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  3. claude-code-ide.el

    Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

  4. awesome-copilot

    Community-contributed instructions, agents, skills, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot.

  5. pal-mcp-server

    The power of Claude Code / GeminiCLI / CodexCLI + [Gemini / OpenAI / OpenRouter / Azure / Grok / Ollama / Custom Model / All Of The Above] working as one.

    I’m unaffiliated, but I’ve really been enjoying this - https://github.com/BeehiveInnovations/zen-mcp-server

    It allows you to have CC shoot out requests to o3, 2.5 pro and more. I was previously bouncing around between different windows to achieve the same thing. With this I can pretty much live in CC with just an editor open to inspect / manually edit files.

  6. rust-downloader

    A simple rust-written downloading program featuring multithreaded concurrent downloads and progress bars

  7. sweep

    Sweep: AI coding assistant for JetBrains

    https://sweep.dev/ is better than Copilot/Windsurf in PyCharm (disclaimer I am one of the founders)

  8. kilocode

    Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.

    Amp Code is also very good, they released about 2 weeks ago their Oracle feature which leverages o3 to do reviews (https://ampcode.com/news/oracle). Amp leans the closer to Claude Code more than other solutions I’ve seen so far, the team there is really leaning into the agentic approach.

    I watch the changes on Kilo Code as well (https://github.com/Kilo-Org/kilocode). Their goal is to merge the best from Cline & Roo Code then sprinkle their own improvements on top.

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