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Tools: Smol Developer
Category: AI assistants and agents
Site: github.com
Smol Developer
The first library to embed a developer agent inside another application, and an influential prototype.
A small experiment that a lot of products grew out of.
What it is sold for
Embedding a coding agent in your own program.
Same shelf
The rest of ai assistants and agents, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
- Generates and hosts WordPress sites, with the build and the hosting sold as one product.
- Agent Shadow Brain did not answerListed as a background analysis agent. The repository returns 404.
- Assigns work to a group of agents and tracks it, treating them as a team roster rather than as one assistant.
- A TypeScript toolkit that puts one interface in front of many model providers, including streaming and tool calls.
- An agent that spends more compute at inference time on harder engineering problems rather than answering immediately.
- Pair programming in the terminal. Reads the repository, proposes edits, and commits them to git with a message.
- Amazon's original completion assistant. The name is retired and the address now serves Amazon Q Developer.
- Amazon's coding assistant, integrated with AWS accounts and services rather than with the editor alone.
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