CLI Agents Rankings

Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research that runs persistently with memory across sessions, and builds reusable skills from experience. It comes with 40+ built-in tools, including web search, browser automation, and vision, plus scheduled automations and subagents.

OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that connects to your messaging apps and takes real actions on your behalf, from running commands and browsing the web to managing files and sending emails.

Kilo Code is an open-source AI coding agent that works across VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI to help developers ship code faster with agentic workflows.

There are many coding agents, but this one is yours.

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads your entire codebase, plans and executes changes across files, runs tests, and iterates on failures, all from natural language prompts.

Cline is an open-source AI coding agent that lives inside your IDE, autonomously exploring your codebase, editing files, running terminal commands, and using browser automation.

Powerful command-line AI workflow tool