IDE Agents

Agents cover more custom workflows or tasks that can be specifically customized for a given project or repository.

• Roo-Code
  • https://github.com/RooVetGit/Roo-Code
  • 13k stars
• Taskmaster
  • https://www.task-master.dev/

• Evaluating AGENTS.md
  • 2026-02-12
  • Empirical study on whether AGENTS.md context files improve coding agent performance (spoiler: mostly neutral-to-harmful unless minimal and curated)
• Optimizing Coding Agent Rules by Priyan Jindal
  • Optimizing Coding Agent Rules
    • 2025-10-14