Best clients for developer tools.
65 clients in Developer tools. The top 20 are ranked by public GitHub stars, collected October 5, 2026; the rest are listed below them. Coding agents, IDE integrations, repositories, CI and the tooling that surrounds them.
| # | Listing | Category | Stars | Forks | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Visual Studio Code Code editor with agent chat that can discover and invoke tools supplied by configured MCP servers. | Developer tools | 193.5k | 44.4k | Oct 5, 2026 |
| 2 | Codex CLI OpenAI coding agent for the terminal with configurable MCP servers. | Developer tools | 127.9k | 20k | Oct 5, 2026 |
| 3 | Gemini CLI Open source terminal agent from Google that uses Gemini models and MCP servers. | Developer tools | 107.2k | 14.7k | Oct 3, 2026 |
| 4 | Zed Collaborative code editor with agents and support for adding MCP servers through extensions or direct configuration. | Developer tools | 91.3k | 10.9k | Oct 5, 2026 |
| 5 | Cline Open-source coding agent available as an IDE extension, CLI, and SDK, with MCP support for external tools. | Developer tools | 69.9k | 7.6k | Oct 5, 2026 |
| 6 | AutoGen Microsoft's multi-agent framework. McpWorkbench and mcp_server_tools wrap an MCP server and expose its tools to agents. | Developer tools | 61.3k | 9.3k | Apr 15, 2026 |
| 7 | LlamaIndex Data framework for LLM applications. McpToolSpec and BasicMCPClient connect to MCP servers and convert their tools into LlamaIndex function tools. | Developer tools | 52.4k | 8.3k | Oct 1, 2026 |
| 8 | Agno Framework to build, run and manage agent platforms; agents can access live data and tools from MCP servers alongside built-in toolkits. | Developer tools | 42.6k | 6.1k | Oct 5, 2026 |
| 9 | Continue Open source AI coding assistant for IDEs and terminals with configurable MCP servers. | Developer tools | 36.1k | 5.5k | Oct 5, 2026 |
| 10 | AgentScope Agent framework with agentic tool management over Python tools, MCP servers and skills. | Developer tools | 32.8k | 3.6k | Sep 30, 2026 |
| 11 | smolagents Barebones library for agents that think in code; agents can use tools from any MCP server via ToolCollection.from_mcp. | Developer tools | 29.7k | 3k | Sep 30, 2026 |
| 12 | Crush Terminal-based coding agent from Charm that supports Model Context Protocol servers over stdio, HTTP and SSE transports. | Developer tools | 28.5k | 2.3k | Oct 5, 2026 |
| 13 | Qwen Code Open-source AI coding agent that runs in the terminal, with memory, skills, subagents and MCP server support for external tools. | Developer tools | 28.3k | 3.2k | Oct 5, 2026 |
| 14 | Kilo Code Open source coding agent extension for VS Code and JetBrains with MCP marketplace support. | Developer tools | 27.5k | 3.2k | Oct 4, 2026 |
| 15 | Haystack Open-source AI orchestration framework; its MCP integration connects external tools and services to Haystack pipelines and agents. | Developer tools | 26.6k | 3.2k | Oct 2, 2026 |
| 16 | Theia IDE Open-source, vendor-neutral IDE from the Eclipse Foundation with built-in AI features; its MCP integration lets users configure, start and use MCP servers. | Developer tools | 21.7k | 2.9k | Oct 5, 2026 |
| 17 | CAMEL-AI Open-source multi-agent framework. Its MCPToolkit turns CAMEL agents into MCP clients that use tools from multiple MCP servers. | Developer tools | 17.8k | 2.1k | Sep 30, 2026 |
| 18 | LangChain4j Java library for LLM applications that supports the Model Context Protocol to communicate with MCP-compliant servers that provide and execute tools. | Developer tools | 13.2k | 2.6k | Oct 4, 2026 |
| 19 | Chainlit Python framework for building conversational AI apps; applications connect to MCP servers over SSE, Streamable HTTP or stdio. | Developer tools | 12.5k | 1.8k | Sep 18, 2026 |
| 20 | Kimi CLI Terminal AI agent from Moonshot AI for software development tasks and shell operations; supports MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools. | Developer tools | 11.4k | 1.3k | Sep 22, 2026 |
More clients for developer tools 45
Listed without a public GitHub repository, or not yet collected.
Amazon Q Developer
AWS coding assistant for IDEs and the command line with MCP server support.
Amp
Agentic coding tool from Sourcegraph for editors and the terminal with MCP server support.
Antigravity
Google's agentic development platform. It supports the Model Context Protocol so agents can connect to local developer tools, databases, file parsers and remote APIs.
Augment Code
Context-aware coding agent for editors and CLI that connects to MCP servers.
BeeAI Framework
Framework for building production-ready AI agents in Python and TypeScript, with Model Context Protocol tool support.
Claude Code
Anthropic coding agent for terminal and development workflows, with MCP connections to external tools and data sources.
CodeBuddy
Tencent Cloud's AI code editor and CLI. It supports MCP server configuration to connect external tools and data sources.
CodeCompanion.nvim
AI coding plugin for Neovim with support for the Model Context Protocol so MCP server tools can be used in chat.
Cursor
AI coding environment whose agents can use external tools and data through configured MCP servers.
Dolphin MCP
Python library and CLI that connects to any number of configured MCP servers and makes their tools available to any LLM, local or remote.
Factory Droid
Factory's Droid coding agent for the CLI and IDE. MCP servers extend Droid's capabilities with extra tools and context.
fast-agent
Framework and CLI to code, build and evaluate agents with MCP, ACP and A2A support; connects to MCP servers with the /connect command.
Firebase Studio
Browser-based development environment from Google for building full-stack apps; its AI assistance can connect to MCP servers.
Forge
AI pair programmer for the terminal working with Claude, GPT, Gemini and other models; its MCP feature lets agents communicate with external tools and services.
Gemini Code Assist
Google's AI coding assistant for IDEs. In agent mode, local or remote MCP servers can be configured in the Gemini settings file to add tools.
Gemini in Android Studio
AI assistant built into Google's Android Studio IDE. Its Agent Mode can use any MCP servers the developer has configured as tools.
Genkit
Open-source AI framework from Google. The Genkit MCP plugin consumes MCP tools, prompts and resources as a client via createMcpHost or createMcpClient.
GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot agent mode in editors and on GitHub, extensible with MCP servers.
GitHub Copilot CLI
GitHub Copilot's coding agent for the terminal. It ships with the GitHub MCP server by default and supports custom MCP servers to extend its capabilities.
JetBrains AI Assistant
AI Assistant and Junie in JetBrains IDEs, with MCP server configuration for external tools.
Junie
JetBrains' coding agent for its IDEs and CLI. Junie can be connected to Model Context Protocol servers through mcp.json settings.
Kiro
Agentic IDE from AWS built around specs and hooks, with MCP server configuration.
Koog
JVM (Kotlin and Java) framework for building AI agents; integrates Model Context Protocol tools into agents.
LangChain MCP Adapters
Lightweight wrapper that makes Model Context Protocol tools compatible with LangChain and LangGraph agents.
Questions and answers
What is the most-starred mcp client for developer tools?
Visual Studio Code, with 193,518 public GitHub stars as of October 5, 2026. Code editor with agent chat that can discover and invoke tools supplied by configured MCP servers.
How many clients for developer tools are listed?
65 on RUAGENTIC, 20 of them ranked by stars and 45 listed without a public GitHub repository or without collected metrics.
How is this list ranked?
By public GitHub star count, read hourly from the repository each listing links to, last collected October 5, 2026. Stars measure attention on GitHub, not quality or safety. Listings that share one repository appear once. Sponsorship never changes a rank.
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