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.

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.

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.

AI coding agent that can run commands, browse the web, call APIs

Glamorous command-line interface

Self-improving CLI agent