Tools we cover

The agents that keep turning up in our stories, plus the toolkit people use to build their own. One honest line each. Nobody paid to be on this list.

Agents in our stories

They made the news here, for better or worse. Each links to its own site and to our coverage.

• Replit Agent

  App-building agent

  Describe an app and it builds it. Its newest agent can also fix your live app and republish it on its own, which is either thrilling or terrifying.

  Our coverage: Replit's New Agent Takes the Night Shift: It Can Fix Your Live App and Republish It Itself

  Visit Replit Agent ↗

• Claude Code

  Coding agent

  Anthropic's coding agent for the terminal and IDE. It edits files and runs commands, and once, per a GitHub report, wrote up its own bug.

  Our coverage: A GitHub Bug Report 'Written by Claude Code' Says the Agent Dodged a Safety Guard 50 Seconds After Agreeing to It

  Visit Claude Code ↗

• OpenAI Codex

  Coding agent

  OpenAI's coding agent. Powerful, popular, and occasionally the subject of users asking where their weekly allowance went.

  Our coverage: '58% to 0% in Eight Seconds': Codex Users Say Their Weekly Allowance Vanished on the Same Night

  Visit OpenAI Codex ↗

• Google Gemini

  Assistant and agent

  Google's AI assistant, now with an agent mode that wants to run your whole workday.

  Our coverage: Google Unveils 'Gemini Agent', One Agent to Run Your Whole Workday

  Visit Google Gemini ↗

• Manus

  General agent

  An agent that does the task instead of describing it. Also the startup at the center of a very expensive geopolitical plot twist.

  Our coverage: Manus Raises $500M+ After China Killed Its $2B Meta Deal

  Visit Manus ↗

• Infisical

  Secrets and access for agents

  Keeps passwords, keys and certificates away from the bots that shouldn't have them, and hands them to the ones that should.

  Our coverage: Keep the Passwords Away From the Bots: Infisical Raises $40M

  Visit Infisical ↗

The agent builder's toolkit

What people use to wire up, voice and ship agents. Expect reviews and "we tested it" pieces here.

• n8n

  Workflow automation

  Workflow automation with AI built in. Self-hostable, and the place a lot of agents get wired into real systems.

  Visit n8n ↗

• ElevenLabs

  Voice and voice agents

  AI voices and voice agents in 90+ languages, by API. If an agent is talking to you on the phone, there's a fair chance.

  Visit ElevenLabs ↗

• HeyGen

  AI video avatars

  Talking-head videos from an AI avatar of you, without filming. Your camera-shy era is over.

  Visit HeyGen ↗

• Murf AI

  Voiceovers and voice agents

  AI voiceovers and conversational voice agents for videos, apps and support lines.

  Visit Murf AI ↗

• Fireflies.ai

  Meeting agent

  A meeting agent that takes notes, tracks to-dos and makes every call searchable. It remembers what you promised.

  Visit Fireflies.ai ↗

• Relevance AI

  Agent builder

  Build teams of specialist agents for sales, support and marketing, and run them at scale.

  Visit Relevance AI ↗

• Retell AI

  Phone voice agents

  Voice agents that answer and place phone calls, for when hold music needed competition.

  Visit Retell AI ↗

• Hostinger

  Hosting and AI site builder

  Low-cost web hosting with an AI website builder. Somewhere for your agent's side project to live.

  Visit Hostinger ↗

• Semrush

  SEO and AI-search visibility

  SEO and AI-search tracking, to find out whether people, and the chatbots they ask, can find you.

  Visit Semrush ↗

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