Awesome AI Tools

An opinionated collection of AI tools, models, and productivity solutions for developers and researchers. Explore the evolving AI landscape – contributions welcome!

Legend:

• ⭐ Author's top pick
• 🆕 New addition
• 🌟 Community favorite
• 💡 Innovative tool

Contents

• Quick Start
• AI Models
• LLM Clients
• AI Back Ends
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• AI Code Assistants
• AI Terminals
• AI IDEs
• AI Git
• AI Web Browsers
• AI Productivity
• AI Image Generation
• AI Research

Quick Start

If you're new to AI tooling and want some simple, easy ways to get your feet wet, I recommend:

• Cursor - an IDE with AI
• Warp - an terminal with AI
• Perplexity - smarter web search
• Claude Desktop + a simple filesystem MCP to get started with MCP
  • Ask Claude "what files are in my downloads folder?" or "write a simple Python script in my Downloads folder"

AI Models

• ⭐ Claude - Talk to Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic.
• OpenAI API - OpenAI's API provides access to GPT-3 and GPT-4 models, which performs a wide variety of natural language tasks, and Codex, which translates natural language to code.
• Llama 2 - The next generation of Meta's open source large language model.

LLM Clients

• ⭐ Claude Code - Terminal integration with Anthropic's Claude models. Supports MCP.
• ⭐ Claude Desktop - Desktop app to interact with Claude, models from Anthropic. Supports MCP
• AnythingLLM - UI with agent integration to communicate with several model providers, supporting cloud and local models.
• ChatGPT - Desktop app to interact with ChatGPT, models from OpenAI.

AI Back Ends

• 💡 Pieces OS - A long-term memory agent that captures your work across IDEs, browsers, applications. Supports local and cloud models.
• Ollama - Run LLMs locally.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

MCP Lists

• Awesome MCP Servers - List of MCP servers.
• MCP.so - List of MCP servers.
• AWS MCP Servers - MCP servers to use cost explorer, search documentation, create diagrams, and interact with services.

MCP Frameworks

• FastMCP - A framework to write your own MCP servers.

MCP Security

• MCP-Scan - Security scanner for MCP servers.

MCP Servers

• ⭐ Filesystem - Interact with your local filesystem.
• ⭐ Terminal Controller - Secure terminal command execution, directory navigation, and file system operations.
• ⭐ Playwright - Interact with Playwright for automating browser actions.
• Fetch - Fetch content from the web. Many apps can do this natively.
• Obsidian - Interact with Obsidian notes.

AI Code Assistants

• ⭐ Cline - Coding assistant with bring-your-own-API-key integrations for most LLMs (very expensive with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, though).
• Roo Code - A fork of Cline.
• Replit Ghostwriter - Meet Ghostwriter, your partner in code.
• Windsurf - Free AI-powered code acceleration toolkit.
• GitHub Copilot - Your AI pair programmer.
• CodeWhisperer - Machine learning-powered coding companion from AWS.

AI Terminals

• ⭐ Warp - A terminal with native AI integration.
• 💡 Butterfish - An AI wrapper for your terminal.

AI IDEs

• ⭐ VSCode - IDE that got a lot better with recent plugins.
  • ⭐ Cline - Coding assistant with bring-your-own-API-key integrations for most LLMs (very expensive with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, though).
  • Roo Code - A fork of Cline.
  • GitHub Copilot - In-IDE coding assistant.
  • Pieces Plugin - Interact with Pieces from VSCode.
• ⭐ Cursor - IDE with native agent integrations and compatibility with different model providers. See MCPs for possible MCP integrations for Cursor.
• IntelliJ
  • Switch2Cursor - Quickly switch from IntelliJ to Cursor.
  • Pieces Plugin - Interact with Pieces OS from IntelliJ.
  • GitHub Copilot - In-IDE coding assistant.

AI Git

• ⭐ OpenCommit - Intelligent commit messages with LLMs.

AI Web Browsers

• ⭐ Opera - A browser with several native AI tooling integrations like ChatGPT and Aria.
• ⭐ Arc - A browser with several AI features like contextual chat on a page.

AI Browser Extensions

• Pieces Web Extension - Interact with Pieces and web content in your web browser.

AI Productivity

• Obsidian - End-to-end encrypted note taking service.
  • Pieces Plugin - A plugin to allow interaction with Pieces OS.
  • mcp-obsidian - Interact with your Obsidian notes from Claude via MCP.
• 💡 Fabric - Standardized components for prompting AI to interact with information.

AI Image Generation

• Ideogram - Generate images from text.

AI Research

• ⭐ Perplexity - AI-powered search engine and research assistant.
• 💡 Fabric - Standardized components for prompting AI to interact with information.

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