Figure out if ECC fits

Aider is a terminal-based AI pair-programmer with first-class git integration. Kodelyth ECC is a toolkit that augments pair-programmers with 71 specialist agents, MCP server, memory, and token savings. Install ECC into Aider rather than choose between them.

Cline is an AI agent harness that lives in VS Code. Kodelyth ECC is a toolkit that augments agent harnesses — including Cline — with 71 specialist agents, MCP server, memory, and token savings. Use both, not one or the other.

Continue.dev is a config-driven AI coding assistant for VS Code + JetBrains with first-class local model support. Kodelyth ECC is a catalog toolkit of 71 specialist agents + MCP + token savings. Honest comparison of the layers, with the integration path spelled out.

Cursor Rules is a flat text file of always-on instructions. Kodelyth ECC is 71 specialist agents + MCP server + token savings + memory. They solve different problems at different layers — and ECC installs cleanly into Cursor alongside your existing rules.

OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) is an open-source autonomous software engineer that owns its own agent loop. Kodelyth ECC is a toolkit that augments agent harnesses in your IDE. They solve different problems; this page is honest about whether they can be used together today.

Plain Claude Code is a complete AI coding environment. Kodelyth ECC is a free toolkit that layers 71 specialist agents, a universal MCP server, local memory, and 55-65% token savings on top — without replacing what Claude Code already does well.

Eight AI code-review options ranked by what they actually do, not how they market themselves: GitHub Copilot review, Cursor review, CodeRabbit, Qodo (Codium), Claude Code /review, SonarQube IDE, Greptile, and Kodelyth ECC's code-reviewer agent. Honest tradeoffs, no sponsor bias.

Nine AI debugging assistants in 2026 rated by what actually matters for debugging: root-cause rigor, evidence requirements, integration with real stack traces, live-process support, OSS, cost. Kodelyth ECC's debug-detective + /debug-blitz, Cursor Bugbot, Claude Code debugging, Pythagora, Trunk, Replit, JetBrains AI debug, Cursor debug, Sentry AI.

Ten truly-free AI coding agents in 2026 rated by what free actually means: unlimited vs rate-limited, local vs cloud, model choice, open source, and token economics. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Continue.dev, Aider, Cline, Roo Code, OpenHands, Kiro, and Kodelyth ECC.

Ten MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers worth installing in 2026, with honest notes on each: Kodelyth ECC, GitHub, Filesystem, Postgres, Stripe, Brave Search, Puppeteer, Slack, SQLite, and codebase-memory-mcp. Scored on free/paid, local/remote, language coverage, and auth surface.

Complete reference for autonomous agent orchestration: the five hard problems (decomposition, dispatch, integration, verification, budget), the tokenless state machine pattern, dependency DAGs with cycle detection, git merge-tree conflict checking, resumable runs, and honest comparison to LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, and OpenHands.

Complete reference for codebase AST knowledge graphs: how tree-sitter builds them across 158 languages, why structural queries beat grep by 99% on token cost, the three queries that cover most practical use, Hybrid LSP semantic types, honest limits (staleness, type-resolution coverage), and when grep is still right.

Where tokens actually go in an AI coding session, and the three levers that move the bill: filtering tool output before it reaches the model, compressing replies, and matching model tier to task. With a real 1,285-command ledger showing 64.1% input reduction.

A complete reference for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers: what MCP is, how to build one, how to consume one, the six IDEs that auto-wire today, honest tradeoffs vs plugin ecosystems, security + transport patterns, and when MCP is the wrong answer.

Complete reference for building a toolkit around Claude Code: the six primitives Anthropic exposes (agents, skills, slash commands, hooks, rules, MCP), the directory layout, how settings.json composes, intent routing, Memory Core integration, token-savings wiring, and when to extend each primitive.