Editors helped with characters, IDEs with projects, AI IDEs with a single edit. An ADE — Agentic Development Environment — works in units of tasks: hand several to several agents at once, and come back to results that finished while you were away.
Bolting AI onto an editor does not make it an ADE. These are the properties that separate a tool you watch one step at a time from an environment you hand work to. They are exactly the columns of the table below.
Not a pile of windows — several tasks running together on one screen, each with a visible state.
Each task gets its own worktree or sandbox, so parallel runs never step on each other's files.
It keeps going without an approval at every step, then notifies you or picks up the next job.
Recurring work — every morning, every Friday — starts at its time with nobody at the keyboard.
Away from the desk you can still see progress, queue the next instruction and read the result.
Not locked to one vendor's model — pick Claude Code, Codex and others per task.
Each generation made the unit a person handles directly one step bigger.
Vim · Emacs · Sublime · VS Code. Fast and light, but what to do next lives entirely in your head.
JetBrains · Visual Studio · Xcode. Build, debugger and refactoring brought under one roof.
Cursor · Kiro · Devin Desktop · Copilot. You pair with AI inside one window — and you are still watching.
Hand work to several agents at once, let each run isolated to the end, and come back to review results.
HyperTeams is hereAcross: who does the work. Up: how many things run at once. No dot was placed by hand — each position is computed from its row in the table below.
Position = category baseline + unattended · scheduled (across), parallel · isolation · phone (up).
✓ yes · ◐ partly (extension, paid plan or with conditions) · — no. Every cell follows the product's official docs.
| Product | Parallel | Isolation | Unattended | Scheduled | Phone | Any agent | Form | Runs on | Price | ADE score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The ADE that runs the Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity you already use — several at once, on your machine, followed from your phone. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Web | Your machine | Free + paid | 6 | |
Vim / NeovimEditor A modal editor in the terminal. AI arrives through plugins. | No | No | No | No | No | No | Terminal | Your machine | Free | 0 | Source |
GNU EmacsEditor The extensible editor you reshape with elisp. | No | No | No | No | No | No | Desktop | Your machine | Free | 0 | Source |
Sublime TextEditor A fast, light commercial text editor. | No | No | No | No | No | No | Desktop | Your machine | Paid | 0 | Source |
VS CodeEditor The most widely used free editor. Agents arrive as extensions. | No | No | No | No | No | No | Desktop | Your machine | Free | 0 | Source |
ZedEditor A fast collaborative editor in Rust. External agents plug in over ACP. | Yes | Partly | No | No | No | Yes | Desktop | Your machine | Free + paid | 2.5 | Source |
IntelliJ, PyCharm and the per-language IDE family, with AI Assistant and Junie. | Partly | No | No | No | No | Yes | Desktop | Your machine | Free + paid | 1.5 | Source |
The standard IDE for Windows and .NET. | No | No | No | No | No | No | Desktop | Your machine | Free + paid | 0 | Source |
XcodeIDE The IDE for Apple platforms, with a built-in coding assistant. | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Desktop | Your machine | Free | 1 | Source |
The official Android IDE, with a built-in Gemini agent mode. | No | No | No | No | No | No | Desktop | Your machine | Free | 0 | Source |
EclipseIDE The long-standing open-source Java IDE platform. | No | No | No | No | No | No | Desktop | Your machine | Free | 0 | Source |
CursorAI IDE An AI editor built on VS Code that launches cloud agents in parallel. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Desktop | Both | Free + paid | 5 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
Devin Desktop (Windsurf)AI IDE Cognition's AI editor that succeeded Windsurf, with an agent command center built in. | Yes | Partly | Yes | Partly | Partly | Yes | Desktop | Both | Free + paid | 4.5 | Source |
KiroAI IDE AWS's spec-driven AI IDE, now with a CLI and cloud sandboxes. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | No | Desktop | Both | Free + paid | 4.5 | Source |
TraeAI IDE ByteDance's AI IDE. | Partly | Partly | Partly | No | No | No | Desktop | Both | Free + paid | 1.5 | Source |
Claude CodeCoding agent Anthropic's coding agent — an engine HyperTeams drives, with its own parallel and scheduled runs. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Terminal | Both | Paid | 5 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
OpenAI Codex CLICoding agent OpenAI's open-source coding-agent CLI — one of the engines HyperTeams drives. | Partly | Partly | Partly | No | Partly | No | Terminal | Both | Free + paid | 2 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
Gemini CLICoding agent Google's open-source terminal agent. | No | Partly | Partly | No | No | No | Terminal | Your machine | Free + paid | 1 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
AiderCoding agent A terminal pair programmer that works through git. | No | No | Partly | No | No | No | Terminal | Your machine | Free | 0.5 | Source |
OpenCodeCoding agent An open-source, model-agnostic terminal agent. | Partly | Partly | Partly | No | No | No | Terminal | Your machine | Free + paid | 1.5 | Source |
AmpCoding agent The coding agent from the company spun out of Sourcegraph. | Partly | Partly | Partly | No | Partly | No | Terminal | Both | Free + paid | 2 | Source |
ClineCoding agent An open-source coding agent that started as a VS Code extension. | Yes | Yes | Partly | Partly | No | Partly | Extension | Your machine | Free + paid | 3.5 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
WarpADE Started as a terminal; now an open-source (Apr 2026) Agentic Development Environment. | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | Desktop | Both | Free + paid | 5 | Source |
Google's agent-first development environment with an agent manager up front. | Yes | Partly | Partly | Yes | No | No | Desktop | Your machine | Free + paid | 3 | Source |
Codex appADE OpenAI's Codex desktop app, with worktrees, automations and a review queue. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | No | Desktop | Both | Free + paid | 4.5 | Source |
JetBrains' standalone ADE, driving Claude, Codex, Gemini and Junie over ACP. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Partly | Yes | Desktop | Both | Paid | 5 | Source |
ConductorADE A Mac app that runs coding agents in parallel, one worktree each. | Yes | Yes | Partly | Partly | Partly | Yes | Desktop | Both | Free + paid | 4.5 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
SupersetADE A desktop ADE that runs many coding agents, one worktree each. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Desktop | Both | Free + paid | 6 | Source |
EmdashADE A desktop app that calls itself an open-source ADE, with SSH remotes. | Yes | Yes | Partly | No | No | Yes | Desktop | Both | Free | 3.5 | Source |
OrcaADE An open-source desktop app that gives each agent a worktree and compares results. | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes | Yes | Desktop | Both | Free | 5.5 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
PaseoADE An open-source 'control plane for coding agents': one daemon, with desktop, phone and web clients. | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes | Yes | Desktop | Your machine | Free + paid | 5.5 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
Stravu's successor to Crystal: sessions per worktree, with an iOS companion. | Yes | Yes | Partly | No | Yes | Yes | Desktop | Your machine | Free + paid | 4.5 | Source |
Vibe KanbanADE An open-source board that attaches an agent to each card — now community-maintained. | Yes | Yes | Partly | No | Partly | Yes | Web | Your machine | Free | 4 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
Claude SquadADE A terminal app that runs several agents with tmux and git worktrees. | Yes | Yes | Partly | No | No | Yes | Terminal | Your machine | Free | 3.5 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
SculptorADE Imbue's app that runs agents in parallel inside containers. | Yes | Yes | Partly | No | No | Partly | Desktop | Your machine | Free | 3 | Source |
GitHub CopilotCloud agent GitHub's Copilot cloud agent: takes an issue, opens a PR, and can run Claude and Codex too. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Web | Cloud | Paid | 6 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
DevinCloud agent Cognition's autonomous software engineer, working in cloud VMs. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | No | Web | Cloud | Free + paid | 4.5 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
Google JulesCloud agent Google's asynchronous agent that takes a GitHub repo and works in the cloud. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | No | Web | Cloud | Free + paid | 4.5 | Source |
Codex cloudCloud agent Codex running tasks in parallel in OpenAI's cloud sandboxes. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | No | Web | Cloud | Paid | 4.5 | Source |
FactoryCloud agent An agent platform whose Droids take work from issue to PR. | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Terminal | Both | Paid | 3 | Source |
OpenHandsCloud agent An open-source agent platform that runs locally, in containers or in the cloud. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | No | Web | Both | Free + paid | 4.5 | 1:1 comparisonSource |
The ADE that runs the Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity you already use — several at once, on your machine, followed from your phone.
A modal editor in the terminal. AI arrives through plugins.
The extensible editor you reshape with elisp.
A fast, light commercial text editor.
The most widely used free editor. Agents arrive as extensions.
A fast collaborative editor in Rust. External agents plug in over ACP.
IntelliJ, PyCharm and the per-language IDE family, with AI Assistant and Junie.
The standard IDE for Windows and .NET.
As of 2026-09-27
What each category does best, and where it stops. Most of them stand side by side rather than replacing each other.
＋Light, fast and everywhere. Muscle memory and a tuned config are the productivity.－A person decides and types everything, in order. There is no notion of running several jobs at once.
＋Build, debugger, static analysis and refactoring in one place. Still the best way to understand a big codebase.－One window, one project, one person. Even with an AI assistant it works only while you watch.
＋From autocomplete to agent mode, the fastest way to land a single change.－The editor window is still the protagonist. Close it and work stops; handing off many jobs means a cloud plan.
＋The engine that actually reads, edits and runs commands — the very worker an ADE directs.－One session per window. Open several and you have to remember which one is waiting on you.
＋Runs several agents in isolation at once and brings their results to one screen for review.－Most assume one machine with you at the desk — how far unattended, scheduled and phone go differs by product.
＋Runs with your computer switched off and goes from issue to PR on its own.－Your code and history go to the vendor's servers, and the agent and model are theirs too.
Same label, different ground. What each does best, where it stops, and how to run it side by side with HyperTeams.
All six in one product, with the agents you already use, on your own machine.
5,161 real production turns, judged by Jev — hyperteams-system README
Agents run in your folders and instructions and results never leave that computer. Nothing moves to a cloud sandbox.
Choose Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex or Antigravity per task — whichever you have installed, on the subscription you already pay for.
In full-autonomy mode a judge grades every turn; failures get fixed and partial work gets continued.
It keeps running with the window closed, starts on a schedule, and pings your phone when done.
Keep your editor. HyperTeams runs the agent team next to it.
HyperTeams
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