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Best companion tools for AI coding agents

Running Claude Code, Codex or Copilot on real work raises the same four problems: what leaves your machine, how a team shares sessions, how agents get their integrations, and what infrastructure sits underneath. These four tools each answer one of them.

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1. shim-cli

For knowing what leaves your machine

shim-cli runs locally next to Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI and VS Code, inspects what your coding agent sends, finds secrets and personal data in the outbound content, and masks them where the client allows it. It also shows what each session sent and cost. Apache-2.0, installs in a minute with uv on macOS and Linux.

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2. Pairon

For teams sharing agent sessions

Pairon makes AI coding multiplayer: teams using Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode direct agents in one shared room, keep project context together, and review changes across connected computers. Sessions can be replayed for asynchronous review. Free for two people and one project.

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3. Craft Agents

For agents that configure themselves

Craft Agents is an open-source interface for working with agents from Claude, ChatGPT, OpenRouter and local models. Tell the agent to add a tool like Linear and it finds the public API or MCP server, reads the docs, fetches credentials and sets it up itself - no hand-edited config. Connects via browser, API, MCP or local filesystem.

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4. TensorZero

For the infrastructure underneath

TensorZero is an open-source stack for industrial-grade LLM applications: a unified gateway to every major model provider with sub-millisecond latency, plus observability that captures inferences, metrics and human feedback for programmatic analysis and optimization. It suits teams standardizing agent infrastructure without vendor lock-in.

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