The field guide

The best AI tools available today.

AI products, platforms, and developer tools organized by the work they help you do. Evaluated by experts.

Current field guide

8 solutions

Hands-on harness

Pi Agent

Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness that can be adapted with extensions, skills, prompts, and themes.

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Researched product

Claude Cowork

Claude Cowork works across the files, tools, and browser sessions a user selects, then brings the finished work back for review.

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Researched platform

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock provides managed access to multiple model families and the AWS services needed to build AI applications and agents.

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Researched platform

OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides one API for models hosted by many different providers, with routing and fallback options built in.

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Hands-on platform

LM Studio

LM Studio provides a desktop application and local API for downloading, running, and building with open models.

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Hands-on product

macncheese

macncheese is a free Apple Silicon application for generating and editing images locally, without node graphs or cloud processing.

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Watchlist harness

Herdr

Herdr is an open-source runtime for organizing coding agents across projects and machines while keeping their terminal sessions alive.

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