MCP & Tooling
Coding Agent
Also: AI coding assistant, agentic coding tool
An AI tool that reads a codebase, edits files and runs commands to complete programming tasks with limited supervision.
In more detail
Unlike autocomplete, a coding agent takes multi-step actions: it installs packages, runs tests, commits and sometimes deploys. It works with the developer's file access and credentials, so it deserves the same governance as any other privileged user on the machine.