-**CLI coding agents are the orchestration layer for agentic development.** They read and change files, run commands, and work naturally with terminals, SSH, worktrees, and scripts. They are distinct from IDE-bound assistants — today led by GitHub Copilot's agent mode in VS Code and Zed's agent panel, alongside Cursor and Windsurf — though the boundary keeps blurring: Copilot and Cursor ship their own CLIs, and Zed hosts CLI agents like Claude Code via ACP and terminal threads.
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