Guides to AI coding agents
Sourced, regularly checked guides to choosing and safely using AI coding agents, written by the people building Darce.
Agent database incidentsA sourced timeline of AI agents deleting production databases (Replit, Claude Code with Terraform, Cursor at PocketOS) and the guardrails that prevent it.Agent checkpointsHow Claude Code checkpoints, Cursor restore checkpoint, Gemini CLI checkpointing, Codex, Cline, OpenCode and Aider undo work, and what each can't restore.Best CLI agentsBest CLI coding agent for you, October 2026: Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, Pi, Darce and more compared on price, undo and models.Claude Code + other modelsRun Claude Code with DeepSeek, GLM, OpenRouter, LiteLLM, claude-code-router or a local model: what Anthropic supports, and a simpler multi-model path.Cursor alternativesBest Cursor alternatives in 2026: Copilot, Zed, Cline, Kilo Code and Antigravity as editors; Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode and Darce in the terminal.OpenCode alternativesThe best OpenCode alternatives in 2026: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kilo CLI, Crush, Aider, Gemini CLI and Darce, compared on models, pricing and local models.Sandbox vs undoHow the Claude Code sandbox, Codex and Gemini CLI sandboxes and dev containers work, Windows and WSL support, what they miss, and why you need undo.What is a coding agentWhat is a coding agent? An AI that reads your code, edits files, runs tests and checks results in a loop. How it works, the kinds, the risks, how to pick.YOLO modeWhat claude --dangerously-skip-permissions really does, Claude Code permission modes, Codex and Gemini YOLO flags, real incidents, and how to recover.Claude Code rewindWhat Claude Code's /rewind restores, what it can't undo (shell commands), and how to recover it.