Best Developer Tools products of the month August 2026

Shepherd Terminal

A persistent terminal for Codex and Claude side by side

Shepherd is a terminal built for running coding agents across multiple tabs, panes, and even remote machines. It keeps your terminal sessions alive even if you close the app, so you never lose progress. You can see exactly which agents are working and which are waiting, and you can jump back into their files and changes without missing a beat. Agents are aware of the current Shepherd context, can control tabs and panes, and gather feedback through browser reviews. Meanwhile, you get a real-time view of every agent's status.

Annotate

Screen recording as prompts

Annotate-8 is a tool that lets you record your screen while drawing and talking to explain exactly what you need. Once you are done, it sends that recording to an AI agent to handle the task. It works perfectly with coding assistants like Claude or Cursor, and because it runs locally, your data stays private and free to use.

AgentSky

Any harness, any LLM — cloud-hosted agents on demand.

Agentsky provides managed AI agents as a service, allowing you to launch long-horizon models like Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, or OpenClaw with a single click. We handle the full history and recovery processes for you. You can easily access your agents through popular platforms like WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Slack, and the web, or integrate them directly via our API or CLI.

mpai

Make existing Codex and Claude Code sessions multiplayer

MPAI offers an open-source way to collaborate in the terminal using Codex and Claude Code. You can join a teammate's native session from another Mac while keeping the full context and identifying yourself clearly. The system uses Tailscale for private connections, ensuring that the host machine always maintains control.

ngrok AI Gateway

One private gateway for every AI model

The ngrok AI Gateway serves as a unified interface for all your AI models, whether you are using public providers, custom endpoints, or your own self-hosted solutions. By using a single key and URL, you can route requests across OpenAI, Anthropic, and local models while benefiting from built-in observability, access control, and automatic fallbacks. Because your private models connect through the secure ngrok network, they remain protected and isolated from the public internet while still being easily accessible to your applications.

Keystroke

Build powerful AI agents & workflows

Keystroke is a complete platform designed for building and managing powerful AI agents. You simply describe the agent you need, and our system handles the building, tool connection, testing, and deployment to a shared workspace. These agents can be equipped with long-term memory, custom workflows, triggers, and approval processes, all while connecting to over 1,000 popular integrations. We are a YC-backed, open-source project, and you can get started for free today with 20 dollars in included credits.

Inferock Bench

An independent receipt for every LLM API call

Inferock-bench is a local proxy that sits between your app and OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or OpenRouter shaped calls. It captures per-call token usage, failures, and retries, then generates an independent receipt showing what you were billed and how much you're actually overpaying for. It gives you a clear breakdown of your actual costs versus what you expected, so you can spot hidden charges or inefficiencies. With this tool, you get full visibility into your API spending, helping you optimize your usage and save money. It's like having a financial auditor for your AI calls, ensuring you only pay for what you use.

Agnost AI

Catch agent failures your evals miss

Agnost AI analyzes the conversations between your users and your production AI agents to uncover silent failures, agent behavior drift, hallucinations, user frustration, hidden feature requests, and churn signals. It groups these issues into recurring patterns, shows you the exact users and conversations behind each insight, and turns them into evals and fixes you can act on.

Openbase

Manage your team of AI agents by voice, from anywhere

Openbase lets you manage your team of AI coding agents entirely by voice, so you can work effectively without being glued to a desk or a screen. While agents can work in the background, supervising them usually forces you back to a laptop, but Openbase removes that friction. You can dispatch tasks, guide agents in the middle of a project, and approve code changes just by talking. The agents handle the heavy lifting like writing code, controlling your computer, and managing PRs, while you stay in control from your phone. It works with various providers and syncs to your machine, letting you pick up exactly where you left off when you return to your desk.

Snapdown

Turn anything on your Mac screen into clean Markdown

Snapdown makes it easy to capture parts of your Mac screen and convert them into structured Markdown. Unlike traditional OCR tools that flatten text, Snapdown preserves your headings, lists, and tables. You can use a simple shortcut to capture content and paste it anywhere, all while keeping your data stored locally on your Apple silicon device.