Get Yourself Prepared Before You Generate

Before we jump into the actual VSCode Extensions and the tools themselves, let’s talk about some fundamentals. AI can accelerate the best engineers, but it can also amplify chaos. The difference often comes down to one thing: intentionality.

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.

The Foundation for Success:

• Have a plan. First, you need a plan, and you don’t need to go into complete waterfall mode, but plan at least one step ahead, and you can even use AI to help you plan before you build.

• Be organized. AI agents, like humans, perform better when they can navigate a well-organized workspace. Keep your project’s structure clear—folders, files, and architecture.

• Be opinionated. Be opinionated about your stack and patterns. When the model understands your tools and conventions, it produces more consistent, desirable results.

• Automate checking coding standards. And if you have coding standards, automate checking them. Linting, type checks, and CI pipelines can automatically catch and correct issues, even for AI-generated code. Many AI coding agents can observe these results and self-correct on the next run.

The Power of the Tetrate Agent Router Service

For your AI Agent to perform well, it needs access to inference models, and this is where you can use the Agent Router Service. It acts as the connector for your AI-assisted development agents, providing access to inference models from multiple providers in one place. It allows you to control costs, set up resiliency and fallback options, and more.

It’s a SaaS solution that equips your coding agents with the inference (the LLMs) they need to execute work.

Sign up at router.tetrate.ai — and if you register with a business email, you’ll get $5 in credits to start experimenting.

One Agent Router Subscription, Four Different Coding Agents You Can Use

Let’s look at some of the most popular developer tools you can use with the Agent Router Service, and how to get the most out of them—four different Coding Agent tools, using one single subscription for AI power through the Agent Router Service.

Continue

Continue is an open-source coding Agent solution that supports you in both “human-in-the-loop” workflows and asynchronous continuous workflows.

• Works inside VS Code for in-editor assistance.
• Offers a CLI for async or batch tasks.
• Integrates easily into CI/CD workflows.

Cline

Cline is the open-source foundation of Roo Code and KiloCode. It offers:

• A VS Code extension for daily AI-assisted coding.
• A CLI for running workflows —great for async or background tasks. This is a recently added feature, and we look forward to seeing what else will be coming here.
• Markdown-based workflow definitions for repeatability.

Pro tip: Define two modes for your agent —Plan and Act —and establish global and workspace rules. Clear boundaries lead to better results and fewer misfires.

Roo Code

Roo Code extends Cline with more configuration reuse, modes, and “task-first” design. It includes:

• Configuration Profiles and Modes make setup easier and allow reusing model configurations with modes specialized for specific work, such as Planning, Coding, Architecting, and even Writing.
• Orchestrator Mode is a specific and powerful mode for breaking complex work into smaller steps.
• Markdown-defined tasks, triggered by simple slash commands, allow automation of repeatable work.

---
description: "PR description generation"
---

Based on the edits I've done in this git branch compared to the main branch, summarize a short pull request description for me.

KiloCode

KiloCode builds on Roo Code and Cline, combining their best features and adding:

• A Memory Bank to store persistent project context (architecture, stack, etc.).
• A Prompt Enhancer button—great for learning how to write better prompts interactively.
• Modes, tasks, and workflows similar to Roo and Cline, knowing you aren’t missing any of those features

Conclusion: Build With a Goal, Have a Plan

The key point is that AI can significantly enhance your workflow, but this improvement depends on your intentional design and understanding of the tools you are using. These tools are more powerful than you might realize, and this summary only begins to explore the possibilities they offer.

Using the Tetrate Agent Router Service allows you to experiment with and switch between various VSCode extensions and model providers, all while receiving a single bill for your AI usage. The future of software development isn’t AI vs. humans, it’s humans building with AI.

Get started with the Tetrate Agent Router Service today, sign up for a free account and start building with AI.