Most AI coding tools are an editor or a single agent. o8 is the orchestration and governance layer above them — here’s how it lines up against the tools you already know.
Cursor is an AI-first code editor; o8 is the orchestration and governance layer above your repo. One is where you write code; the other runs a fleet of agents that do.
Devin is a hosted autonomous engineer that works in its own cloud; o8 is local-first and runs a fleet of agents on your machine, under a gate you control.
Claude Code is one capable coding agent in your terminal; o8 runs it — alongside Codex, Gemini, and opencode — as agents in a governed fleet. o8 is the room; Claude Code is a runtime in it.
Aider is an open-source AI pair programmer in your terminal; o8 is a multi-agent control room with a review gate. One agent at your prompt, versus a governed fleet.